Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-06-19

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, RyanVM, pascalc, philipp, Sebastian, mtabara, dveditz, ritu, overholt, Tania, jcristau

Schedule Update

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

• Desktop Fx61 RC1 shipped to Beta channel today
• Fennec 61.0b15 shipped few minutes ago
• Desktop RC2 looking likely
• Fennec 61.0 RC gtb probably tomorrow, planning to push to Play Store @ 5% like previous cycle

• ESR 52.9 & 60.1 gtb waiting on bug 1436241 (uplift requested) and a gfx followup

• DevEdition 62.0b1 shipped few minutes ago
• DevEdition 62.0b2 gtb Thursday, shipping Friday

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 5.27 (= √3(3.29 windows * 5.37 mac * 8.28 linux))▼

[marcia]

• New Layout|Web Painting regression affecting Windows, Mac and Linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469505
• Nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q2

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.01 (= √3(3.00 windows * 2.01 mac * 4.51 linux))▼

[philipp] 61.0b14

• overall crash rate looks fine - top signatures mostly already known crashes at shutdown
• low volume signatures regressing in 61:
  • Crash for some users when opening the downloads panel: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468534 - bug 1469076 may contain a patch for this
  • Crash in shutdownhang | RtlAcquireSRWLockExclusive | mozilla::plugins::PluginModuleChromeParent::TakeFullMinidump: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469603

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.36 (= √3(2.16 windows * 1.60 mac * 3.79 linux))▼

• Rates look pretty good, nothing specific to call out

Mobile

• Release

fennec release summary score: 25.31 * android (main_crashes: 25.31)▲

• Added topcrash to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461724, since it is overall #5 top crash which affects Sony devices

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 37.65 * android (main_crashes: 37.65)▲

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468541 very visible in B13, correlated to Snapdragon 820/821 processors - 18% of browser crashes, the bug needs more ❤️

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 44.34 * android (main_crashes: 44.34)▲

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469086 is rising on nightly, and there is a comment in the bug that we may need to revert a change we made previously
• Initial data in the Play Console suggests that the latest Galaxy S8 fix in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460989 is having a positive effect on crash rates reported through there \m/

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• (mtabara) random question - do we have a plan / ETA to switch from etherpad to google docs or w\e ?
  • not really, this is temporary storage (notes are stored on the wiki after the meeting) so probably fine

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)