Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-10-04

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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

• marcia, RyanVM, ioanachiorean,rdranca, pascal, icristescu, cionce, csasca, vlucaci, abodea, mcoman, brindusa,tzsoldos, gasofie, cbaica, ccomorasu, asoncutean, cfogel, obotisan, jcristau, dolah. carmenf,sflorean, ohorvath, acupsa

Schedule Update

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

• 63.0b12 gtb after this meeting;

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 8.16, Tuesday 8.27

• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496408 for Widevine crashes on all platforms
• Filed new WR crash after WR update: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496430
• Another WR crash spotted by clouseau https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493616
• Filed new 10.14 Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496441
• Latest crash triage up to 10-2 is pretty quiet: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q4

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.43, Tuesday 2.48

63.0b11

• increase in startup crashes during 63:
  • mozilla::Preferences::AddBoolVarCache (omni.ja corruption): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276488 - 8.8% of browser crashes
  • ErrorLoadingSheet (low disk space during updates): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303764 - 6.7% of browser crashes
• tab crash in OOM | large | ... | js::gc::AllocateCellInGC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472062 / https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488164 - 7% of content crashes
• tab crash in mozilla::ipc::IPDLParamTraits<T>::Write: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1484524 - 3% of content crashes
• tab crash with quick heal security software: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489041 - 3% of content crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.33, Tuesday 2.33

• no new stability issues popping up in 62.0.3
• MC shows a main crash spike in Linux - see https://data-missioncontrol.dev.mozaws.net/#/?channel=release. Will investigate what is happening.
  • Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496456

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: 19.58, Tuesday 19.65

• • Nothing to call out for 62.0.3

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 33.36, Tuesday 33.43

• • Several new single installation crashes in the top 20 of 63.0b11, other than that nothing to call out.

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 72.00, Tuesday 71.63

• • MC rate is still high due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492704
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496435 continues on Nightly even after 2 previous attempts to fix it.
  • Keyboard/IME regression is now fixed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494203

QA

[cornel]

• GREEN: 62.0.3 signed-off, report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1161
• GREEN: 60.2.2esr signed-off, report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1160

Nightly

[brindusa]

• In progress: Testing for preliminary status reports for Nightly features (pre-Beta - 1wk) - due tomorrow EOD

Beta

[cornel]

• GREEN: Snap testing on Beta 63.0b10, report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1159
• GREEN: Beta 63.0b11 signed-off, report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1164
  • also covered snap testing, report: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1166

Mobile QA

• Fennec 63 Beta 11 signed off - no major issue
  • http://bugzil.la/1495655 - Reading mode and A2H icons switch positions
• Firefox 62.0.3 - Sign off - no major issue
• Firefox 64.0a1 - Pre-Check - Part 2 of Manual Functional Testing
  • http://bugzil.la/1496073 - Notifications entry is displayed in Settings sub-menu
• Mobile reorg
  • Fire TV 3.0 signed off - Levente will be dedicated person there, Andrei peer
  • Focus 7.0.10 - Oana will be dedicated person there, Bogdan peer
    • Focus 7.0 will only enable GV for 10%
  • As reminder Sorina is dedicated person on FxA and Stefan will be peer ( replacing Oana)