Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-05-04

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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

jcristau, marcia, RyanVM,mtabara,avaida, cristian, alexandru,poiegas, cmuresan, bogdan_maris,cmuntean,brindusat, oana, ritu, carmenf, emilpasca, mahe, elan, lizz, kbrosnan, mboldan, Iulia,Cornel, sorina

Schedule Update

• 54.0b4 released (desktop on tuesday, fennec on wednesday)

• 54.0b5 desktop gtb friday morning in Taipei

• shield study for flash click to play on release 53 for the next 6 weeks

• ekr ready to gradually enable tls 1.3 on release

• new telemetry experiment on nightly (bug 1359939)

• 53.0.2 Fennec should build today.
  • drivers: partner issue, and also video corruption issue at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360626 (Need help for someone to land the patch, we are having problems moving fast enough here)

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 1.83 (browser 0.85, content 0.97)

[marcia]

• Nightly rate down slightly from what was reported Tuesday
• Uptime bugs filed: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q2

Beta

awsy rate: 0.81 (browser 0.57, content 0.24)

• Small spike in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342556

[philipp]:

• same picture as on tuesday: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-05-02
• patch for big intel driver crash is awaiting uplift approval for beta in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359416#c21

Release

awsy rate: 0.69 (browser 0.50, content 0.19)

[marcia]

• 10% of Mac users are crashing in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359624#c4
• Current explosiveness report is quiet

Mobile

awsy rate: 0.67

[marcia]

• Nightly, beta and release rates all look good
• New crash filed in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361088, current ni on snorp
  • Heard this asked before, should snorp be the default ni on the mobile bugs?
  • Open question about who is the front end contact in Fennec
  • snorp is the contact for more platform stuff
  • Joe Cheng would be the product contact for Fennec

QE

[Andrei]

• We started adding QE related information in the 'Firefox' Trello board.
• Engineering QA (including Test Pilot Team) will be joining this meeting regularly, starting today.

Nightly

[Andrei]

• WebRTC sign off in progress - estimate of completion: May 5th, eod.

Beta

[Andrei]

• 54.0b3-build1 and 54.0b4-build1 signed off (both GREEN) - test reports: https://goo.gl/0SmLn0 | https://goo.gl/sDW770.
• Sandbox Flash on 64-bit Windows (1123755) signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/BBLkLb.

Mobile

• [Bogdan] Fennec 54 Beta 4 signed off without major issues.
  • bug 1361705 - Text selection not working properly in search fields
• Wondering if there is any new decision for Fennec 53.0.2

Test Pilot

[Paul]

• New alias for Test Pilot experiments testing requests, that includes all the SV Test Pilot QA's: testpilot-qa@softvision.ro

Roundtable

• users complaining of slow page load in 52.1esr Bug 1361865
  • not clear they're all seeing the same thing
  • one user says 52.1-build1 was ok, build3 not
  • [Andrei] We started looking into this issue today, we'll have more information soon.

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 53 post-mortem pushed out to Tuesday May 9th.

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/53-0-Post-Mortem