Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-10-04

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

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

Kevin, Sylvestre, Philipp, Callek, Liz, Erin, Marco, Ritu, Marcia, RyanVM, blassey,dveditz, jst

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 47.0.1 system addon went out last Friday for websense detection.

• (liz) 49.0.1: system add-on may roll out later this week to fix async rendering on release https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307108
• Also a system add-on update coming up: Bug 1301131 — FIXED, felipc@gmail.com — Disable e10s if the user sees the big tab spinner too much (This just landed on beta yesterday)

• Fx50
  • 50.0b4 Desktop pushed to Beta channel today
  • Waiting for sign offs on 50.0b4 Fennec
    • Was the Fennec top crasher fixed? Kevin?
    • Manually verified the fix,
  • Crash rates look worse on Beta50 based on Telemetry data https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/1316/source#2294

Add-ons

Stability

Aurora

overall rate 7.86 (browser 2.05, content 5.81)

• Crash in IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill
  • Become the #1 crash
    • Most of the crashes are submitted from infobar

Beta

overall rate 1.32 (browser 1.07, content 0.26)

[philipp]

• family of gfx crashes: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?signature=~UpdateSubresource&product=Firefox&version=50.0b3&process_type=browser&_sort=-date&_facets=signature&_facets=user_comments&_facets=adapter_vendor_id&_facets=platform_pretty_version&_columns=date&_columns=signature#facet-signature
  • is 3% of 50.0b3 browser crashes (was 0.77% over the whole 49.0b cycle & is 0.85% on 49.0.1 currently)
• Crash in std::list<T>::clear() from D2D1::EndDraw() https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291084 (2.5% of browser crashes)
  • we'd have a contributor in the bug able to somewhat reproduce the issue & test things out
• Crash in IPCError-browser | (msgtype=0xAE0005,name=PNecko::Msg_PHttpChannelConstructor) Value error: message was deserialized, b https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289001 (13.5% of content crashes)
  • no progress (in the bug) since a week
  • [marcia}

jemalloc_crash is #2 on the most recent beta <- the intel bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296630

• • • intel crasher maybe on release as well? Startup crash in BuildFlatReplacement https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306621

Release

overall rate 0.95 (browser 0.78, content 0.18)

[philipp]

• highest impact issue on 49.0.1 is a startup crash with malicious LSP still - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290403 (0.93% of browser crashes, 1850 installations recorded in crash stats the past week)
• over the weekend we had a doubling in shutdownhangs apparently caused by the MEGA.co.nz addon - now reclining on its own again https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306838

Nightly

[marcia]

• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306979. Waiting for patch in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288997#c66

Mobile

[marcia]

• Filed new #12 top crash in 49: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307457
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307323
• 3 to 4 times more users on the Aurora channel now that we have https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fennec_aurora W00t!

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Next Tuesday Oct 4 -- Please add your thoughts to the etherpad !
  • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/49-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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