Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-05-12

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

Attendees

pascal, jcristau, Aryx, overholt, telin, roland, Tania, bkal, ryanvm, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 76.0.1 shipped Friday at 25%, unthrottled yesterday
  • No 76.0.2 release being planned at this time, though a potential driver bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628719 ) is being discussed
• 77.0b4 shipped yesterday
• 77.0b5 ships tomorrow

Release Metrics

Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs

• Stability
• Performance
• Security
• Functionality
• Accessibility

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 2.07, crash incidence: 1.96%, mc1 summary score: 6.54

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636615 media crash regression on macos (has patch)
• new regexp engine landed today, followed by backout and respin for reproducible crashes

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 1.89, crash incidence: 1.90%, mc1 summary score: 3.94

• No significant new crashers since last week, bug 1635020 got a fix uplifted and bug 1634598 will be fixed in bug 1620679

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.54, crash incidence: 1.31%, mc1 summary score: 2.74

• Nothing obvious so far. 76.0.1 driver bug confirmed fixed

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

• Fx78 feature QA status report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1csRjRMmZP1kWrwzvBPXYO1_hW5FtDX11Ik0Cg2P_eXs/edit#gid=0
• Team is scheduling kick-off meetings, reading details shared as part of submitted JIRA tickets
• some of the PI tickets are missing corresponding trello cards
  • can we know which ones?
  • https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-139
  • https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-593[not sure if we we need a trello for this]
  • https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-597 [this one is a bit confusing, we are not sure if this is targeting 77 or 78, will have it clarified tomorrow as part of kick-off meeting]
  • https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-603

• Next milestone: tech doc due: May 15

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Received two late PI tickets: PI-605 and PI-598 (https://trello.com/c/0Kg09HSW/930-full-installer-attribution)
  • QA owners have been assigned, test planning is in progress
• On track for next QA milestone: Pre-release prelim status reports: May 15

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• No challenged or at risk features at this time
• Ask the user for their OS account password/biometrics will be disabled via pref flip for Release in both Fx76 and Fx77

SUMO Report

• [roland] no report today, i'll report tomorrow at the cross functional and on thursday

Roundtable & Special Topics

• [roland] want to improve support's Firefox desktop reporting! office hours tomorrow 7-a.m. -8a.m pacific (zoom:rolandt, ping for password) or ping roland
• May 25 (day 1 of RC week) US Holiday

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• May 21? The 19th conflicts with MoCo meeting.
  • May 21 is a holiday in France and a bunch of other European countries
  • tentatively May 20, 10AM PT