Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2012-03-06

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursday - 2:00pm PDT, 21:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

Previous Actions

• John to come up with timeline for bug 729654 and bug 730095
  • Updates handed to QA; Trying to schedule bug 729654 to go out to beta users today

Schedule Update

Monday 3/5

• [RelEng] Firefox 11 beta 6 go-to-build
• [RelEng] Firefox 3.6.28 go-to-build (current blockers for landing/verification)

Tuesday 3/6

• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Begin testing of FF11 beta 6
• [Desktop QA] Begin testing of Firefox 3.6.28

Wednesday 3/7

• [Sign-Off Meeting] FF11 beta sign-offs in preparation for Friday's final go-to-build
• [Desktop QA] ESR bug fix verification complete prior to go to build#2
• [Mobile QA] ESR sign-off of FF10.0.3esr build#1
• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Provide sign-off for FF11 beta 6
• [RelEng] Push Desktop/XUL FF11 beta 6

Thursday 3/8

• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Provide sign-off for Firefox 3.6.28
• [RelEng] Push Firefox 3.6.28 to the beta channel

Friday 3/9

• [RelEng] FF10.0.3esr build#2 go-to-build (desktop only due to 733012)
• [RelEng] Firefox 11 desktop go-to-build off of mozilla-release

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Monday 3/12

• [Desktop QA] Final sign-off of Firefox 10.0.3
• [Desktop QA] Final sign-off of FF10.0.3esr build#2
• [RelEng] FF11 and 3.6.28 pushed to external mirrors

Tuesday 3/13 (RELEASE/MERGE DAY)

• [RelEng] Push Firefox 11 to the release channel (manual updates only due to Patch Tuesday)
• [RelEng] Push XUL Fennec 10.0.3 (build#1?) to the mobile Android market
• [RelEng] Push Firefox 3.6.28 to the release channel
• [RelEng] Push Firefox 10.0.3esr (build#2?) to the ESR channel (unthrottled)
• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Final sign-offs on all of the above
• [RelEng] Freeze Aurora updates
• [RelMan] Merge uplift
• [RelEng] Firefox 12 beta 1 go-to-build

Wednesday 3/14

• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Begin testing of FF12 beta 1
• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Begin testing of first Aurora 13 build or latest FF13 nightly

Thursday 3/15

• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Sign-offs to unthrottle Aurora 13
• [RelEng] Unfreeze Aurora updates
• [Channel Meeting] Checkpoint for unthrottling Firefox 10.0.3 for 48 hours (to acquire 10-20 million users)

Friday 3/16

• [Desktop/Mobile QA] Sign-offs for FF12 to go to beta
• [RelEng] Push FF12 beta 1

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Tuesday 3/20

• [Channel Meeting] Checkpoint for chemspilling or hotfixing based upon feedback from first 10-20 million users

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Thursday 3/22

• [Channel Meeting] Checkpoint for chemspilling or hotfixing based upon feedback from first 10-20 million users, or unthrottle completely if unnecessary

Add-ons

• bug 732625 FoxTab doesn't work with some recent versions of Flash (Mac OS only?) -> trying to get in touch with FoxTab people.

Babylon

• Jorge contacted Babylon support today and they supposedly forwarded contact info to the R&D department. Waiting for a response.
• bug 721264 - Block Babylon Toolbar due to security vulnerability -> waiting for reply from Babylon. Will give them a couple of days before escalating.
• bug 715744 – DLL block request: BExternal.dll -> no STR? A response from Babylon would be good but it shouldn't block this.

Stability

Aurora

Beta

• bug 722538 – block AMD Radeon HD 6290/6300/6310/6320 for DIRECT2D
• bug 715401 – Firefox Crash @ nsCanvasRenderingContext2DAzure::ClearRect with Yahoo Toolbar

Release

QA

Firefox 11.0b6#1 - test plan, and mobile

• automation is complete
• manual testing to be completed by tomorrow morning
• bug fixes to be verified by end-of-day Friday (will not block Beta sign-off)
• Mobile on track for sign-off tomorrow morning (PST)

Firefox 10.0.3esr#1 - test plan, and mobile

• 4 bugs left
• targeting go-to-respin by Wednesday morning
• targeting sign-off by Friday morning
• Mobile on track for sign-off tomorrow morning (PST)

Firefox 3.6.28#1 - test plan

• automation is complete
• bug fixes and manual testing to be completed by EOD tomorrow

Default-to-Compatible - test plan

• verified it's working as expected (no prompting) on releasetest
• expecting to be able to test beta later today, sign-off by end-of-day

Aurora

Beta

RelEng

• See action items; done
  • Too early to tell for sure, but encouraging to see FF3.6.13 users reduced by ~16% since last week. Will monitor.
• when "go to build" for 10.0.3ESR?
• discussion about when to migrate repos for FF11.0 release

Marketing/Communications

• Update on 3.6.13 numbers? Should we file bugs for the next couple of pockets?
  • Downtake of 3.6.13 is less than 100K in 6 days.
    • Question: Any guesses why? Do we think this is representative of all the builds?

Roundtable

• Discussion about what to do next about "slowness" in FF11

• Using Telemetry to help with performance regression investigations
  • Short term fixes (data coverage even when frequently restarting, dashboard issue)
    • bug 707320 – Allow histograms to persist to disk
    • bug 731662 – Telemetry dashboard submission counts are incorrect
  • Long term fixes (getting perf data from users when reporting issues)
    • bug 712109 – Implement non-fatal chromehang by turning on frame-pointers on a branch
    • bug 732522 – Allow submission of telemetry data with SUMO feedback
    • bug 733148 – Snapshot current state of Firefox during perf issues for diagnosis

Actions

Triage

• All Approvals

Aurora Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms
• Unresolved Tracking Bugs for FF54

Beta Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms
• Unresolved Tracking Bugs for FF133