Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-09-19

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

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Attendees

lizzard, marcia, RyanVM, kmoir jlorenzo, philipp, selena, overholt, elan, nicole, jean, dveditz, jlund

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

• 52.4.0esr build1 on esr-localtest
  • might have a build2 for bugs 1400399 and 1371889

• 56.0 RC desktop should go out today on the beta channel (pending update tests on beta-cdntest)
• 56.0b13 mobile is ready to go to the play store
• We will have an RC 2. There are several blocking issues
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374231
  • [jlorenzo] Partial updates went wrong (because of BZ2). RC1 has only complete updates for the release population (the beta one has both partials and completes). We plan to get that fixed in RC2

• 57.0b1 devedition
  • sign off done
  • Waiting for update testing
  • No release notes, no download!

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard

The issue with shield studies should be fixed in 56 RC (and 57?) But it may mean current studies need to be thrown out and restarted. talk with matt grimes for details

Erin will follow up to make sure affected teams are aware

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 3.49 (browser 1.35, content 2.14) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 12.32 (week before: 11.43, this time last cycle: 10.48)

[marcia]

• Crash rate is in the high realm
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1398070 has over 1400 crashes and has risen the past few days
• Stylo crash which spiked on the 15th appears to be fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399546
• Nightly Crash triage bugs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q3#2017-09-19_-_ting
• Filed reproducible new crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401173

Beta

awsy rate: 1.12 (browser 0.84, content 0.28) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 6.01 (week before: 5.35, this time last cycle: 4.40)

[marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394550 - Relevant Knowledge crash needs followup. They say that they are not aware of the problem, developer asked philipp and marcia for help following up
• #20 top crash shutdownhang | NtWaitForKeyedEvent | RtlSleepConditionVariableCS | mozilla::BaseTimeDuration<T>::FromMilliseconds needs a bug.

[philipp]

• Crash in RtlpWaitOnCriticalSection | ... | CFrameSurfaceAllocator::ReleaseDXVASurface is spiking up in b12: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374231 - 7% of browser crashes
  • win10 64bit only crash with intel kaby lake gpus
  • this is from a late uplift which caused this regression :(
  • Will block the release because of the volume

Release

awsy rate: 0.82 (browser 0.59, content 0.23) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 3.23 (week before: 2.91, this time last cycle: 2.30)

[marcia]

• Crash that is Comodo related - http://bit.ly/2jGysCV

[philipp]

• Crash in CallHookWithSEH: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400169 - 0.4% of browser crashes
  • newly showing up on win10 32bit after last patchday; many user comments

Mobile

awsy rate - release 0.66, beta 0.76, nightly 9.45

[marcia]

• Nightly
  • Rate is quite high
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400549 caused a crash spike on Fennec Nightly.

• Beta
  • #2 overall crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394788. Patches that might help landed on nightly 9-18

• Release
  • #6 top browser crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347984

RelEng

standard gtb windows from relman where possible in advance

• relman can give updates in the morning and onwards in #releaseduty with gtb plans

Roundtable

• [marcia] 57 pre beta signoffs status
  • Still awaiting signoff on perf card - https://trello.com/c/Slk4SHIU/336-perf-sign-off
  • Testing still ongoing for Fennec Activity Stream - https://trello.com/c/3qRDoKNp/335-fennec-activity-stream. They were given tomorrow as a deadline

• (syl) About the new Mac version - Apple agrees that it is their fault but we don't know if it will be fixed for the release or not.
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390125

• FYI readonly, this is what happens with untriaged bugs
  • [rares] EngQA :

P1: New untriaged bugs (outstanding list) - https://triagebot.mozilla.org/dashboard.html P2: NI from Rel Mgmt (received directly by Brindusa Tot) P3: Qe-verify+ list: https://tinyurl.com/ydam6hah P4: Untriaged bugs without any final resolution that are 14 days older from our previous comments (ex: NI to reporter for which we didn’t receive any reply) – we get these from here https://tinyurl.com/yab3fly2 P5: the remaining bug triage lists: Regression wanted: https://tinyurl.com/y7jkzv8o Test-case wanted: https://tinyurl.com/yb5y2n4h Old bugs marked as regression: https://tinyurl.com/y8cra6kc General Bug List: https://tinyurl.com/ybbbpead Softvision EngQA team used to handle P1 to P5 until about a couple of weeks ago, when we started deprioritizing some of them and focus on Fx57 feature testing (Photon & Activity Stream) and Photon bug verification. We’re still currently handling P1 & P2 + partially P3 & P4. P5 has been totally deprioritized (might be until the Release of Fx57)