Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-11-15

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, vlucaci, csasca, dolah, tbabos, lbialis, pascal, RyanVM,tania, jcristau, Aryx,, bmaris, tzsoldos, gasofie, asimonca, ccomorasu, cfogel, adrian_sv , carmenf, lizzard,asoncutean,sdeiac obotisan, jim, brindusa,Tom, philipp, MiraLobontiu,cionce, icristescu, ritu,sflorean

Schedule Update

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

• 63.0.3 shipping today (pending QA sign off)
  • [cornel] QA just signed-off the build as we speak.

• 64.0b10 gtb shortly

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Empty crash issue which was called out at Tuesday's meeting is resolved fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506781. All crashes have been reprocessed.

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score - data is missing, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506862 on file

• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502717 is still under investigation, Google drive crashes are mentioned
• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503787 still has a need info on :baku for the remaining crashes
• Filed a startup crash which goes back to when 64 was in nightly, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507504

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.23, Tuesday 2.27

• Not much to call out for beta, nothing new in the top 15 signatures

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.50, Tuesday 2.54

• a11y crash spike for chinese builds: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507102 - 30% of browser crashes in the past 24h / close to 20k reports
• crash on czech webbanking site: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507410 - 4.5% of all content crashes
• persistent startup crash with particular (old) amd cpus: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501343

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: 26.63, Tuesday 27.31

• Filed #18 top crash, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507463. Mostly Motorola devices running API 26

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 29.76, Tuesday 30.20

• No new crash signatures in the top 15 crashes

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 34.87, Tuesday 35.32

• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457273 has a patch waiting for review
• Filed new regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507513. Need to figure out what regressed it in that large changeset
• Small spike in ANRs detected in GPC on 11-13

QA

[Bogdan] Concerns/Outstanding:

• 64 Beta 14 is planed to release in 30 Nov (Romania will be out of the office)
• Proposed solutions:
  • move the release date to 29 Nov
    • jcristau: this should be fine
  • ask the team from Vegas to sign it off

[Bogdan] - read only

• RC 63.0.3-build1 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1262
  • Three new issues found: https://bugzil.la/1507456,1507503,1507482. - none major or specific to 63.0.3.
  • Update tests on release-localtest showed no new issues: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mO4UCMgWJ5V1lsZk_Rf0etkWfW8PpAgVcNVB85dHG1o/edit

Nightly

[Brindusa] - read only

• Nightly Validation - 65.0a1 - 2nd sign-off - GREEN STATUS (report link - https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1261)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[Bogdan] - read only

• Beta 64.0b9 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1253
  • No new issues found
  • Update tests on beta-cdntest, beta showed no new issues: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vS2sTw3A7MFgjR2RDacbIdNqt7mfpfFjf9loJMEUclw/edit

• Beta 64.0b8 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1250
  • No new issues found.

• Beta 64.0b9 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1254
  • No new issues found.

Action items

Mobile Stability

Mobile

• Signed off 64 Beta 9 - GREEN STATUS
• Signed off 65 Nightly Pre-check 2 - GREEN STATUS

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)