Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-11-29

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Attendees

marcia, vlucaci, sdeiac, ppop, pascal, philipp, mlobontiuroman, abodea, tania, ioana, callek, Tom, lizzard, RyanVM, jcristau, tbabos, obotisan, mberlinger, lbialis,ohorvath, Sebastian, Ritu

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

• 64.0b14 going out today (desktop/deved)

• Monday:
  • merge beta (64) to release, merge central (65) to beta
  • gtb 64.0b15 (fennec)
  • gtb 64 rc1 (desktop)
  • gtb 65.0b1 (deved)

• as usual, RC builds as needed during the week

• tcw tomorrow to clang-format all the things

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.06, Tuesday 6.29 (may still be a bit behind on data)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509507 is a new crash, has a patch attached to the bug
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509574 was uncovered, likely due to MS Patch Day
• Filed new DOM regression, affects Mac and Linux https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511044

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.11, Tuesday 2.15

no particular concerns

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.34, Tuesday 2.37

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507737 was opened for Thunderbird, but WIn 10 Firefox crashes are noticeable in crash stats (#4 overall)
  • Need to open a new Firefox specific bug for this crash - Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511066

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 25.31, Tuesday 25.45

• • Nothing specific to call out for release

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 28.07, Tuesday 28.27

• • Nothing specific to call out for the meeting

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 45.71, Tuesday 48.24

• • Top browser crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499618 has a fix, developer is on PTO and awaiting Jan's help
  • #3 Top browser crash was reopened, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509342 since it is still occuring with the patches
  • Newly filed regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511012

QA

[Bogdan]

• Issues/Outstanding:
  • Investigated a BitDefender issue on 63. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510355 dupe of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1310629
    • could not reproduce it but found other steps. Results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LJHIx1xXLkljPlSbjqY2-lN0c8DvRNt141dkbcTbd88/edit
  • Extensive Antivirus software testing early Beta 65.

Nightly

[Brindusa]

• Fx65 pre-Beta feature sign-offs - In progress, we'll send all the reports by tomorrow EOD

[David]

• Cookie Restrictions - Pre-Beta will be missed, as the code was not fully landed yet. All the code will land by this Friday, and we will start testing next week.

Beta

[Bogdan] - read only

• Beta 64.0b13 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1300
  • Two new issues found: https://bugzil.la/1510175,1510235
  • Update tests on beta-cdntest, beta, aurora-cdntest and aurora showed no new issues: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hi-MiisaJjJ82_XNvs_GD2LJ1OI9a1gHLL4r5dd4y0k/edit

• Beta 64.0b14 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1313
  • No new issues found
  • Update tests on beta-cdntest/aurora-cdntest and showed no new issues: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HkAgXpczwzYlS7ItUY0jwzKhTyRyiI0fXq1-8O_Ptmw/edit

• Beta 64.0b12 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1296
  • No new issues found.

• Beta 64.0b13 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1303
  • No new issues found.

• Full functional round 3 (64.0b13 & 64.0b14) - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/plans/view/13962

Mobile QA

[Levi]

• Firefox 64 Beta 13 - Sign Off - GREEN Status
• Nightly 65 Pre-Check Part 3 - Sign Off - GREEN Status
• Ioana will be at Orlando as volunteer for OI but feel free to ping her for QA side too
• also Vlad Baicu from development team will be around - again - feel free to ping him if you want to know more or ask direct questions for that team