Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-03-09

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: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

jcristau, jlorenzo, avaida, ritu, marcia, lizzard, philipp, mboldan, blassey, Iulia,Timea, Cristian, Bogdan, Oana,

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 53.0b1 shipped (desktop+mobile)

• tls SAO for 51
• 52 looking good but there may be a dot release in our future (not urgent)

Add-ons

Stability

Aurora

awsy rate: 4.28 (browser 0.87, content 3.41) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 1.84 (was at 1.78 the week before)

Beta

awsy rate: .78 (browser .60, content .18) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 3.13 (was at 3.20 the week before)

[philipp] 53.0b1 - still early, but these are some striking regressions in 53:

• Crash in @0x0 | ffi_call (Internet Download Manager addon): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338170 (16.2% of browser crashes)
• OOM crashes with mozilla::layers::FillRectWithMask: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345815 (1.6% of all crashes)
• Rust-related content crash in std::sys::imp::thread_local::create: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345856 (3.4% of all content crashes)
• WebRTC crash in abort | rtc::FatalMessage::~FatalMessage: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345652 (0.65% of browser crashes)
• WebRTC content crash in nr_ice_component_consent_timer_cb: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1335966 (0.9% of content crashes)
  • bug has a reviewed patch idling for a month now

Explosive report for beta shows some activity: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-03-08/2017-03-08.firefox.beta.explosiveness.html

Release

awsy rate: .80 (browser .53, content .27) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 2.43 (was at 2.42 the week before)

[philipp] 52.0:

• julien filed a crash report for a new startup crash on linux (nsDependentCString::nsDependentCString): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345413 (3% of all browser crashes - very high for a linux signature!)
  • happens when LOGNAME environment variable is unset
• startup crash in BaseThreadInitThunk (unidentified malware): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554 (5.3% of browser crashes)
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321384 (0.8% of browser crashes)
• crash in UMDevice::SetShaderResources: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267997 (0.8% of browser crashes)
  • has been around for a bit - regressing in volume in 52
• crash in rx::CopyNativeVertexData<T>: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341131 (0.4% of browser crashes)
  • crashes in https://mzl.la/webassemblydemo
• Mac crash in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345631 (0.63% of content crashes)
  • third-party induced crash with the software from http://www.enounce.com/myspeed; they claim to be working on a fix for it - it hoses the browser

• new startup crash signature for XP users on 52.0esr: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345836 (1.5% of esr browser crashes)

• Firefox 52 explosiveness report: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-03-08/2017-03-08.firefox.52.explosiveness.html

Nightly

awsy rate: 15.73 (browser 1.40, content 14.33) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 7.29 (was at 7.78 the week before)

[marcia]

• Filed regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345872 - Crash in mozalloc_abort | NS_DebugBreak | mozilla::ipc::ArrayLengthReadError, it already has some eyes on it
• Kanru filed a timezone bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345336
• Ting-Yu filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345326 which needs a bit more investigation
• New Uptime bugs filed: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q1

Mobile

[marcia]

• Fennec release explosiveness report shows a few signatures spiked: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-03-08/2017-03-08.fennecandroid.release.explosiveness.html
• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345895 since it was #19 and did not have a bug. This crash was present in 51 as well.

• [liz] non-NEON tablets and phones blocked in 53 beta (this will need to be done again on 53 release)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1305815#c33

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• [Andrei] XP/Vista EOL completed.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

[Andrei]

• 54.0a2 (DevEdition) sign off almost completed (93%).

Beta

• WebRTC TURN/TLS support seems to be still targeting 53, although it hasn't been tested so far on any channel - meta: https://bugzil.la/1056934 | trello: https://goo.gl/6J84zr.
• [Andrei] 53.0b1 signed off (green) - wiki: https://goo.gl/0XaXU6 | report: https://goo.gl/OzLSfv.

Action items

Mobile

• Firefox 52 Beta 11 , RC build 3 released without major issues
• Sync issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342881#c1
• Fennec 53 Beta 1 signed off - Bug 1345480 - After sharing multiple times the last sharing options is not displayed near share icon
• Fennec 54 Aurora SignOff - in progress https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/54/Aurora/SignOff/smoketests-results
  • https://bugzil.la/345806 - On exit from a guest session a new tab is opened in the restored session

Performance

RelEng

[jlorenzo] Fennec 54.0a2 was pushed to Google Play by mistake. Updates disabled until sign off

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345559

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

March 21st, https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/52-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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