Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-05-03

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ReleaseCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

lmandel, philipp, kmoir, milan, jorge, marcia, calixte, lizzard, ritu, avaughn, kbrosnan, ckarlof, dveditz, RyanVM, elan, calixte, jst, dveditz, guigs

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 46.0.1 desktop : gtb monday, should release today (see special topics for list of issues)
• 46.0.1 mobile: should release today
• 45.1.1esr: also for today or Wed. depending on QE signoff
• For all these, planning to release at 100% (unthrottled)

• 47 beta 2
  • Sign-offs are done, will push to beta channel/play store soon (latest by noon PST)

• mobile aurora 48 not released last friday. blocker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265486 Now live (late on MOnday)

Add-ons

Stability

Aurora

Crash rate is 2.10 so in the red zone (max is 2.0) Browser: 1.35, Content: 0.95

• Bug 1266484: 4 in top-crash, just appeared the 2016-04-29: fixed in central
  • need to follow up on uplift

Beta

Crash rate is 1.33 so in the red zone (max is 1.25) Browser: 1.11, Content: 0.22

• Bug 1268881 - Kill hard abort in the child with (msgtype=0x7,name=???) Route error: message sent to unknown actor ID
  • This was an e10s top crasher that is fixed in 47.0b2

Release

Crash rate is 0.98 so in the yellow zone Browser: 0.98, Content: 0.00

• Spike with signature UMDevice::SetShaderResources (71 in top-crash), increased by 166% (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267997 ), represents 176 crashes the 2016-05-02
• Spike with signature EMPTY: no crashing thread identified; ERROR_NO_MINIDUMP_HEADER (4 in top-crash), increased by 26%, represents 1800 crashes the 2016-05-02
• Spike with signature _chkstk | nsCookieService::GetEnumerator (49 in top-crash), increased by ~230%, represents 287 crashes the 2016-05-02 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1243836
  • Anything we can do for these crashes outside of a point release? (hotfix....)

Mobile

• volume is low on nightly - two JS crashes are the top crashes
• 1.6 release
• 2.0 beta

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268920 big top crash on aurora

Beta

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Telemetry Experiments

• Beta47
  • Plugin content blocking (Bug 1248813)
    • Start date: 47.0b2 ; End date: 47.0b8 (gtb)
    • Let's ask cpeterson/team to monitor external complaints (twitter, reddit, etc as well as sumo/UA)
  • E10s turned on for 20% beta population (Bug ???)
    • Start date: 47.0b1 ; End date: 47.0b6

Special Topics

• Dropping support for OSX 10.6-10.8 as of Aug (should be Firefox 48)
  • https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/29/update-on-firefox-support-for-os-x/

• Point release drivers for 46.0.1
  • The drivers were summarized in the build start message for each version to make it clear why we were doing it.
  • add-ons cert expiration (armag-addon) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267318 mobile, desktop, esr45
  • pages not loading (network::cache + antivirus) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268922 desktop
  • search locale issue desktop
  • Sync server db issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1262312 desktop
    • server side fix mitigated this slightly, but we will likely still need patch in 46.0.1
  • service workers issue (bug 1267733) desktop + mobile plus a graphics crash fix

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Next Tuesday May 10, at 10:30am PST, just after the channel meeting https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/46-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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