Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2012-05-15
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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
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Contents
Previous Actions
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Alex to follow up on the Hotmail regression bug 736731 -
Alex to speak with Kev re: Silverlight crash bug 753248 -
Michelle to file bug on Input for rapid betas build IDs bug 754050
Schedule Update
- Fennec Native 14 beta 1 is now live on Google Play!
- Bugs filed by following the link on the product page will have [Play] in the whiteboard
- Fennec Native betas will have a weekly cadence after this week as with desktop, going to build no later than Wednesday for a Friday push
- We expect our next beta of Fennec Native to be multi-locale with the same 13 localizations as XUL Fennec previously
- We're now here in the schedule
- FF13 beta 4 will go-to-build today (5/15). We've asked engineering to continue working on tracked bugs, looking for the lowest risk mitigating fix for remaining tracked bugs
- The next 3.6 EOL checkpoint is 5/28 when we push out the last round of MUs (one more auto-update round still to follow)
Add-ons
- bug 754723 – Consider blocklisting Flash versions
Stability
Overall concerns
- Top crashes
- List of top crashers increasing.
- Seem to be many issues that just get deferred because we can't find STR or don't understand the problem.
- Lots of new signatures over the last 4-6 mos, nothing happening.
- Need a formal strategy to get some of these worked.
- RelMan's recommendation would be:
- Go through each top crasher, read through crash comments, pull new correlation reports, update its status, and provide any leads for QA
- Ask the QA community to try to find STR for each top crasher, with rewards if found (t-shirt/bounty?)
- Automatically track all reproducible top crashers found for a future release and drive them as if they're a new regression
- Remaining top crasher bugs would then be blocked on a bug that would collect the necessary debug info to diagnose
Aurora
- Crashes tracking Fx14
- A couple of problems with AMD graphics cards bug 714320 and bug 700288 that we haven't been able to fix.
- bug 736695 - nsGenericElement::UnbindFromTree , when I open Customize Toolbar with Video DownloadHelper 4.9.8 installed. A problem for a while.
- bug 753248 - startup crash - silverlight issue on Mac 10.7.
Beta
- bug 704125 - spike in crashes for banco de brazil.
Release
- In preparation for 10.8, we're now watching for Mountain Lion top crashers
- bug 640904 - JSAutoEnterCompartment::enter. #2 crash on Fx12 with over 62K crashes in a 7 day period. Waiting for new version of add-on to get updated on AMO - need to escalate this.
- bug 572011 - Crash @ nsDiskCacheStreamIO::FlushBufferToFile - been around for a while and no progress
- bug 597260 - nsFileOutputStream::Write(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int*) - another networking issue that has been around for while without progress.
- bug 597260 - nsFileOutputStream::Write(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int*). Another top 10 issue that doesn't make progress.
QA
Aurora
Beta
- Nothing in particular to discuss (ie. QA is not currently blocked on testing anything)
RelEng
- win8
- win32-on-win64
- osx10.8 signing
Marketing/Communications
- Handing off Desktop to Laura Forrest, with official hand-off date being 6/18.
- Unclear how this affects Aurora & Beta ownership
- Laura M and Grace will continue to own Desktop through Fx 13 launch, with Laura F taking on more and more as the weeks go by.
- questions: send to pmm@mozilla.com
- Haven't gotten a naming agreement yet for new betas. Will have for sure for Thursday.
Support
Quick updates from Input: Looks like Netflix is broken in beta(?) [1] (Looks like it doesn't play in Win7, but it doesn't stop when you close tab in OSX -- this problem also happens in youtube in windows: [2]). Firebug is broken in aurora [3].
Roundtable
- Rapid Betas - any lingering questions?
- (ashughes) - not a question, but I emailed around a proposal for QA automation:
- limit locales to en-US + 1 random per platform
- limit add-on pool to top-50
- use add-on bucketing of top-10 + 10 random
- should reduce execution time to ~4 hours
- Q) Is that still too long? Is there too much risk involved in those reductions?
- (ashughes) - not a question, but I emailed around a proposal for QA automation:
- Marcia plans to have a full QA test plan for Mountain Lion soon
- We're pursuing multiple avenues for how to handle the lack of Russian users on Beta, and specifically our difficulty with reproducing Yandex Toolbar issues
- Kev will be doing outreach to Yandex devs suggesting they move away from binary components, and we'll offer code inspection to make more stability suggestions
- We're also trying to get a Russian QA contact to help reproduce crashes, and considering sending out a CTA for Russian QA testers
- Investigating decoupling Merge from Release Day: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/merge-day
- What can we do about these Radeon top crashers?
- betaN+ blocking bugs for FN14b2
- Pulling release from Android store
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