Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-08-03
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
Contents
Attendees
marcia, philipp, thomas, jcristau, ritu, mtabara, avaida, oanah
Previous Actions
Schedule Update
- desktop 55.0 build2 should go out to the beta channel today
- fix for webextensions on fennec (1367494)
- gfx crash regression (1384929)
- websocket hang (1384658)
- disable non-working workaround for windows IME bug (1379997)
- race condition with script preloader (1385822)
- race condition on screenshots startup (1386457)
- gmail/... HTTP/2 hang (1381016)
- editor fix (1371657)
- fennec 55.0 build1
- issues raised after building these release candidates:
- 1387078 disable fennec one-touch-pinch feature
- 1386759 Disable network.http.throttle.enable
- Pref flips can be pushed to release via System add-on updates, so respin build3 may not be needed.
- 52.3.0esr build2
Add-ons
Stability
Nightly
awsy rate: 3.42 (browser 1.95, content: 1.47) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 11.25 (last week: 9.84, this time last cycle: 6.40)
[marcia]
- Nightly rate has gone down since Tuesday
- Top two crashes are stylo crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382568 reloading Twitter and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384824
- New regression crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387058, has ni on regressor
Beta
awsy rate: 0.82 (browser 0.60, content 0.22) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 4.17(last week: 4.40, this time last cycle: 3.23)
[philipp]
- awsy crash rates are getting close to the ones on release with the latest patches in rc1. still a bit higher than at the end of last cycle though.
- "worry list":
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373934 - 1.1% of browser crashes in rc1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367727 - 1% of browser crashes
- Crash in js::Scope::clone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367896 - 1% of browser crashes
- Crash in LongestPhaseSelfTime: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366217 - 0.9% of browser crashes + potentially has a fix
- Crashes with McAfee Webadvisor: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376514 - 0.6% of browser crashes
- it's declining due to an update with a fix that mcafee is pushing out but the addon is much more popular among release users than on beta
- Crashes with Webroot SecureAnywhere (WRusr.dll) in BaseThreadInitThunk: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361410 - 0.6% of browser crashes
Release
awsy rate: 0.78 (browser 0.55, content 0.23) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 2.81 (last week: 2.64)
[marcia]
- Explosiveness report is quiet: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-08-02/2017-08-02.firefox.release.explosiveness.html
- 6 browser crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372505 is still hanging around, only appears to be on 54
Mobile
awsy rate: release 0.57, beta 0.94, nightly 1.98
[marcia]
- Mobile rates across all three channels looks good
- New Nightly Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387053 is spiking, ni on possible regressor
- Has a patch awaiting review
Performance (Thu)
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Release
QE
- [Florin] Aug 15 is a National Holiday in Romania - that’s when 56 Beta 3 is scheduled - should we reschedule for Wednesday Aug 16?
Same in France and other parts of Europe
- [Andrei] 52.3.0esr-build2 signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/pXkp65.
- [Cornel] 55.0RC-build2 testing completed (GREEN) - report will be sent in a few minutes
Nightly
- [Andrei] macOS 10.13 "High Sierra" compatibility testing is in progress (Fx56).
- [marcia] Can we update https://trello.com/c/VZnE8oRd/327-macos-1013-sign-off
- [Andrei] I’ve posted a status update in Trello.
- [Brindusa] Nightly validation 3rd sign-off (without Photon) finished and sign-off (YELLOW) - due to bug 1363378 - test report: https://goo.gl/mjW4A8
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Action items
- [Andrei] Follow up with Erin and RelMan and send out Softvision’s schedule for the 57a1, 56b, 52.4esr release cycle.
Mobile
- Fennec 55 Beta 14 & RC 1 signed off
- bug 1306271 - Contextual hint about offline bookmarks is not displayed
- bug 1386995 - Fennec 55.0 RC is missing locales
- Critical but low priority: Bug 1372911 - Single locale builds on Beta 55 don't open
- Nightly Validation was signed off Tuesday
- bug 1385849 - Crash in dalvik-main space (deleted)@0x1d3ffffe
- Features:
- almost all green and out
- Bookmark Management - yellow - postponed to Firefox 57
- Photon’s features/components will start landing and we will be working on them
Test Pilot
[Paul]
- 3 brand new experiments launched on Tuesday morning
Firefox Send - First web experiment that allows file sharing between browsers (almost all the browsers, not only Firefox). Firefox Notes - As the name says, it's a sidebar where you can write down your notes and has some simple formatting options (for now). Voice Fill - Speech to text experiment that works on search fields and lets users input text in Firefox using their voice. Currently working on Google, Yahoo and Duck Duck Go.
Performance
RelEng
Marketing/Communications
User Advocacy
Roundtable
(Read only, sorry I have a conflict) [elan]
Releases
Do we have all Pre Beta Sign-Offs for 56?
Are these dates good for the SV milestones for 57?
[Aug 4] Pre-Beta Sign Off [Aug 11] Release Week, Test Plan Creation [August 25] Test cases creation, (Smoke Test Suite), test cases review. Round 1 of testing sign-offs [Sept 8] Test Case Execution. General Mid-Nightly Sign Off. [Sept 15] Mid-Nightly Sign-off 56 (Round 2) [Sept 22] Test Case Creation (Full Suite), Test Case Execution, & Pre-Beta Sign-Off When is the next merge Day? [marcia] according to https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar it is 9/20
e10s multi
I'm getting numbers for e10s multi what a "50-50" split means; if we have to dial down a percentage, we will need to spin another build (?)
(syl) some l10n db issues today