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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Sep 2016
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entry in about_flags submitted without committing the AboutFlags_-feature part in actions.xml

Project Member Reported by rkaplow@chromium.org, Apr 25 2016

Issue description

https://codereview.chromium.org/1568913003 was committed, adding an AboutFlags entry without the associated UserAction entry that was supposed to be added, see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/browser/about_flags.cc&l=522

This is unfortunate as the next person trying to add an (unrelated) action to the actions.xml got a warning about the missing AboutFlags.

Should we have a presubmit on the about_flags file verifying it is added correctly? Note that the requirement is mentioned here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/chrome/browser/about_flags.cc&l=522
 
I'm not convinced these user actions provide a lot of value. Imo, it's not very interesting how often people toggle these flags vs. how many people have them enabled on a given start up - which we can log separately in a histogram - and already do on CrOS.

Should we just stop logging these user actions?
Storing it as a histogram on startup does make more sense. The idea is to have a sense of what % of people have a given about::flag enabled, and user actions really isn't the best model for that. 

Should it be per upload instead of per-startup, or is that too heavy weight?


rkaplow@ is this issue for adding it to presumbit checks or is it only for the issue I caused and you want me to assign it to myself and fix it?
Re #3 I already landed a fix for the missing action, so nothing left to do there: https://codereview.chromium.org/1918953002/
Hmm, per upload would certainly be more immediately useful, but if we do it that way, we need to ensure it has a minimal impact on data size. This *probably* the case since I expect most users don't use about flags, but we should verify before such a change.
Status: WontFix (was: Available)
AboutFlags_ actions have been removed now, in favor of a histogram, see  crbug.com/639304 .

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