Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-03-26
Channel Meeting Details
- Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
- Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
- Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings
Video/Teleconference Details
- Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
- https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
- +17207072699,,536097768# US
- Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu
Contents
Attendees
RyanVM, taniam, abodea, jcristau, ajoltan, drus, atrif, vlucaci, obotisan,cfogel, mberlinger, avaida, sdeiac, ccomorasu, pascal, mboldan, tbabos, csasca, lapahidean, asoncutean, ebalazs, roland, Aryx, prasa,
Schedule Update
- 75.0b7 shipped Monday
- 75.0b8 shipped Wednesday
- uncovered partner repack bustage, fixed in b9
- 75.0b9 shipped today
- unscheduled build to fix a gfx issue
- 75.0b10 ships tomorrow
- last build before monday's merge and 75 rc1
- includes windows default browser agent
- fennec beta migration to fenix about to start
- sticking with the published release schedule for the moment
- expect feature development to slow down though
- reviewing planned features for breaking potential, and delaying some changes
Release Metrics
Report on release criteria metrics
- Stability
- Performance
- Security
- Functionality
- Accessibility
Reported at yesterday's cross functional
Desktop Stability
Nightly
mc2 crash rate: 1.67, crash incidence: 2.09%, mc1 summary score: 5.65 last thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.80, crash incidence: 2.12%, mc1 summary score: 5.93
- Work underway in bug 1624949 to throttle ShutDownKill reports so they're not dominating Nightly content crashes
- 3 high-volume WebRender crashes:
- Bug 1624250: [@ core::option::expect_failed | webrender::scene_building::NodeIdToIndexMapper::get_spatial_node_index]
- Bug 1624125: [@ InvalidArrayIndex_CRASH | mozilla::layers::DisplayItemCache::MarkSlotOccupied ] (may fix bug 1624250 also)
- Bug 1624881: [@ webrender::spatial_tree::SpatialTree::get_relative_transform]
- High-volume ShutDownKill crashes (will still show up high with throttling in place):
- Bug 1614305: [@ IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill | NtYieldExecution]
- Bug 1613798: [@ IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill | nsThread::Shutdown | mozilla::ChildProfilerController::ShutdownAndMaybeGrabShutdownProfileFirst]
- Bug 1613797: [@ IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill | hashglobe::hash_map::HashMap<T>::clear<T>]
- Bug 1614564: [@ IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill | EMPTY: no crashing thread identified; ERROR_NO_MINIDUMP_HEADER]
- Bug 1624886: [@ js::wasm::WasmFrameIter::instance]
Beta
mc2 crash rate: 1.55, crash incidence: 1.56%, mc1 summary score: 3.81 last thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.86, crash incidence: 1.51%, mc1 summary score: 4.29
- 75.0b8 data looking good, nothing in particular to call out
- 75.0b9 gets rid of the diagnostic assert that was plaguing devedition
Release
mc2 crash rate: 1.30, crash incidence: 1.16%, mc1 summary score: 2.57 last thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.30, crash incidence: 1.17%, mc1 summary score: 2.96
- No significant new crasher since we shipped appart from:
- Crash spiking in [@ mozilla::ScriptPreloader::CacheWriteComplete] with mozilla china extensions: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610246 - 0.5% of browser crashes
Mobile Stability
Fennec
- 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.
Fenix
QA
Nightly
[Maria]
- Nightly feature status reports - In progress, due 31 Mar
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
[Maria]
- Beta feature pre-release sign offs are - In progress, due 27 Mar
Mobile
[Laurentiu] Firefox Preview Beta 4.2.0-beta2 - signed off with status [YELLOW] Fennec Beta Migration Build (75.0.0-beta.2) signed off with status [YELLOW]
Action items
User Advocacy / SUMO Report
- [roland] no update, did a quick scan of march 25 and 26 no new issues
Roundtable & Special Topics
[Tania] Upcoming holidays for Argentina QA - Mar 30, 31, Apr 2
Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
- Fx74 next Tuesday?