Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-08-27

Channel Meeting Details

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

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573
• +17207072699,,266532573# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

• marcia, RyanVM, philipp, Aryx, telin, tania, dveditz, Ritu, dbolter

Schedule Update

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

• 69.0 RC1 live @ 100% on Beta update channel
  • WNP testing on release-localtest completed by QA

• Fennec 68.1b8 live @ 100% on Google Play
  • 68.1 RC gtb tomorrow?

• DevEdition 70.0b1 build3 underway, should be live on Aurora later today
  • Delayed due to langpack bustage during build promotion
  • QA signed off on build2, only difference vs. build3 is langpack fix

• Desktop 68.1esr RC is ready for QA

• Desktop 60.9esr still waiting on a rebased patch before gtb

• Final merge day is Monday, 2-Sep. Also a US holiday.
• Go-live is Tuesday, 3-Sep.

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566855 landed 5 days ago. We should keep an eye on single-installation crashes with orphaned minidump
• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576264 to account for a higher than normal instance of 0 install crashes

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.61, Thursday 6.85

• New Core | Graphics Layers crash, small volume https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576767
• Font related crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576846
• New DOM | Quota Manager crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576593
• Small volume Web Replay crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576927
• Latest nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q3

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.96, Thursday 3.97

[69.0b16]

• Crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetD2D1::CreateBrushForPattern: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576372 - 0.8% of tab crashes
  • newly regressing in b16
• Increase in [@ OOM | small] crashes containing memory reports in Firefox 69 - filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575950 for investigation
• Crash in [@ shutdownhang | nsThread::Shutdown | nsNotifyAddrListener::Shutdown]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576386 - 0.4% of browser crashes
• Crash in [@ nsGlobalWindowInner::ClearDocumentDependentSlots]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576452 - 0.3% of tab crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.08, Thursday 2.11

• Top macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201401 has a tryserver build. Awaiting feedback from those that can repro
• Nothing much of note for release

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.

Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 82.55, Thursday 82.83

• Fix for top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575605 looks good on nightly so far

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 56.28, Thursday 56.31

• Nothing specific to call out for beta

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.50, Thursday 19.53

• SprintLiteral continues to be the top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461724. Investigation and outreach continuing
• #3 crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 is quite high on 68.
• #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801617 has accumulated almost 24K in crash volume

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• #2 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569312. Affects Fennec as well, but the stacks are different

QA

Nightly

• Nightly Test Reports have been shared today (except for Password Generation on Desktop, to be sent this week), features are stable, no critical issues observed

Aurora / Dev Edition

[Read Only]

• QA sent Green sign off for Firefox DevEdition 70.0b1 (build 2)

Beta

[Read Only]

• Manual QA signed off Green on Firefox 69.0 (build2) testing, found one new issue - 1576894

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [read-only] Android 10 supposed to get released on September 3rd (Fx 69 release date)

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)