Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-05-03

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am 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, jcristau, pascalc, cFogel, philipp, ohorvath, cbaica, ccomorasu, crbadescu, roxana, carmenf, ritu,brindusa, tom, avaida, adrian, RyanVM, reese, lizzard,asoncutean, Sebastian,lsacalsfarcas, hyacoub, obotisan

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

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

• fennec 60.0b17 pushed yesterday
• desktop 60.0-build1 on beta
• fennec 60.0-build1 built and signed off
• desktop 60.0-build2 coming hopefully today (tracking candidates at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zibnO86UHdIadP6XhVXZgVTinNveXSuk8CjY_eDwK6I/edit#gid=0)
• releng playing with esr60, planning an actual 60.0esr candidate build around the same time as 60.0-build2

• DevEd 61.0b1 went out yesterday
• DevEd 61.0b2 gtb will be today for hopeful release tomorrow
• 61.0b3 gtb will be Monday for all releases and released on Wed, 9-May

• 52.8.0esr signed off and ready to roll

Add-ons

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://trello.com/b/maMI2Fn6/shield-studies

Stability

• wlach/readonly - missioncontrol update - working out kinks of new error aggregates dataset: will correct content crash reporting (so we can report a combined rate) and add fennec, hoping to deploy/use by next week

Nightly

awsy rate: 1.74 (browser: 0.66, content: 1.08) m-c rate (main / windows): 1.95 (pretty much unchanged from last meeting)

[marcia]

• Nvidia driver crash showing up in nightly as well https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457758
• #2 overall RDL crash is still under investigation https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456534
• # 3 overall Core | Graphics regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458462 is now fixed
• We are behind on Nightly triage -> https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q2

Beta

awsy rate: 0.56 (browser: 0.28, content: 0.28) (skipping m-c rate until 61)

[philipp] 61.0b1 - very small sample:

• Crash in mozilla::ipc::IToplevelProtocol::OtherPid: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446900 - 11% of browser crashes
• Crash in js::GlobalHelperThreadState::finishParseTask: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457475 - 8% of browser crashes
  • fix landed in 61
• Crash in InvalidArrayIndex_CRASH | MergeState::ProcessItemFromNewList: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456534 - 33% of content crashes

Release

awsy rate: 0.67 (browser: 0.3, content: 0.29) m-c rate (main/windows): 1.17

[philipp]

• 6k startup crash reports today due to comodo quarantining parts of the firefox program folder: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=mozJSComponentLoader::GetSharedGlobal#graphs
  • comodo said in a forum thread that they did release a signature update that's no longer doing this: https://forums.comodo.com/av-false-positivenegative-detection-reporting/comodo-is-reporting-everything-as-a-malware-since-this-night-t121994.0.html
• win10 april update crash issues:
  • With 3rd party sticky passwords app: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458238 - 48% of browser crashes on the win 1803 build
  • With 3rd party smartcard software: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458562 - 7% of broser crashes on the new os version
• other spiking issues on release:
  • crash in nvidia graphics driver from april 25: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457758 - 1.3% of content crashes
    • nvidia said they'd release a fixed version soon - it's not available on their homepage yet though
  • crash for russian users on games site: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458221 - 0.9% of content crashes

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.45 - beta 0.60 - nightly 1.66

• Release
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391268 (startup crash) is still high on release, although it appears there isn't much we can do about it

• Beta
  • b17 data seems pretty light so far, so nothing in particular to call out
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457978 which cropped up in b15 has not yet been seen in b17
  • Next week we should check in to see the status of the Samsung Galaxy S8 issue

• Nightly
  • Gecko Profiler issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458193 caused a bunch of different signatures to crop up in nightly. It is now resolved fixed.

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

[avaida]

• GREEN - 52.8.0esr-build1 report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/911.
  • Update tests on "esr-localtest" are green as well: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-esr52&revision=20f775af7b06&group_state=expanded&filter-tier=3&filter-searchStr=Fxup-esr-localtest(.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [avaida] GREEN - DevEdition 61.0b1 report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/909.

Beta

• [avaida] GREEN - 60.0-build1 (RC1) report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/908.

Mobile

[Oana]

• Beta 60.0b17 signed-off: GREEN - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/60/Beta/17
• RC 60.0 signed-off: GREEN - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/60/RC

Performance

RelEng

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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