Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-04-01

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

RyanVM, abodea, Aryx, mlobontiuroman, phorea, lapahidean, JR, ebalazs, cbaica, pascal, mboldan

Schedule Update

• pwn2own next week
• no 87 dot release driver at this stage

• 88.0b6 gtb today, last early Beta
• Fenix 88.0.0-beta.3 live @ 100%

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate:1.92 (+0.03 compared to previous week), crash incidence: 1.54% (+0.06pp)

• don't trust the mc2 nightly data see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696494#c3

mc1 crash rate: 10.29 (-2.31) crashes/1k usage hours

• [@ webrender::picture::PicturePrimitive::take_context ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699854
  • became frequent on Wednesday (~15 affected installations/Nightly), aosmond needinfoed

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 2.05 (+0.79), crash incidence: 1.53% (-1.05pp)

mc1 crash rate: 7.76 (-0.88)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1700586 [@ js::frontend::CompilationStencil::instantiateStencils] is trending high
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701559 [@ core::option::expect_none_failed | webrender::render_backend::RenderBackend::update_document]

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.31(-0.07), crash incidence: 0.73% (-0.12pp)

mc1 crash rate: 1.84 (-0.24)

• topcrash in [@ JS_WrapValue] with Intel GeminiLake (UHD Graphics 600/605)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1702019
  • current theory: Microsoft rolled back microcode updates for the CPU in its march updates which increases the likelihood of a build being affected

Mobile Stability

Fenix

QA

[cbadau]

• Windows 10 21h1 testing - in progress

Nightly

[cbadau]

• Nightly 89 feature testing - in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[cbadau]

• Beta 88 feature pre-release testing - in progress
• Antivirus testing - in progress
• Regression testing round 2 - in progress

Mobile

[ebalazs]

• Firefox Beta 88.0.0-beta.1, beta.2, beta.3 - status GREEN
• [desktop] [mobile] WebRTC Nightly 89 - status GREEN

Action items

Feature Status Review

• 88 beta
  • CSV import of login data: yellow signoff with a long list of bugs, discussion ongoing

• 89 remains challenged with various MR1 features

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

fx85 notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DEpgPwFLFPdHClB1Lg7zieMMnglElfDJUyg8roUhUTs/edit#

Highlights:

• appreciated the holiday break and added 2 weeks
• stability issues in early beta were fixed in a timely fashion
• we shipped rc1, which is quite rare
• 2 dot releases
  • driver for 85.0.1 was printing related
  • driver for 85.0.2 was a deadlock in networking, we don't really know why it showed up in 85; didn't bubble up until after shipping 85.0.1

gathering fx87 notes at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ghOK0DqIzgsPiqBjLqmrzQjt9MrYOY-gTUyTKzCMDME/edit