Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-12-31

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW 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, telin, lizzard, Tom,tania

Schedule Update

• 72 rc week

• 72.0-build2 is on the beta channel
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606138 explosive on 72.0b11, for reasons unknown
  • no sign of it on the RC so far, probably still a risk in case of RC2

• fennec 68.4b4 live on beta
• fennec 68.4.0-build1 on release at 5%

• firefox 68.4.0esr build1 in QA's hands

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

Add-ons

Stability

Nightly

Crash Rate overall 1.82 Crash Incidence overall 2.14%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.29 12/19 Crash Rate overall 1.96 Crash Incidence overall 2.37%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.96

• Filed Linux/macOS regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606347
• Fission related https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603976 continues to be on the top nightly crashes
• Nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q4
  • One New Core A/V crash and one new Core | Graphics Layers

Beta

Crash Rate overall 2.06 Crash Incidence overall 1.60%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.74 12/19 Crash Rate overall 1.69 Crash Incidence overall 1.23%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.42

• Very large spike in a Win 7 signature in b11 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606138
  • Currently hasn't yet been seen in the first rc
  • Both versions of MC detected the spike

Release

Crash Rate overall 1.43 Crash Incidence overall 1.02%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.58 12/19 Crash Rate overall 1.43 Crash Incidence overall 1.02%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.02

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: 43.76

• Nothing specific to highlight

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 44.62

• Nothing specific to highlight

Release

fennec release summary score: 16.42

• Filed a new bug related to stuck partial wake locks - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606473

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Still no Socorro crash reports for Fenix 3.0.1

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

User Advocacy/ SUMO Report

Roundtable

• soft code freeze for 73 this Thursday

• DoH add-on had a red signoff for 72
  • engineering not worried about the telemetry issue raised

• PiP on mac/linux yellow
  • reaching out to astevenson to make an explicit go/no-go decision

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

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