Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-02-21

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

lizzard, julien, rail, jlorenzo, marcia, philipp, dveditz, lmandel, RyanVM, blassey

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 52.0b8 desktop shipping

Add-ons

Stability

Aurora

awsy rate 4.44 (browser .92, content 3.52)

[marcia]

• Nothing significant to report relating to Aurora

Beta

awsy rate .93 (browser .73, content .19)

[philipp] 52.0b7

• startup crash in BaseThreadInitThunk https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554 (6.8% of browser crashes)
• oom crashes with skia https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303094:

   ** OOM | large | mozalloc_abort | mozalloc_handle_oom | moz_xmalloc | SkChunkAlloc::newBlock (0.85% of browser crashes)
   *** may not be fixable according to comments in the bug report
   ** OOM | large | mozalloc_abort | mozalloc_handle_oom | moz_xmalloc | sk_malloc_flags (0.5% of browser crashes)
   *** has a patch pending uplift approval

• crash in mozilla::CycleCollectedJSContext::ProcessMetastableStateQueue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336478 (0.5% of browser crashes)
• crash in UMDevice::SetShaderResources https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267997 (0.4% of browser crashes)

• spike of crashes in mozilla::storage::Service::getSingleton: http://bit.ly/2ljr2o1 - Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341373
  • look like a sqlite version mismatch
  • just started friday after beta 7 got released (with a sqlite update https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1339321), but crash reports are all from 52.0b6 users

Release

awsy rate .84 (browser .56, content .28)

[marcia]

• Overall trend doesn't look bad: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/crash-report-tools/longtermgraph/?fxrel
• BaseThreadInitThunk is #7 overall
• #8 and #9 top crashes both related to JS and are old bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287306 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668583

Nightly

awsy rate 19.86 (browser 3.51, content 16.36)

[marcia]

• New accessibility crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340579. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340903 is possible also in that area.
• Printing crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340885 was filed on the 19th and fixed the same day.
• Feb 19th build had a number of bugs filed against it - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q1#2017-02-20_-_njn. The explosive report showed some of the spikes: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-02-19/2017-02-19.firefox.nightly.explosiveness.html

Mobile

Release awsy rate 1.18

[philipp] crash rate for fennec 52.0b is trending upwards & looking far from good: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/crash-report-tools/longtermgraph/?andbeta

• crashes in ACodec (deleted)@0x... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1339496 (10.8% of crashes in 52.0b6 - was 1.8% in 51.0b)
• crashes in libstagefright.so@0x... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341360 (16.9% of crashes in 52.0b6 - was 7.7% in 51.0b)
• crashes in mozilla::dom::AudioChannelAgent::WindowID https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1339230 (1.8% of crashes in 52.0b6)
• crashes in libcutils.so@0xe29d https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338204 (1.7% of crashes in 52.0b6)

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

RelEng

• [rail] ESR 52 based builds will be enabled later this week
  • SHA1 signed installers will be disabled in Release 52, ESR52 based ones will be served instead
  • Migrating XP/Vista users to ESR52 \o/

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

• TLS rollout (revised experiment on release, some late beta uplifts), see email from ekr
• 64-bit and farmville (issue for 53) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317995

mentioned by jimm as not being fixed by async drawing

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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