Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-10-25

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, abodea, adrian_sv, philipp, pascal, tbabos, cfogel,Tom,ppop,poiegas, dolah, oboca, lbialis, bmaris, sdeiac,acupsa, lizzard, obotisan, Ritu,tania, Sebastian, csasca, vlucaci, tzsoldos, asimonca, ccomorasu, asoncutean,rdranca

Schedule Update

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

• 63.0 unthrottling update? Checked with the team, we will go to 100% later today
• 63.0 mobile updates disabled, will push dot release sometime next week

• 64.0b4 gtb today, planning Desktop/DevEd/Fennec builds
  • Ryan will ping gfritzsche about trying to uplift 63 dot release driver Telemetry patch into it
  • Patch won't be ready in time. Will aim for b5 next week.

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Nightly

https://data-missioncontrol.dev.mozaws.net/#/?channel=nightly

• Webrender crash spike https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501627. Fix landed and nightlies were respun.
• Filed new regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502044. Appears to have started in 64 timeframe

Beta

https://data-missioncontrol.dev.mozaws.net/#/?channel=beta 64.0b3

• no obvious issues blocking a full rollout
• content crash spike from b2 fixed by the backout of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494537

Release

https://data-missioncontrol.dev.mozaws.net/#/?channel=release 63.0

• no obvious issues blocking a full rollout
• crash with "trend micro" interference rising recently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490637 - 0.9% of browser crashes
• quick heal tab crashes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489041 - 2.5% of content crashes
• cpu-specific crash issues in 63:

   **https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501343 - 3.2% of browser crashes
   **https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502047 - 0.4% 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
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497526 is the top crash. Patch may fix some instances of the crash
  • Google Play Console is showing some anomalies. Filed two bugs as a result of what is called out in GPC
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501748
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501449

• Beta
  • Google Play Console also shows a high ANR rate

• Nightly
  • Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502061, a small volume regression that dates back to 64

QA

• Concerns/outstanding:
  • Any news about fixing https://bugzil.la/1492128 ? +1

[Bogdan] - read only

• Updates for 63.0 signed of on release-cdntest, release channels with no new additional issues - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bjrDIHiXwcpfpC_3iR_Ix4uXpwyvf0Mk9PYbr_ociJE/edit
• Updates for 60.3.0esr signed of on esr-cdntest, esr channels with no new additional issues - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8whiFBJufemFHKL3Dsovqx_ZryTPNojwJ0qaXgsMMw/edit

Nightly

[Brindusa] - read only

• Documentation and prepare for kick-off meetings for the new features on Fx-65

[Ovidiu]

• Tomorrow (10-26-2018) we will have a go/no go meeting for Dedicated Profile feature. If there is anyone interested to find out more about this feature we also created 2 demos with the main functionality: demo 1 https://streamable.com/s15mn (This is the scenario that causes the most concerns from our point of view because it can affect a large number of users.) and demo 2 https://streamable.com/xft56

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[Bogdan] - read only

• Beta 64.0b3 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1211
  • One new issue found https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots/issues/5063
  • Update tests on beta-cdntest, beta showed no new issues: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4LP7KVCOmUgcLOyLIWqML-ZKDTy9TWoIaEKDt7XkoM/edit

• Beta 64.0b3 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1213
  • Two new issues found but are not specific to snap builds: https://bugzil.la/1501684,1501697

Action items

Mobile

• Signed off Fennec 63 RC build 2
• Fennec 64 Beta 3 build 1

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)