Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-10-28
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
Contents
Attendees
- marcia, saptarshi, RyanVM, lizzard, tania, philipp, Thomas, Ritu, Aryx
Schedule Update
Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard
- May build 70.0.1 by Wednesday
- another driver: Turning off LSNG https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591374
- 71.0b5 +68.3b2 shipped
- 71.0b6 needs some help shipping on Friday, Holiday in France
- Ryan and Liz can take care of it
Release metrics
Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SCFDvnKGHSd7BvAvIAXA135IQnp0W4Mik9Y-jgImaJ8/edit#gid=30214901
- Stability
- Performance
- Security
- Functionality
- We have a new category called "Accessibility" for release criteria metrics in Beta71
Off-train releases
Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html
Stability
- Reporting stability data using our new dashboard https://metrics.mozilla.com/public/sguha/mc2/release.html
Nightly
Crash Rate overall 1.75 Crash Incidence overall 5.67%, Mission Control v1 rate 8.08 Last Thursday Crash Rate overall 1.80 Crash Incidence overall 4.83%, Mission Control v1 rate 15.90
- #6 overall Core Networking crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590868 started in 10/23 build and has a patch
- #3 overall https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590908 is still crashing, patches up but awaiting review
- #5 overall Fission crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589342
- Webrender regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592121 was filed and is already fixed
- Small volume macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592281. Seems to be confined to 10.15
- macOS crashes when refreshing slack tab https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1583859
- Nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q4
Beta
Crash Rate overall 2.02 Crash Incidence overall 1.21%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.99 Last Thursday Crash Rate overall 3.15 Crash Incidence overall 1.21%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.43
- nothing specific to call out from the 71.0b4 crash pattern on socorro
Release
Crash Rate overall 1.45 Crash Incidence overall 1.04%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.10 Last Thursday Crash Rate overall 2.75 Crash Incidence overall 0.74%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.47 MCv2 detected in an increase in Linux content crashes as well as in increase in macOS content crashes
- New Linux spike in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591974
- Top macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591432 - 410 crashes so far on 10.9 only. Not sure if that is what MCv2 detected
- macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590895 - some mentions of issues upgrading to 10.15 - this is a browser crash
- Crash in [@ mdb_cursor_put]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538541 - 1% of browser crashes
- i left a question in the report for the assignee why we'd start seeing this now in firefox 70
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: 70.88, last Thursday 17.96
- Nothing specific to highlight for Fennec nightly
Beta
fennec beta summary score: 50.90, last Thursday 51.28
- * Nothing specific to highlight for Fennec beta
Release
fennec release summary score: 17.82, last Thursday N/A due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591072
- Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592008 for a newish crash - device and API specific
- Doing some outreach to Huawei for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587166. Volume was massive in 68.1.1 and potentially
related bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589181 affects Geckoview
Fenix/Firefox Preview
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557449 continues to be on the of the top crashes in 2.2
QA
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Action items
Mobile Stability
SUMO Report / User Advocacy
Roundtable
- (pascal) Need a backup person for 71.0b6 this Friday to push the builds (Nov 1 is a public holiday in France)
- Covered above - Ryan and Liz to take care of it
- Do we have an REO for Fx72?
- (marcia) Andrew Overholt said they have a rotation and should let us know this week
