Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-07-19

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, jcristau, jlorenzo, pascal, bsurd, philipp,stefan, Tom, cfogel, Sebastian, crbadescu, acupsa,,roxana, asoncutean, dolah, tbabos, cbaica, cbadau, ccomorasu, gasofie, abodea,carmenf, obotisan,tania, Julia,cornel, ioana, sflorean, ohorvath,poiegas,csasca,vlucaci

Schedule Update

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

• 62.0b9 shipped to all channels
• Fennec b9 @ 99% in Play Store
• 62.0b10 gtb today

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.84▲, Tuesday's score 3.78

• New DOM | Service Workers regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476872
• DOM| Content Processes crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401721 has risen to the top browser crash on nightly
• New RDL crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476971
• Latest crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q3#2018-07-18_-_jchen

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.22▼, Tuesday's score 3.41

[philipp] 62.0b9

• AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-change-teardown | Extension shutdown: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938 - 9.2% of browser crashes
• new startup crash in b9 in nsNavHistory::RecalculateOriginFrecencyStats: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476674 - 0.8% of browser crashes
  • already has a patch
• nsTArray_Impl<T>::ClearAndRetainStorage | mozilla::dom::MessagePort::CloseInternal: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470306 - 0.8% of content crashes
  • under active investigation; diagnostic patches landing on nightly

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.65▼, Tuesday's score 2.70

• crash regressing since monday for russian users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476319 - 3.5% of content crashes
• content crash on french webmail provider site: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473892 - 2.6% of content crashes

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 28.83▼, Tuesday's score 28.97

• • Nothing really new in release since Tuesday. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475218 has risen a bit

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 33.27▼, Tuesday's score 33.93

• • Too early in B9 to see any trends.

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 42.85▲, Tuesday's score 35.78

• • New Open Fennec regressions from the API 26 work
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476424 - Reproducible
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476676
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476681
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476710
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476716
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476751
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476754 - Reproducible and phone is unusable for some users

QA

Nightly

[Brindusa] Nightly Validation - 2nd sign-off in progress - will be finished tomorrow and will send report [ccomorasu]

• Nightly preliminary feature sign-offs (mid-Nightly -1wk) is in progress *due Fri 20 EOD
  • FastBlock and Visible Privacy Protection features have merged together as FastBlock.
    • preliminary and mid-nightly sign-offs will be Missed since they're not ready for testing at this point.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[cfogel]

• GREEN: Beta 62.0b9 signed-off, report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1009
• GREEN: Round 2 of Full Functional testing completed
  • full report and coverage: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/plans/view/11127

Action items

Mobile

[Ioana] Firefox 62 Beta 9 signed off without major issues. New bugs - http://bugzil.la/1476225 - Amazon page is zoomed on tablet devices

Android beta builds throttled at 10% - http://bugzil.la/1476968 Firefox Beta Version 61 installed from Play store instead of 62 - [Ryan] Bumped to 99% 7:45am PDT

Investigations on: - http://bugzil.la/1476606 Nightly isn't responding / white screen while in other app - Oreo+ - http://bugzil.la/1476596 Mozilla Location Services enables itself @ Marcia - we can ping the local devs here too for the crashes to be sure that 1) that can analyze and do, 2) triage them in their meetings with the rest of the team

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476871 Geolocation is broken, Sylvestre is working on it
• [marcia] When we have large architectural changes that might destabilize our products, what is the best way to communicate to the nightly community so they understand better?
  • Some of the nightly Telegram channel Fennec users were distressed about all the crashing and didn't understand why it was happening
  • [julien] could the nightly blog be used?
  • [pascalc] https://twitter.com/fennecnightly?lang=en doesn't seem to be used very actively
• [jlorenzo] should we ship 61.0.1 [ubuntu snap] (https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/snaps/firefox/revisions/107/ ) to stable?
  • [RyanVM] Yes!
  • what should our process be, here... who does what (maybe ryan can capture this)
• [marcia] Question came up about feature https://trello.com/c/RAxskkWh/543-pref-change-on-next-gen-local-storage-domstorage-implementation -

it is in Trello card for 64, but in the QA document for 63 "Code not Landed"

• • [roxana] the plan is to land preffed on in nightly for testing for Fx 63 (comment from Trello card). feature will ride with Fx64

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)