There is not any in product support for Whats New Pages, or any sort of Details urls, which we can set from Balrog for Desktop.
So I think we're left with outreach for these cases. Generally speaking Nightly users are a substantially small subset of our users, and the uptake counts on Nightly have been substantially low as well (that is uptake for users who get Balrog queries) -- I think the fact that approximately half of queries even checked balrog *once* using the current trunk version in the timeframe [out of all queries] is pretty telling, and coupled with the idea that this is Nightly and not Release/Beta I'm less concerned. I haven't heard of a reason to hold out on this from any of the product owners for this reason, and can revert the code if there is a need for product support of such a thing, in which case I can advise on the balrog side, but would need a few coordinated efforts to do (Some website/translation work for the notice, some product work to support the new param and to cause it to notify users in some way, etc) I personally feel the effort is better spent on improving tooling going forward, and informing via a SUMO article if enough people ask about it and via commentary in bugs. (I also created a FAQ on the RFC for how to move forward if you did sideload, to try and mitigate the problems this could cause). I'm open to other ways that I can facilitate user notification though. ~Justin Wood (Callek) On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:32 PM Jeff Gilbert <jgilb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Did we figure out how to tell users they're not going to get updates > anymore? I don't see a resolution in that PR. > > This used to be the only way to get Nightly, so I'd expect long time > users to be surprised. I only stopped using the downloaded APK last > year, I think. > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:04 AM Justin Wood <jw...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > To follow up here, this is now landed on autoland, once this merges > Fennec > > Nightly will no longer find new updates when it was installed outside of > > Google Play. > > > > See linked document from thread for further insight. > > > > ~Justin Wood (Callek) > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 3:36 PM Justin Wood <jw...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am intending to stop offering Fennec updates when Fennec itself is > > > installed manually instead of via the Google Play store. > > > > > > More details are at > https://github.com/mozilla-releng/releng-rfcs/pull/13 > > > or in rendered form at > > > > https://github.com/Callek/releng-rfcs/blob/no_fennec_balrog/rfcs/0013-disable-fennec-balrog.md > > > > > > Please contain (most) comments to the markdown on github. > > > > > > I intend to implement this on autoland/central as of Feb 5, 2019 and > allow > > > it to ride the trains to release. > > > > > > Thank You, > > > ~Justin Wood (Callek) > > > Release Engineer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
