Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-09-17

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am 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

jcristau, abodea, sflorean, csasca, ebalazs, ajoltan, atrif, obotisan, phorea, RyanVM, bmaris, tbabos, btot, hyacoub, lapahidean, mboldan, Aryx, aflorinescu, sbadau

Schedule Update

• Thursday channel meeting now at 7:30am PT due to conflicts
• Next week's "Tuesday" channel meeting will be on Monday September 21 instead, also due to conflict (just that week). Still 10am PT

• 81.0 build2 on the beta channel
• fenix 81 at 5% on the production track
• Fenix & Focus builds coming soon with GV81 RC2 build

• 82 soft freeze started today

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: , crash incidence: %, mc1 summary score: 5.04

• arena_dalloc | replace_free | `anonymous namespace'::setup_wasapi_stream new crash fixed by backout
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665563
  • third fourth landing attempt for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663917 in progress, let's keep an eye out

Beta

mc2 crash rate: , crash incidence: %, mc1 summary score: 4.29

• No changes from Tuesday.

Release

mc2 crash rate: , crash incidence: %, mc1 summary score: 1.85

• No changes from Tuesday.
• Nothing concerning in RC2 data so far.

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• 81b4 and b5 are looking much better for crashes largely to due to disabling features
• Easy to hit crash on nightly for PWA users https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/15116
• Stefan is looking at getting a better process around building beta builds
  • Feature freezing on the beta cut over
  • Weekly beta builds
• GV is looking around the process of upgrading the GV version on nightly to resolve the mutilday GV version freezes

QA

Nightly

[hyacoub]

• Pre-Merge Nightly Regression Testing for Fx82 - round2 - results will be added on trello today EOD (probably a YELLOW)
  • Bug 1665351 - is considered with major impact (causing a flash plugin/browser crash when trying to run the adbode flash player on Nightly 82 with 32-bit builds)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

[ajoltan] Firefox 81.1.1-beta.3 & 4 signed off with status [RED] Firefox 81.1.1-beta.5 signed off with status [GREEN] Firefox RC 81.1.0-rc.1 signed off with status [GREEN]

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

[adrian:] 81 Topsites move to Remote Settings is kinda'of(in the sense of the main reasoning for pushing this to 81) blocked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664516

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx79 & Fx80 PMs will happen on Monday, 21-Sep along with the rescheduled Tuesday Channel Meeting