Desktop QA Standup - February 5th, 2014

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-Desktop
• Vidyo Guest URL
• Agenda and notes: etherpad
• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/SoftVision/Meetings/Desktop:2014-01-29

Attendees: Manuela, Cornel, Matt, Paul, Ioana, tracy, juanb, Henrik, Mihaela, Andrei, Bogdan, Nils, KaiRo, Anthony, Alexandra, Petruta, VarCat

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs:
  • mwobensmith 2/5-2/6

• Events

Upcoming Schedule

• Firefox 28.0 beta 1 should be released February 6th

Channel Status

Beta (Fx 28)

• If reproducible, this blocks Fx28b1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968108
  • [Cornel] I can confirm this reproduces on my machines and on the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 device.
  • Anthony to investigate and escalate to Drivers
• Re-spin for Fx28b1 due to l10n?
  • Anthony is inclined to say no but is open to a ridealong if we have to respin to fix the Metro issue

Aurora (Fx 29)

• Feature sign-offs.

Nightly (Fx 30)

ESR (Fx 24.3)

• Shipped

Security

Automation

• Mozmill 2.0.4 has been released but we detected the same issue Andrei was facing last week with multiple instances of Firefox open. The underlying fix is deep in mozprocess and mozrunner code. Depending on when we get the final code reviewed, we will release mozmill 2.0.5.
• Because of the network outage from yesterday we missed to test all builds for today because the pulse listeners were not working

Stability

• Crash rates were looking high on Saturday, general ADI issue, being investigated, days before and after are OK though.
• Waiting for data for new releases/versions of this week, will also do comparative analysis between 26/27 on release and 27/28 on beta later this week or early next week.
• https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher_ranks_bybug/ can show topcrash ranks for all signatures in a bug now. First load takes a while, subsequent ones come out of a cache. Please file bugs on issues or improvements (in Socorro::Webapp, CC rhelmer).
  • Example for a bug/signature seen in all products and versions: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher_ranks_bybug/?bug_number=711568

Previous Action Items

• (in progress) - [juanb] Talk to web team (Raymond) to see if we can get news subscriptions for - Raymond is researching this for now.

Discussion Items

• Automation coverage on release days
• [Andrei] Are the new Firefox Accounts and Sync still going to land on Aurora?
  • yes, it landed on Nightly prior to the merge
  • Most of the Sync features are missing or not working properly.
  • An etherpad with my primary concerns along with additional information can be found here: http://mzl.la/Mtai91.
• [Paul] Australis sign-off - at risk?
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942157
  • AVG/Australis(?) issue - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=965921
• Feb. 18th we move to the new development cycle, with 2-week or three-week cycles for Firefox front-end
• After that, we move to the coupled train model with 9-week model.

Notes and Actions

• Anthony to communicate issue with Metro on beta 1 to r-d list
• [mwobensmith] Release day staffing who can answer questions re automation. How do we handle this?
  • Better scheduling?
  • Someone in Pacific-Eastern timezone who can take care of this? <- Nils has been volunteered...
• Feb 18, adopting new dev cycle ^. In what form?