Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-01-07

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• 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: ReleaseCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

philipp, kairo, jorge, jlund, ritu, winston, lizzard, Pike, brad, fabio, hal, ryanvm, sylvestre, mihai, lmandel, rail

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 43.0.4 (build3) released yesterday Jan 6.
  • SHA-1 TLS signing re-enabled. Great post about it here: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/01/06/man-in-the-middle-interfering-with-increased-security/
  • All 43 users should be updating to 43.0.4.
• youtube hotfix (reversing our temporary user agent hack)
  • Waiting for a confirmation that Youtube is now OK
  • Hotfix on staging, waiting for verification
• Turn safebrowsing back on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237103 Accidentally turned off for 43. Test coverage will be (re)added for this.
  • hotfix ready
  • waiting for signature before going on staging
  • after that, need a verification before going live

• 44
  • Only approving limited # of uplifts - fixes for critical regression, sec issue, stability
  • Most uplifts will be denied as we are "sort of" entering RC mode
  • gtb Beta7 today (desktop + mobile)
  • l10n goodies in 44 as drivers:
    • https for Baidu in China, qxl (shopping) fix for Norway. Few corrections to errors in top locales like German/French/Italian

Add-ons

• Bug 1235435 - New Flash plugin blocks will be pushed to production today.

Stability

• still no (accurate) crash rates due to bug 1236943, but the issue has been found and solved for new data coming in. Previous data back to Jan 1 will be reprocessed and then we'll have good data even for those days.

Aurora

• ipc:FatalError crashes and bug 1232229 (or bug 1011075) are leading stats: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?product=Firefox&version=45.0a2&process_type=browser&process_type=content&_facets=signature#facet-signature

Beta

• bug 1158189 (HTTP shutdownhang) is 3.2% of 44.0b6 data, making it the #2 crash after OOM|small.
• bug 1212133 (a11y::DocAccessible::RemoveDependentIDsFor) is 2.2% - Fix will be in 44.0b7
• bug 1233481 (js::AutoEnterOOMUnsafeRegion::crash) is 2.1%

Release

• No sign of the GData crash in 43.0.4.

Mobile

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Tues. Jan. 12 - 8:30amPST we will discuss SHA-1 postmortem Tues. Jan 12 - 10:30am PST after the channel meeting we will continue discussion of the rest of 43 and come up with more action items. https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/43-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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