Firefox QA Standup - October 14th, 2015

Dial-in Information

• Wednesdays, 8:30am Pacific Time
• Telephone:
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99779 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99779 (US)
• Vidyo Room: QA
• Vidyo Guest URL
• Agenda and notes: etherpad
• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-10-07-2015

Attendees:

Discussion Items

• [Andrei] Desktop General status - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/DesktopManualQAWeeklyStatus
  • Build sign offs - 42 Beta 5, Beta 6 and 41.0.2 Build 1
  • Smoke Testing on WebRTC using Aurora 43 - https://goo.gl/hckFmO
  • Started assessing the work needed for WebVR
  • Main focus:
    • Build sign offs - 42 Beta 7
    • Feature testing - WebVR (Fx44), Control Center (Fx42), Tab Visual Sound Indicator (Fx42)

• [Ioana] Mobile updates:
  • Signed off Fennec 42 Beta 6 build 1 - all good
    • Signed updates too - all good
  • Signed off 41.0.2 build 1

Major New Desktop Features status

• [Cornel] Windows 10
  • no updates

• [Paul] Control Center (Fx 42)
  • no updates

• [Petra] Async Plugin (Fx 42)
  • no updates

• [Camelia] Tab Visual Sound indicator (Fx 42)
  • no updates

• [Alexandra] Unified Telemetry & FHR (Fx 41)
  • no updates

Major New Mobile Features status

• [Teo] Tracking Protection and Private browsing improvements

• [Ninu] Kidfox - Firefox in Restricted profiles
  • no updates, works ok

Project Updates

• Metrics / Dashboards (KaiRo)

• Stability (KaiRo)
  • Signature shortening is really coming this week, see also https://home.kairo.at/blog/2015-10/shortening_crash_signatures_dropping_arg
  • https://arewestableyet.com/ is now showing the same numbers as KaiRo's graphs and is linking them

• EME automation + YouTube MSE automation [sydpolk]

• Mobile

Notes and Actions

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs:
  • Kevin - Oct 9 - 31
  • Syd - October 8-9, October 15
  • Florin - Oct 15-16
  • KaiRo, Sylvestre, Lawrence and RyanVM visiting Softvision Nov 9-11
  • Henrik - PTO probably Oct 12th - 14th

• Events
  • Firefox 42 Beta 7 Testday - this Friday, Oct 16th
    • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/testday-20151016

Community

Channel Status

Release (Fx 41)(Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

• A 41.0.2 build was created but contains a patch that probably caused a 10% increase of crashes on beta (bug 1209464), will need more investigation/discussion.

Beta (Fx42) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

Aurora (Fx 43) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

Nightly (Fx 44) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

ESR (Fx 38.3.0)

Security

Automation (whimboo)