Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-09-21

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

TaniaM, philipp, RyanVM, jcristau, telin, JR Johnson, Jimm, Aryx, KimM, DougT, AndrewC, BenH,

Schedule Update

• 82.0b1 gtb in a few minutes, shipping tomorrow

• 81 rc2 ready to ship, as is 78.3esr

• fenix 81.1.1 and focus 8.8.0 at 50% on the play store, 100% tomorrow

• nightly is bumped to 83

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.80, crash incidence: 2.13%, mc1 summary score: 4.86 (thursday 5.04)

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::`anonymous namespace'::WebProgressListener::OnStateChange]
• spikes across channels, triggered by Twitter notifications
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664542
  • assigned to nika
• [@ js::jit::MaybeEnterJit]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858032
  • partially increased by warp JIT javascript engine, but still seeing crashes afterwards

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 1.80, crash incidence: 1.48%, mc1 summary score: 4.16 (thursday 4.29)

[81.0rc2]

• Crash in memcpy | nsJARInputStream::Read: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551562 - 2.7% of browser crashes
• Crash in mozilla::dom::`anonymous namespace'::WebProgressListener::OnStateChange (twitter notifications): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664542 - 1.5% of browser crashes
• Crash in mozilla::widget::WindowHook::AddMonitor: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661485 - 0.6% of browser crashes
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664843

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.28, crash incidence: 0.74%, mc1 summary score: 1.79 (thursday 1.85)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Bug 1666246 [@ profiler_register_thread] spiking badly on Fenix 80 & 81

QA

Nightly

• PI deadline for Fx83: this Friday, tracking 12 tickets

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Pioneer 82 - Waiting for tasks 1657985, 1664595 to land

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

Fx81

• [challenged] Move Search TopSites into Remote Settings - last minute issue identified not resolved during RC week. Reviewing possible options including either deferral of upcoming experiments OR a dot release in Fx81.

Fx82

• [challenged] Modernized print UI - Slipped from Fx81 (to Fx82) due to outstanding work. This was a known risk. Keeping as challenged as the work hasn't yet landed and we are heading into Fx82 Beta.
• [challenged] Improve QB (V2) Search Discovery : Search Shortcuts - Several bugs (20?) identified during dogfooding. Work through thriage of these issues. Still targeting Fx82 but may slip to Fx83.

SUMO Report

print bug in 81

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659928
  • Following up with SUMO technical writer for article, canned response, and comms to community to track volume of this issue reported post launch.
  • Draft article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gCqiHDQUy5vuzVPeT2BA8sIVK8IowtSjHX9fZpQ_bAc/edit

Roundtable & Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx79: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbzQ5QV7TpDYbyOt4gYs4Nct17A_xahhhVlWUh_QPQg/edit#
• Fx80: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gZeVExTAhpzdbingbPiBBMfstRH955ZMCyanleL6ogU/edit#