Commit 9f484105 authored by Caitlin Fischer's avatar Caitlin Fischer Committed by Commit Bot

Update histograms/README.md's expired histogram whitelist section.

Histograms that are whitelisted because they have expired should mention
in their summaries the period for which there is incomplete data.

Change-Id: I95f4e6946a0cab3fe3b3a92557385fa11c9d8a22
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/2519398
Commit-Queue: Caitlin Fischer <caitlinfischer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIlya Sherman <isherman@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#824138}
parent a99f6d5a
......@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ the client may continue to send data for that histogram for some time after the
official expiry date so simply bumping the 'expires_after' date at HEAD may be
sufficient to resurrect it without any discontinuity. If too much time has
passed and the client is no longer sending data, it can be re-enabled via Finch:
see [Expired Histogram Whitelist](#Expired-histogram-whitelist).
see [Expired histogram allowlist](#Expired-histogram-allowlist).
Once a histogram has expired, the code that records it becomes dead code and
should be removed from the codebase along with marking the histogram definition
......@@ -400,12 +400,13 @@ notifier regularly checks all histograms across the histograms.xml files and
identifies expired or soon-to-be expired histograms. It then creates or updates
crbugs accordingly.
### Expired histogram whitelist
### Expired histogram allowlist
If a histogram expires but turns out to be useful, you can add the histogram's
name to the whitelist until the updated expiration date reaches the stable
channel. For adding a histogram to the whitelist, see the internal
documentation:
name to the allowlist until the updated expiration date reaches the stable
channel. When doing so, update the histogram's summary to document the period
during which the histogram's data is incomplete. To add a histogram to the
allowlist, see the internal documentation:
[Histogram Expiry](https://goto.google.com/histogram-expiry-gdoc).
## Testing
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