Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-03-16

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

marcia, lizzard, avaida,cornel, Iulia,jcristau, sylvestre, jlorenzo, nicole, philipp, cristian, alexandru, mboldan, Timea, RyanVM,Ninu, marco, ritu,Oana,petruta,cbadau

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Schedule Update

53.0b3 desktop build

Possible chemspill coming....

• Fx52 update rate is at 25%
  • Discussed the possibility of going to 100% to uncover other issues that can be included in the first dot release

Add-ons

Stability

Aurora

awsy rate: 5.23 (browser 0.95, content 4.29) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 4.40 (week before: 2.06)

[marcia]

• Rate up slightly from Tuesday's meeting
• Explosiveness report is quiet: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-03-15/2017-03-15.firefox.aurora.explosiveness.html

Beta

awsy rate: 0.92 (browser 0.62, content 0.30) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 3.77 (week before: 3.94)

[philipp] 53.0b2:

• Startup Crashes in BaseThreadInitThunk (unidentified malware): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554 (10.3% of browser crashes)
• Crashes in @0x0 | ffi_call (Internet Download Manager): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1333486 (4.2% of browser crashes)
  • on the decline after the blocklisting entry has been adapted to a hard-block
• OOM crashes with printing - regressing by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311512
  • OOM | large | ... | std::basic_stringbuf<T>::overflow: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347646 (1.5% of browser, 2.14% of content crashes)
  • OOM | large | ... | mozilla::gfx::RecordedSourceSurfaceCreation::RecordedSourceSurfaceCreation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347632 (0.6% of browser, 0.5% of content crashes)
• a11y crash regressing in 53: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324863 (0.9% of browser crashes)
• Crash in js::IsWrapper: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347523 (0.7% of browser crashes, 1.8% of content crashes)
• Crash in GetCacheIRExpectedInputType: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347486 (1.7% of content crashes)
• Crash in PromiseReactionRecord::setHandlerArg: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346012 (1.6% of content crashes)

Release

awsy rate: 0.81 (browser 0.54, content 0.27) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 2.91 (week before: 2.71)

[marcia]

• Explosiveness report doesn't show any major spikes: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-03-15/2017-03-15.firefox.52.explosiveness.html
• phillip filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342360 and it already has a patch. Currently the #36 top browser crash on release and is a new issue
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328147 - AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-before-change | MediaShutdownManager: shutdown is the top Mac crash, although I don't recall seeing it up that high in the last release
  • On Mac it seems to happen when people quit.

Nightly

awsy rate: 19.73 (browser 2.74, content 16.99) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 14.64 (week before: 8.10)

[marcia]

• Rate up slightly from Tuesday's meeting
• Reached out to vendor in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347243 and they are interacting in the bug
• bas landed some patches that should make the signature in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347521 better

Mobile

awsy rate: 1.21

[marcia]

• Release Fennec - Dalvik crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286307 continues to be the top crash
• Nightly Fennec - Large volume crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346019 has been fixed.

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

[Andrei]

• (!) Important: feature sign off dates adjusted - https://goo.gl/XrJm0f.
  • Currently waiting for information on several features from Fx54 and Fx55.
  • This is bad, because we have mid-Aurora (Fx54) sign offs planned next week and around 7 features might not make the cut.
• WebSense testing planned for tomorrow (Fx52). \o/ thank you!

Nightly

• Windows 10 "Creators Update" testing session planned for next week.
  • Can we test 53 too? Shipping 18-April. (Andrei) Will do.

Aurora / Dev Edition

[Andrei]

• WebRTC sign off on Fx54 in progress - will be completed early tomorrow.

Beta

[Andrei]

• Copy, Paste, Drag & Drop sign off on Fx53 completed - yellow because of https://bugzil.la/1347588.
• Testing on "WebRTC Turn/TLS support" (1056934) started.
• Firefox 53 Beta 3 Testday will take place tomorrow, Fri, Mar 17.

Mobile

• Same as Desktop - we keep an eye for new Features in 54/55 // Some from Taipei ( Rachelle)
• Fennec 53 Beta 2 - signed without major issues

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Next Tuesday after the channel meeting https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/52-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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