Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-01-22

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, Sebastian, Tom,Tania, mtabara, jcristau, Callek, Thomas, overholt, Ritu

Schedule Update

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

• Fennec 65.0b13 shipped to Play Store
• Desktop 65.0 RC1 shipped to Beta channel
• Fennec 65.0 RC1 gtb today, will ship to release users @ 5%
• 65.0 RC2 gtb likely coming Thursday

• 60.5esr built and ready on localtest

• DevEdition 66.0b1 shipped to Aurora @ 100% \o/ thanks pascal and julien

• issues with Firefox Nightly 67 and Firefox Beta 66 have been fixed (at least the permanent ones)

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514044 changed the process type reported by the crash reporter.
  • https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=66.0a1&process_type=content&days=7&_range_type=build (replace "tab" with "content")
    • https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=66.0a1&process_type=tab&days=7&_range_type=build
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521801 will fix this
• Content crashes are dropping since 1-10 - due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514044 ?

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.79, Thursday 4.28

• Small spike in Core | Graphics due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521368
• Core | Graphics regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521774
• Small volume regression in Core | DOM: Security - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521469

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 1.36, Thursday 1.38

• nothing new to report
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520483
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516425

Release

firefox release summary score: 1.72 , Thursday 1.76

• Rate looks very good overall
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487194 is rising a bit. Investigation ongoing.

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: 25.11, Thursday 25.92

• • #9 Top Crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516665 - no clues yet. Visible on beta as well.

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 31.95, Thursday 31.58

• • Large spike in B12 in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521398. So far no crashes in B13. Another mystery...
    • Snapdragon 820/821 issue possibly?
    • Will follow up with QA after the meeting

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 67.32, Thursday 75.67

• • Small volume JS regression in Nightly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521158
    • overholt will ask the team to investigate if possible (Thomas) sent a message to Steven on slack

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• Channel meeting next Tuesday (MoCo meeting conflict)
  • Push back 30min

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)