Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-11-26
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
Contents
Attendees
- marcia, RyanVM, jcristau, philipp, tania, pascal, sguha, Ritu, overholt
Schedule Update
Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard
- 71RC1 is shipped
- Currently no uplift request or strong need for a RC2
- Fennec 68.3b6 is shipped
- Fennec 68.3 RC status?
- gtb today, so we can roll it out at 5% tomorrow
- 72 in soft code freeze
- no DevEdition builds this week
- Automated beta builds Mon, Wed, Fri
Release metrics
Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs
- Stability
- Performance
- Security
- Functionality
Off-train releases
Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html
Stability
- Work ongoing to improve macOS stacks https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599019
Nightly
Today Crash Rate overall 1.83 Crash Incidence overall 4.96%, Mission Control v1 rate 6.26 Thursday Crash Rate overall 2.13 Crash Incidence overall 5.62%, Mission Control v1 rate 6.30
- Core Internationalization crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598656 is now fixed
- 5137 crashes/1 install crash at the top of crash stats. Appears to be a bot
- #2 Core DOM crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597965 is fixed
- There was a question last Thursday after continued crashes even after the fix
- Nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q4
Beta
Today Crash Rate overall 1.68 Crash Incidence overall 1.09%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.86 Thursday Crash Rate overall 1.88 Crash Incidence overall 1.18%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.99
- no major issues apparent in 71.0b12 crash data
- Crash in [@ shutdownhang | memset | je_free | mozilla::detail::HashTable<T>::destroyTable | mozilla::scache::StartupCache::~StartupCache]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594056 - 0.25% of browser crashes
Release
Today Crash Rate overall 1.39 Crash Incidence overall 1.04%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.14 Thursday Crash Rate overall 1.39 Crash Incidence overall 1.04%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.19
- Crash spike after public suffix list updating: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582647 - 2.5% of browser crashes
- discussion/investigation still ongoing
- Crash in [@ AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-before-change | SessionFile: Finish writing Session Restore data...]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599479 - 0.5% of browser crashes
- getting worse in 70 - mostly affecting zh-cn builds
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: 54.73, last Thursday 55.19
- Nothing specific to highlight for Fennec Nightly
Beta
fennec beta summary score: 49.21, last Thursday 49.43
- Nothing specific to highlight for Fennec Beta
Release
fennec release summary score: 17.25, last Thursday 17.32
- Nothing specific to highlight for Fennec release
- Huawei was unable to reproduce the high volume crash which spiked back in the July timeframe when the released Android 9
Fenix/Firefox Preview
- Filed #4 overall nightly crash https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/5134
- Filed #2 overall nightly crash https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/5164
QA
Nightly
- Everything is on track
- Password Generation and Capture Improvements - Bug 1566536 will be treated as Bugwork, rest of the fixes moved to 73
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
- features received Yellow/Red Sign-offs , latest status:
- Celebration Toast (1593258) - Uplifted, QA can still reproduce
- Devtools full text Search (1598285) - Fix got uplifted, verified
- Request Blocking UI (1596089) - As per product and eng, its a P3
Action items
Mobile Stability
SUMO Report / User Advocacy
Roundtable
- Reminder that Thursday/Friday of this week are U.S. holidays