Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-04-21
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, telin, pascal, jcristau, philipp, aryx, roland, tyler ahn, jessie bonisteel,taniam, dveditz, jstutte
Schedule Update
- 76.0b6 shipped yesterday @ 100%, 76.0b7 & 76.0b8 coming later this week on normal schedule
- 76.0b6 is the first "late" beta build (EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER un-set)
- RC week next week
- fenix beta migration in US/Canada starts today, last step of the migration
Release Metrics
Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs
- Stability
- Performance
- Security
- Functionality
- Accessibility
Desktop Stability
Nightly
mc2 crash rate: 1.73, crash incidence: 7.84%, mc1 summary score: 10.38 last thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.61, crash incidence: 2.32%, mc1 summary score: 6.63
Crash rate is super high because of several top crashers in the last days, they are all fixed today so numbers should improve soon
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1631234 -- Top crash (fixed), 13,000 crashes since last Sunday
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1631232 -- Top crash (fixed), 4,800 crashes since last Sunday
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1628728 -- Top crash (fixed), 1,600 crashes last week
Beta
mc2 crash rate: 1.83, crash incidence: 1.57%, mc1 summary score: 3.55 last thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.85, crash incidence: 1.66%, mc1 summary score: 3.93
[76.0b6]
- Crash in [@ nsWrapperCache::GetWrapper] under mozilla::dom::Navigator_Binding::get_gpu: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1612523 - 1.5% of content crashes
- fix in b7
Release
mc2 crash rate: 1.32, crash incidence: 1.25%, mc1 summary score: 2.60 last thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.30, crash incidence: 1.32%, mc1 summary score: 2.90
[75.0]
- crash spike in [@ mozilla::ScriptPreloader::CacheWriteComplete] again as mozilla china releases addon updates: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610246 - 1.5% of browser crashes
- new crash with external audio capture software: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631794 - 0.5% of content crashes
- last friday's crash spike in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625749 has gone down again quickly after twitter reverted their change
- the bug on our end is fixed in 76 and 77
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
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Mobile
Action items
Feature Status Review
- [Challenged] ETP: Cookie Restrictions: List 2
- Stage 2 experiment still showing discrepancy in search queries between Mozilla and Google. Meeting scheduled with Google for later today.
- Remainder or tracked features in Nightly and Beta look to be on track.
User Advocacy / SUMO Report
- OS auth dialog in about:logins to copy passwords in 76 is unclear according to some feedback - users don't understand that it's asking for their OS account credentials (not FXA or master password):
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1285013
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1284764
- [roland] to followup with SUMO KB articles to make sure they are clear that this is an operating system dialogue (e.g. Windows 10, 8, macOS) not an FxA dialogue, sebastian H. to post screenshot of Windows 8
Roundtable & Special Topics
- (Sebastian) Backouts volume delaying merges and driving costs up: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10GK9NwwWdpOT93rxTRPb6cj43sAuU2_CNN5suMl7z8k/edit#slide=id.p
