Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-01-07
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
Contents
Attendees
jcristau, Aryx, Thomas, Andrew, philipp, Marcia, RyanVM, Pascal,Tania, Liz
Schedule Update
- release day!
- 72.0 is out at 25%
- fennec 68.4 at 99%
- desktop esr 68.4 at 100%
- 73.0b1 shipped today (aurora at 100%, beta at 25%)
- automated 73.0b2 at 50% tomorrow
- linux32 builds affected by bug 1607382 (no en-US partial updates), but not a blocker & fix already landed for b2
- nightly 74 started yesterday
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
Today Crash Rate overall 1.71 Crash Incidence overall 1.85%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.34 Last Thursday Crash Rate overall 2.09 Crash Incidence overall 1.86%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.17
- macOS crash spike related to the touch bar https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607140
- Still happening in 74 nightly but Harry has a patch
- Patches backed out to get us back in a good working state
- Small volume Core Networking regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607469
- Small volume macOS widget regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607303
- Linux Wayland crash is up at the top of 74 crash stats: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607033
- Yaron now investigating top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603976. Still happening in 74 nightly
Beta
Today Crash Rate overall 1.53 Crash Incidence overall 1.18%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.23 Last Thursday Crash Rate overall 1.56 Crash Incidence overall 1.21%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.60 two new browser crash signatures with fairly high impact in early data for 73.0b1:
- Startup Crash in [@ mozilla::interceptor::ReadOnlyTargetBytes<T>::EnsureLimit]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604008
- Crash in [@ mozilla::ThreadEventTarget::IsOnCurrentThreadInfallible]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604005
Release
Today Crash Rate overall 1.42 Crash Incidence overall 1.01%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.46 Last Thursday Crash Rate overall 1.43 Crash Incidence overall 1.02%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.54
- Not much to report yet as Firefox 72 just went out at 25%
- apparently unaffected by the big crash spike we had in b11: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606138
https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q3&action=edit
Mobile
Nightly
fennec nightly summary score: 43.06, Thursday 43.88
- Nothing specific to highlight for nightly
Beta
fennec beta summary score: 43.18, Thursday 44.01
- Nothing specific to highlight. A few new single installation crashes
Release
fennec release summary score: 16.21, Thursday 16.37
- Nothing specific for release yet
- We continue to have device specific crashes cropping up here and there, especially Motorola
Fenix/Firefox Preview
- No Socorro reports for Fenix 3.0.1
- Fenix nightly has some crashes but some look to be build specific
QE
- Requesting review - Beta - Revised test suites - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GvKJTr2XIpuFjYl2EqayLVzrDy5GGpAd0jIW9jI-r0c/edit#gid=905901023
lists what tests we’ll be running for each cycle
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Action items
Mobile
User Advocacy/ SUMO Report
Roundtable
- (marcia) Some things landed in the soft freeze that maybe should not have?
Special Topics
Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
Firefox 71 post mortem today
Firefox 72 post mortem January 21 (to be confirmed)
Actions