Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-01-29

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

Attendees

marcia, RyanVM, philipp, pascal, jcristau, Tom,tania, Ritu, Sebastian, Thomas

Schedule Update

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

• 65.0 is live @ 25% on Desktop & Fennec \m/

• 66.0b3 is live @ 50% (Desktop), 100% (DevEdition), 10% (Fennec)

• Nightly version number bumped to 67 yesterday

• ESR60.5.0 is live at 100%

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Proposals for Mission Control work in 2019
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q3MpW5Z11zrslYPUTdu75bqt3aXJ0W850UK3rSjhbfM/edit#heading=h.s2vszop770j3
• MC Bug filed
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523437
  • https://product-details.mozilla.org/1.0/firefox_versions.json

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.40, Thursday 3.60

• Nightly is now 67. Early 67 top crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521368
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521370
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513458
• Regular Nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q1

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 1.25, Thursday 1.32

66.0b2

• crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetD2D1::CreateBrushForPattern: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521368 - 20% of content crashes
• crash in mozilla::psm::TransportSecurityInfo::Read: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513458 - 11% of browser crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 1.67, Thursday 1.69

65.0rc2:

• tab crashes in Ndr64pClientInit (affecting users of windows 10 v1809 N versions): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521370
  • should reach out to MS about this
• fix for shutdown crashes caused by webextensions changing the search engine didn't look successful: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493770
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520483
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516425

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: 24.33, Thursday 24.85

• • Too early for anything 65 yet
  • Nothing new in the top 20 for 64.0.2

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 31.47, Thursday 31.99

• • 66.0b3 just shipped, so no data yet

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 60.06, Thursday 64.35

• • Still early for 67 Nightly data: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product=FennecAndroid&version=67.0a1
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521158 was in the top 3 crashes for 66a1. Not actionable without STR

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

• some users dislike https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503022
  • maybe fixed in 66 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516556 ?

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)