Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-10-26

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: ReleaseCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

marcia, jcristau, cornel, Julia, jlorenzo, bsurd, avaida, bogdan_maris, philipp, brindusa, Cristian,asimonca, jgong, carmenf,roxana,ninu, Tom, RyanVM, lizzard, petruta, Timea, mboldan, elan,Sorina

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 56.0.2

https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard/#pollbot/firefox/56.0.2

• 57.0b12 gtb today

Add-ons

Shield studies

• Quick review of shield studies or experiments.
• Is anything waiting for signoff or testing?

There is a pending study we will need in Release 56 (currently happening in Beta 57). Currently being prepared for hand off for testing.

• • ^dashboard still broken: https://github.com/gregglind/x-shield-inflight-dashboard/issues/4

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 1.79 (browser 0.76, content 1.03) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 4.61 (week before: 5.16, this time last cycle: 7.17)

[marcia]

• Nightly crash triage continues to be fairly quiet: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q4
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411132 was reopened since post landing the signatures are still showing up

Beta

awsy rate: 0.76 (browser 0.43, content 0.34) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 1.94 (week before: 2.01, this time last cycle: 4.73)

[philipp] 57.0b11 regressions compared to 56 release:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404791 - 2.2% of content crashes
• stylo: Crash in rand::weak_rng: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409444 - 2% of content crashes
  • understood and on a path to a fix
• startup crashes in mozJSComponentLoader::GetSharedGlobal & nsZipArchive::GetItem - 2% of browser crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404741
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404743
  • mostly stale; we thought this might be caused by a particular 3rd party but this doesn't seem to be the case in correlation data
• for a number of e10s+accessibility issues see tuesday's notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-10-24#Beta

Release

awsy rate: 0.80 (browser 0.56, content 0.25) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 2.36 (week before: 2.75, this time last cycle: 2.95)

[marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405290 has risen to #2 and #6 on release. Affects 57 as well.

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.56, beta 0.75, nightly 1.22

[marcia]

• Nightly
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396698 is now the top crash. Filed 2 months ago.
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411267 which affects Pixel/Pixel XL devices is rising. We have a user who can reproduce the issue on his device. Affects 57 as well (currently #18 top crash)

• Beta
  • Early data coming in for FennecAndroid 57.0b11 shows about the same crashes at the top.

• Release
  • Nothing of note to call out.

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• [Cornel] 56.0.2 - signed off as GREEN
• [Mihai] 64-bit migration testing on 56.0.2 - completed on 'release-cdntest'
  • testing on 'release' currently in progress

Nightly

• [Cornel] Preliminary Nightly feature sign-offs in progress *due Oct 27 (pre-Beta sign-offs due Nov 3)

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [Andrei] Heads-up: final DevEdition 57 build sign off pushed back to Mon, Oct 30, so that we can meet the deadline this week on our feature sign offs.

Beta

[Cornel]

• 57.0b11 signed off without any major isuses
• Pre-Release feature sign-offs are in progress *due Oct 27
• QA status for Firefox 57 features - https://goo.gl/tJUKsU
  • [Julia] The Activity Stream Pre-Release sign off is in progress. The current feature status is YELLOW - 9 new uncovered issues and a big number of known ones https://goo.gl/9Cv31z
  • [Emil] [Photon Structure] Concern raised over https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400259 (Windows 7).
  • [Andrei] A new last-minute feature found on Firefox 57 - https://trello.com/c/KXofM00V/3170-accessibility-indicator. We won't be able to sign it off this week, but we should have a test report available by mid next week. <== sorry about this

Action items

Mobile

[Ninu]

• 57.0b11 signed off without major issues
• Photon mobile pre-Release signoff: Green - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/Photon-Mobile
• Custom tab pre-Release SignOff - Green - https://goo.gl/qwttYV
• Activity Stream pre-Release sign-off to be sent before tomorrow EOD

RelEng

• given the importance of Quantum, should we remove the 56.0 watershed for non win32 users. This way <=55 non win32 users update straight to 57.0
  • [avaida] Will this have an impact on 64-bit migration? => [jlorenzo - To be confirmed] 64-bit migration will be stopped at the time 57.0 ships.
  • [jlorenzo] action item: follow up with an email.

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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