Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2013-09-26

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am PDT, and Thursday at 2:00pm PDT
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• San Francisco Office: SFO-7I Independent (Tues), Noise Pop (Thurs)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Previous Actions

• akeybl/blassey (and maybe QA) - earlier permissions checks need to be implemented
• ashughes to follow up on QA of WebAudio

Schedule Update (akeybl)

• FF24.0 Unthrottling
  •  :bajaj will have a bug ready
  • unthrottle Monday, mitigate pain for small % of users, also help the SUMO team's sanity
• No other burning issues except Norton
  • Check stability section
• FF25.0b3 for desktop about to go to build, released tomorrow

Add-ons

• [Bug 874513] Hotfix pushed to prod.
• [Bug 470936] - Blocklist old versions of VLC plugin. Current proposal is to CTP block versions 2.0.5 and lower. (Release dates are available here: http://www.videolan.org/news.html)

Stability

• A mistaken configuration change caused us to not use symbols correctly in the last two days, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921042 - work is underway to fix that.

Aurora

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916836 (mozilla::MP3Buffer::ExtractFrameHeader) needs uplift, approval requested
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921190 (js::NukeCrossCompartmentWrappers) is #3, needs investigation

Beta

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920725 (nsHtml5StreamParser::WriteStreamBytes) is #4 on 25.0b

Release

• Norton Issue for Fx24.0
  • Their update is expected to go out Monday and within 2-3 days they will have all users updated

Throttling options :

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917792
    • #4 top-crasher
    • crashes per install : https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=Firefox&range_value=7&range_unit=days&date=2013-09-26&signature=Interpret&version=Firefox%3A24.0
      • ~5000 *** users impacted, current population **** ( https://metrics.mozilla.com/pentaho/content/pentaho-cdf-dd/Render?solution=metrics2&path=%2Ftwitter%2Ffirefox&file=fx_release.wcdf) [ 0.05% impacted ] [Alex , Kairo please call out the numbers as needed )
      • it's ~2.5% of our 24.0 crashes so far
    • QA is still trying to reproduce, have been hearing a bit of pushback but I have told them to have something by channel meeting
    • ~280- crash comments, mostly leading to general browsing (maps, mail, video etc)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918496
    • #16 top-crasher
      • https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=Firefox&range_value=7&range_unit=days&date=2013-09-26&signature=JS_NewStringCopyZ%28JSContext*%2C+char+const*%29&version=Firefox%3A24.0
  • No user comments

Based on the above(if my stats are right, need a second set of eyes, Kairo ?) and keeping in mind they are going to have a fix soon we should be able to manange this for few days: Else Second Option for Friday :

• 100% Unthrottle OSX
•  %50 Windows to mitigate
• Completely unthrottle Monday when Norton rolls out ?
• Waiting to hear QA expereince about the crash as requested in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917792#c15
• SUMO reports ?

Metro

Mobile

• crash rate is much improved 3.5 per 100 ADU for beta down from 13
• need to get https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903993 uplifted

QA

QAwanted

Verification Needed

Aurora (juanb)

Beta (ashughes)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920725 crash in nsHtml5StreamParser::WriteStreamBytes

• • highly correlated to flipora.com -- QA has been unable to reproduce -- need Engr

Notice: Tracy will be covering 25b4 next week as ashughes is on PTO Sept 28-Oct 2 ahead of the Summit

Metro (juanb)

Mobile (kbrosnan)

RelEng (nthomas/catlee/rail)

• rollout of Win64-rev2 build platform
  • trunk branches after the Summit
  • uplift to aurora, beta, etc.. ahead of normal train schedule
• New authenticode certificates deployed today
• Balrog will be in production for the nightly updates on Monday

Marketing/Communications

No update today - apologies, have to run

Advocacy (Tyler today)

Other than Norton, no major concerns for Desktop or Mobile

Metrics (Thu)

Roundtable

[Read only, ping elan with questions]

• Head's up: we have obtained legal sign-off (for nightly only) we're aiming to land Shumway in nightly (preff'd off) before Oct 1st. We're tracking the following blocker Bug 921152 - Shumway Addon doesn't show any content after the landing of bug 790483 (which *may* be related to Bug 920927 - Fix plugin overlay handling ?)

Here's the bug tracking the landing, stay tuned for patches authored by Yury here in the next day or 2: Bug 904346 - (shumway) [meta] add built-in SWF support to Firefox with Shumway .005

Actions

• kairo to discuss crash/adi data with akeybl, maybe file bug about issues with affected population