Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-10-13

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

Julien, Iulia, Marcia, Philipp, Calixte, Andrei, Sorina, Ritu, Brad, Erin, rail,Cristian, marco,petruta,Ninu,Bogdan

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• Fx50
• b7 Desktop only gtb today
  • I hope we can include a fix for bug 1309699 (to address some of the top content crashers)

Add-ons

Stability

Aurora

[marcia]

• Top crash involves Java and is a won't fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286461

Beta

Overall rate: 1.28 (browser: 1.06, content: 0.22)

[philipp] 50.0b6:

• crashes with nvidia driver dlls still up in 50.0b: (intel driver crashes got reduced with beta 5)
  • signature list: http://bit.ly/2dNbtAb
• gfx crash in std::list<T>::clear | CDeviceChild<T>::~CDeviceChild<T> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308863 2.5% of browser crashes
• startup crash in lsp chtbrkg.dll@0x1beb1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290403 1.71 % of browser crashes but now declining
  • [Andrei] We're looking into this.
• new crash signature nsTArray_base<T>::SwapArrayElements<T> | ... | mozilla::ipc::FileDescriptorSetChild::ForgetFileDescriptors https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309823 is 3% of content crashes
  • needs triaging; signature newly appeared on monday in multiple 50.0b builds, so it's probably due to external factors

Release

Overall rate: 1.09 (browser: 0.93, content: 0.17)

[philipp]

• recurring increase in shutdownhangs when mega.co.nz addon is updating: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306838
  • maybe the addons team could look into this & do some outreach to the addon developers?

Nightly

[marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308603 continues to be the highest volume crash on Nightly. Debugging patch landed today.
• Not much new in the way of crashes -> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime/NightlyCrashTriage/2016Q4#2016-10-13_-_kanru

Mobile

[philipp]

• fix for fennec top crash at startup nsNSSComponent::nsNSSComponent https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1301407 landed in 50.0b6 but wasn't effective

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• [desktop] [Andrei] We're currently blocked from testing media streaming on Netflix, due to lack of test accounts. I've contacted Anthony Jones and Chris Peterson on this matter, but haven't heard from them for a while now.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [desktop] [Andrei] Mid-Aurora sign offs in progress, to be completed by Monday, eod.

Beta

• [desktop] [Andrei] Pocket sys add-on v1.0.5 testing scheduled on 50.0b7, as we're waiting for https://bugzil.la/1309027.
• [desktop] [Andrei] Awesomebar testing scheduled on 50.0b8 because of https://bugzil.la/1304027. We should be able to start once https://bugzil.la/1306639 is fixed. Note that all other (eligible) dependencies were already subjected to Regression Testing.
• [desktop] [Andrei] Beta 7 Testday this Friday, check out https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/testday-20161014.
• [desktop] [Andrei] Concerned about the server-side FxA/Sync changes we find out so late in the cycle. Is there someone we could contact to get a roadmap/overall schedule this kind of changes?
• [desktop] [Andrei] Has any go/no go decision been made for Simplify Page (likely premature)? Our main concerns on Fx50 remain unresolved - https://bugzil.la/1306294,1306299,1306295.
  • Ritu to follow up with Bogdan and MConley

Action items

Mobile

• Fennec 50 Beta 6 signed off
• Fennec 50 Features on track
  • Play HLS video in an Android VideoView
  • Move recent tabs into history home panel
• Fennec 51 - no features - only Legal -> Include adjust campaign ID with core ping
• Fennec 52 - some still under consideration
  • Fennec Audio Controls Enhancement - On track with this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302453
  • RTL - Priority 1: 924699, 925108, 928663, 935388, 1070846

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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