Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-08-08

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

Attendees

• marcia, jcristau, drus,pascal, sdeiac, avaida, mlobontiuroman, lapahidean, ajoltan, philipp, Aryx, atrif,Tom, mhentges,tania, asoncutean, Ritu, sflorean, btot, dcicas

Schedule Update

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

• 68.0.2
  • primary driver went away
  • still considering a release mid next week because there's enough other changes to make it worth it
• 69b12 building today
• fenix 1.2 shipped August 7 at 99.99%

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=1571833 since I noticed the MC Dashboard wasn't picking up the spike

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 7.57, Tuesday 7.57

• New Core | Graphics crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572415
• Logging added to Core | DOM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542037 has resulted in a patch

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.43, Tuesday 3.36

[69.0b11]

• AsyncShutdownTimeout | ... | EnvironmentAddonBuilder: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513855 - 2% of browser crashes
• OOM | large | ... | webrender_bindings::bindings::wr_state_new: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531819 - 0.4% of content crashes
• crash in js::UnwrapAndDowncastObject<T>: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571686 - 0.4% of content crashes
• OOM | large | ... | mozilla::AppendToFormatsList: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571648 - 0.2% of content crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.23, Tuesday 2.25

[68.0.1]

• plugin shutdownhang: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541344 - 3.9% of browser crashes
  • has a patch
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570451 continues to be the top crash after the OOM. Over 13K crashes. Will be fixed in next beta

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.

Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 84.53, Tuesday 84.71

• Nothing specific in Nightly to highlight

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 56.75, Tuesday 56.86

• Nothing specific in beta to highlight

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.93, Tuesday 19.99

• Developer investigated https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571781, but we don't know why it is happening.
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461724 continues to be quite high on release, especially the SprintLiteral Signature

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Geckoview crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557449 is the top crash in the latest release, 1.2.0
• Still too early to highlight much else

QA

Nightly

[rdoghi]

• We are creating Test cases and Test plans for Skyline features

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[rdoghi]

• We are working on Preliminary Testing for Beta Features

Action items

Mobile Stability

[Stefan]

• Sign-off Firefox Beta 68.1b5 and first part of BFT's - status GREEN
• Firefox Preview RC 1.2.0 - sign-off (GREEN)

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• next Thursday, August 15 is a holiday in France & parts of europe
  • [Andrei] QA offices from RO will be closed as well - should be taken into consideration especially with the dot releases on the horizon next week
  • We should meet, also bcuz 68.0.2 will be pushed a day or two before.

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)