Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-04-21

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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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

lizzard, philipp, Florin, Ninu, Ada,Cornel, Ioana, Teodora, Mihai Pop, Andrei, RyanVM, lmandel, sylvestre, rail, kairo, jorge, ritu, Bogdan,

Schedule Update

• 46.0RC2 (build 4) desktop should be live on beta soon
• 46.0b13 fennec will likely be ready for beta soon
• We are still on track for merge/release day next week.

Stability

Aurora

• Overall rate: 1.5 - browser: 0.8, content: 0.7 - yellow (target: 1.5)
• Same as Tuesday, bug 1264454 (GTK 3.20) and bug 1229252 (ESET) are the main concerns.

Beta

• Overall rate: 1.2 - yellow (target: 1.0)
  • Telemetry-based data is getting ready to be used in conjunction with Socorro-based data for beta analysis in the upcoming cycle, still pondering the exact format to use there, may experiment with different ones.
    • GMP plugin crash - caught this with telemetry and got a last minute patch. (3 million video plugin crashes....)
  • No change in RC compared to b11 in terms of specific crash data.
    • Sanitize AsyncShutdown crashes of bug 1258350 continue to be a concern (overall AsyncShutdown is 2.2%)

Release

• Overall rate: 0.96 - yellow (target: 0.95)
• No change from Tuesday.

Mobile

• Android continues to look good

QE

• Please remember to test and mark affected/unaffected for new regressions (and also add the regression keyword)
  • [Andrei] We'll be extra careful.
• [desktop] [Andrei] 46.0 RC2 (build4) is GREEN for release. Testing has also been started on ESR 45.1 and ESR 38.8.
  • All the security fixes that required our attention, per :mwobensmith's request, have been verified.
• [desktop] [Andrei] FHR v2 eol testing completed, no blockers found - details here: https://goo.gl/44mLXs.
• [desktop] [Andrei] We received a new request from :ianb and :mardak for testing a specific Hello functionality - details here: https://bugzil.la/1239965.
  • We don't have the bandwidth to carry out this request, at least in the upcoming days, as we're currently focusing on the RC and ESR candidates.
  • I've spoken with :RaresB, who's leading the EngQA team, to see if they might be able to cover it in our stead.
• [mobile] Working on sining off Fennec 46 Beta 13 and preparing for the RC build

Nightly

• [desktop] [Andrei] Hello 1.3 is currently being tested by the EngQA team on Fx48, as at this point we only have the bandwidth to assist/review the testing conducted for it.
• [desktop] [Andrei] Our team is going to help test a new project: Devtools.html (Fx49). We're currently discussing details with Marco Mucci.
• [mobile] From Margaret's mail: There is some database migration code that landed in yesterday's Nightly (bug 1046709), and it's causing crashes (bug 1266162), but also severe performance problems (bug 1266232).

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [desktop] [Andrei] Synced Tabs Sidebar (Fx47) and Embedded YouTube rewrite (Fx47) have been signed off pre-beta.
  • Synced Tabs Sidebar is currently YELLOW, as some bug fixes have not yet been uplifted to Aurora.
• [desktop] [Bogdan] Per-monitorDPI: all major issues are fixed in Nightly, a few of them need to be uplifted to Aurora as well if we are to reach 47 Beta.
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264193
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265977
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264196

Beta

• [mobile] working on signing off Fennec 46 Beta 13

User Advocacy

• interesting report from UA survey that the majority of beta users surveyed didn't realize they were on beta, and they also complain that they get too many updates. (!)
  • There are different ways to address this feedback - make updates quieter, improve beta stability, move people to release

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

• Bug 1265944 - Enable rust for win32 on Firefox 47
  • Small chance of increased OOM crashes. Asking devs whether this could affect e10s experiment and their goal of investigating and reducing OOM crashes
  • Pilot code only affects video playback scenarios. Waiting to confirm that.