Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-06-13

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573 https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573 +17207072699,,266532573# US Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

REMEMBER

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Attendees

• marcia, csasca, vlucaci, RyanVM, Aryx,atrif,ppop, cfogel, mlobontiuroman, abodea, tzsoldos, philipp, jcristau,tania, avaida, Tom, dolah, Ritu, ebalazs, bmaris, sflorean, obotisan, sdeiac, drus, lapahidean, dcicas, aflorinescu, ccomorasu

Schedule Update

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

• 67.0.2 at 100%

• 68.0b10 gtb in a couple of hours (desktop & fennec)
  • includes new about:addons

• 68 blocking bugs
  • Kinto Missing OneCRL Entries (1553256) poked, awaiting an update
  • Update default 68+ about:welcome experience including cards for return-to-AMO (1552280) expected by b12
  • Set security.enterprise_roots.enabled to true by default on ESR (1541012) ready to land once esr68 diverges
  • "Learn more…" hyperlink doesn't work in some "Secure Connection Failed" error website pages (1555627) assigned and P1 last week, will poke some more

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558817 to account for many single installation crashes on macOS 10.15

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 7.39, Tuesday 6.50

• Core | XP Connect crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558852, almost 4K in volume
  • Small volume https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558836 also in the same component
• Not much noteworthy to call out

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.22, Tuesday 3.32

• no major outstanding issues

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.25, Tuesday 2.31

• Long standing DOM Quota crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542485 is quite high on release
  • This was spun off from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487194

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: 10.62, Tuesday 10.69

• • #2 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539465, not visible in betas yet
  • #3 Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550815, startup crash which was triaged as a P2
  • #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1545429 seems stalled. After the speculative fix we still have crashes

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 64.97, Tuesday 67.77

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551205 is the top crash in b9. Added a few new correlations
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557661 - regressing bug was backed out

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 98.02, Tuesday 100.12

• • Other than the spike in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557661, not much to call out

• Fenix
  • Not much new since Tuesday
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557449 has been rising a bit in beta

QA

• [avaida] Started working on a test plan for the upcoming release of macOS 10.15.

Nightly

[rdoghi]

• Our 2nd Sign-off for Nightly Validation was sent.

We started setting up our kick off meetings for Fx69. We continued with Bug triage

Beta

[avaida]

• Preliminary status reports for Beta features is in progress, overall green with a few exceptions:
  • Trailhead stub Installer for Fx68 - preliminary sign off status report will be Yellow since there are still a lot of opened functionality issues: 1555015, 1498044, 1553433, 1553537, 1554114, 1555265, 1555348, 1554154, 1554141
  • Pin Firefox shortcut on taskbar for Windows 10 - preliminary status report will be YELLOW, but if bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558206 is not fixed in due time, the status for pre-release report will be RED.

Mobile Stability

[Sorina]

• Firefox 68 Beta 9 - Build 1 - Sign Off of Manual Functional Testing (GREEN)
• Firefox for Android 67.0.2 - Sign Off of Manual Functional Testing (GREEN)
• No major issue found on either of the builds
  • [read-only] Fenix triage: 419 filed issues, 296 triaged, 34 valid issues

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

• affected users tying the loss of passwords in 67.0.2 to the presence of avg/avast security software: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558765
  • logins.json.corrupted after reboots

Roundtable

• [avaida] RO offices will be closed on Jun 17 (holiday)
• [aflorinescu] 67.0.2 dedicated profiles spike reported in dedicated profiles slack channel - **question to Pascal
  • From chutten on email " With the release of 67 Firefox introduced "profile-per-install". This led to an inflation in "new-profile" ping counts and MAU figures that, though expected, was of unexpected and unknown magnitude. We just had a meeting about this: how to measure it, what we might have done differently had we expected it, how we might have communicated it differently..."
• [jcristau] no channel meeting next week (All Hands)