Firefox/Aurora/2011-06-21

Elevated crash level

• Christian transplanted the PGO backout today - bug 605033 - we don't have any evidence that PGO raised the overall crash rate, it moved crashes around to different signatures. Turning it off until we understand more is a good idea.
• Bug 648022 still causing some residual issues.
  • For some unknown reason we started to see an increase in volume with this crash (~200 instead of ~40) around the same day as the backout on Aurora.
  • The crashes appear for a build id prior to the backout.
  • There are a couple of those showing in the latest build so we will continue to monitor this closely.

Growing Aurora audience, phase #1

• Any additional feedback on the previously announced plan?
  • Phase 1 will continue
  • Potentially come up with more aggressive plan
  • Asa will blog and write up a proposal to convince engagement to spend

Roundtable

• Axel would like to discuss the migration procedure once more, in particular closed branches vs no-op merges. Who would want to be on that thread? (Mind filling that in the notes, I wouldn't want to call in tonight)
  • Christian suggests the best place to talk about this will be in the rapid release post-mortem, next week time TBD
• Use of beta next two weeks for Aurora confidence
• Review of Beta trackers for tracking-firefox6+
• Use of channels blog

Action Items

• Asa to do channels blog post about running different channels side-by-side
• Asa will blog and write up a proposal to convince engagement to spend
• Christian will make sure notes get posted to the channels blog
• Christian will mass modify and email for outstanding aurora patches