Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-10-13

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

jcristau, aryx, pascal, telin, pbasu, philipp, jchaupitre,taniam, kbrosnan, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 81.0.2 shipped at 100%
  • fixes network errors on twitter.com

• 82.0
  • build1 is on the beta channel
  • build2 will be needed to generate partials from 81.0.2
    • planning to also fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667931 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670961

• 78.4.0esr gtb today

• some issues with hg.mozilla.org TLS certificate renewal and pins

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.72, crash incidence: 1.87%, mc1 summary score: 4.15 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.81, crash incidence: 1.93%, mc1 summary score: 4.23

• Top startup crash https://crash-stop-addon.herokuapp.com/sumup.html?s=mozilla::interceptor::WindowsDllDetourPatcher%3CT%3E::CreateTrampoline yesterday on Windows 10, fixed by the backout of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588245
• Spiking telemetry crash on macos https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670348

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 1.64, crash incidence: 1.70%, mc1 summary score: 5.09 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.68, crash incidence: 1.44%, mc1 summary score: 5.08

• looking pretty good on 82.0b9

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.30, crash incidence: 0.94 %, mc1 summary score: 2.06 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.41, crash incidence: 0.96%, mc1 summary score: 2.23

• No new crashers

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• JIT crash on nightly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670983

QA

Nightly

• Nightly Feature test reports are being published
  • Couple of features received yellow rating/discovered major defects: Modernized Print UI, Desktop zooming on touch devices, WebGL Remoting, Improve WebRTC UI
• Following features are yet to be ready for testing (no nightly testing was requested)
  • • 1) Uninstaller ping[Search] and 2) Top Sites Remote Settings

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Pre-release feature sign-offs were completed
  • For Print Modernization, a test report was shared as QA conducted ON and OFF mode testing
    • Details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7Tily-N5BA6I64gVrO8ypu25y2Q9GC0hCHnroFzXKw/edit

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 82 is looking good from a feature persepctive. No outstanding challenged or at risk items!
  • Modernized print UI is now considered 'On track' as a decision was made to ship an experiment to a small subset of the Release population
• Firefox 83 has 3 challenged items
  • [challenged] Modernized Print UI, Phase 2 - reduced scope has helped some here but work overall remains challenged to land before soft code freeze on Thursday
  • [challenged] Move Search TopSites into Remote Settings remains challenged. Team is hopeful they will land before soft code freeze. Go/No-Go scheduled for tomorrow.
  • [challenged] Improve QB (V2) Search Discovery : Search Shortcuts remains challenged. Team is hopeful they will land before soft code freeze. Go/No-Go scheduled for tomorrow.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

ETP introducing a new feature with 83 beta for testing.

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

[tania] Fx81 post mortem - do we have a date finalized?