Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-02-18

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: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

• Ioana, sylvestre, calixte, kairo, andrei, jorge, philipp, teodora, florin, mihai, Bogdan, ryanvm, elan, mtabara, lmandel, ritu

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• b7 gtb today
  • still need to deal with uplifts :/
  • Will contain the Hello changes!
• I didn't send an email about upload of beta 6 android but we are live since Tuesday
• ios 2.0 uploaded a few seconds ago

Add-ons

• [Bug 1247032] Latest Flash plugin block now live.

Stability

• Socorro crash-stats issues were at least to some degree caused by Firefox (see bug 1248587) and are fixed now on the server-side by ignoring those huge memory reports.

Aurora

• Overall rate: 1.7 - browser: 1.0, content: 0.7 - yellow
• No significant changes, top crashes are still bug 1245743 (sec bug, no one yet assigned), bug 1232229 (patch about to land), bug 1247741 (assigned, tracked)

Beta

• Overall rate: 1.5 - browser: 1.4, content: 0.1 - red
• bug 1247380 (gfxContext::PushGroupAndCopyBackground) is 5.7% of 45.0b6 non-e10s data, 6.3% overall, fix should be in b7
• bug 1232229 (FinalizeTypedArenas) is 3.6%, instrumentation and work continuing
• HTTP shutdownhangs are ~6%, a lot of work going on around those
• bug 1248489 (sanitize aborts) are 2.1%
• bug 1248909 (mozilla::TrackBuffersManager::CompleteResetParserState) is new and 0.9%, diagnostic patches also in b7
• plugin crashes going down, not fixed on Adobe side yet but new signature is not found with Firefox versions that disabled Async Drawing.

Release

• Overall rate: 1.1 - yellow
• rate increases is mostly in various shutdownhangs
• HTTP shutdownhangs still ~8%
• bug 1247380 is 1.9% but believed to be just moved from other signatures

Mobile

• data improving across channels, might be some external influence

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• starting to include SoftVision QA status in Thursday channel meeting

Nightly

• [Andrei] [read-only] Mihai (:mboldan) took ownership of the new Responsive Design View in terms of QA and started working on the available fixes
• [Ioana] [read only] : still few features present in AHA - will be keep an bugzilla and other mails/channels

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [Andrei] [read-only] APZ and WebVR have been successfully signed off, mid-Aurora

Beta

• [Andrei] e10s Manual Functional Testing wrapped up for Beta 45 – https://goo.gl/vsm584
• [Andrei] 45.0b7 build validation will be focused on Hello as a system add-on (asuming an xpi is available by then)
• [Andrei] [read-only] Firefox 45 Beta 7 Testday to be held this Friday – http://tinyurl.com/zlnhsll
• [Andrei] [read-only] Started testing stub installers on 45.0b6, we should be done by tomorrow – https://goo.gl/p3WlXI
• [Ioana] [read only] Fennec 45 Beta 6 signed off without major issues.

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [lmandel] Test plan reviews scheduled with all engineering teams over the next week.
• [kairo] we canceled our usual QE status meeting on Wednesdays and are rolling that in here as it's interesting for the whole audience in here

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

• enabling rust+
  • we will ship some features developed in rust in 46 (aurora currently)
  • but we have issues with jemalloc (rust and firefox both ship it)

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/44-0-Post-Mortem
• Let's do it Tuesday 2/23 right after channel meeting.

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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