Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-04-26

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

lizzard, elan, kmoir, philipp, marco, kbrosnan, RyanVM, jorge, lmandel, sylvestre, calixte, guigs, marcia

• Please welcome:
  • Marcia Knous as nightly release management
  • Marco Castelluccio will help to develop stability tools with Calixte

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 46.0 live
  • Android - Sylvestre made a mistake, No staged rollout (it is out at 100%)
    • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/46.0/releasenotes/ (typo "Keep track of track of tab history under memory pressure")
  • Desktop
    • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/46.0/releasenotes/ - GTK-3 \o/

Congrats to releng, build promotion now on release....!

• We have 11 tracked bugs, mostly crashes
  • one planned system addon update to Hello (without needing a release)
  • We may have a 46 dot release next week but it isn't certain.

WAY TO GO LIZ ON THE LATEST RELEASE HAT!!

• ESR
  • 45.1
    • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/45.1.0/releasenotes/ Security + stability
  • 38.8
    • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.8.0/releasenotes/

• 47 beta 1 built but needs a second build for the partials
  • release notes are reviewed and ready, will go live once 47.0b1 is signed off and pushed to beta channel

• 48 aurora update disabled
  • Top crash: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267364 approved
  • l10n issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265486

These issues delay aurora release. So we are slightly behind schedule for 48 aurora.

Add-ons

• Bug 1267318 - Old add-on signatures being invalidated. We will probably might have to do a dot release for Firefox 46 and ESR. And likely for mobile.
  • Can we just resign the addons insteads?
  • dveditz and andy said this yesterday that wouldn't need a chemspill and wasn't a release blocker (it also affects users on 45.0.2 and older)
  • Can we push the change to the restriction to 47? (lmandel vidyo is borked. no mic or video right now) - how many addons are we talking about (we can also take this offline to a thread on r-d) (Andym is looking.)
  • What happens with the addons if they are invalidated? Can they still update to a newer version?

Stability

• FYI. Project Uptime will be investigating crashes in nightly from dbaron's page, http://dbaron.org/mozilla/crashes-by-build
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime
  • Talk to njn about project uptime as well
• Uptime should address items like
  • ensure we have a good crash rate (with bsmedberg)
  • better identification of crashes that need to be fixed (weight crashes appropriately)
  • make crashes more actionable
  • get on top of newly identified crashes
  • develop tools to assist with all the above
  • (maybe) some crash fixing as well

Aurora

Overall rate (still for 47.0a2): 1.56 - browser: 0.9, content: 0.66 - yellow (target: 1.5)

• volume of crashiness on aurora before the merge to 46 beta was 1.67

• mail from dbaron to r-d - biggest issue merged from 48 nightly seems to be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267364 (restricted bug)
  • 26,6% of crashes in 48.0a1 20160425030548
• second top crash is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266870
  • various related signatures make up 13% of crashes in 48.0a1 20160425030548

Beta

Overall rate (still for 46.0b): 1.15 - yellow (target: 1.0)

• volume of crashiness on beta before the merge to 45.0 was 1.19

Release

Overall rate (still for 45): 0.97 - yellow (target: 0.95)

concerns from very early 46.0 data:

• regressing js::wasm::EnsureSignalHandlersInstalled startup crash in 46 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267696

• startup crash on os x (caused by malware) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1262787
  • was declining during the beta cycle, but probably only because it drove affected users away
  • maybe add it as a known issue into rel-notes proactively?

Mobile

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

• prototype stability dashboard from bsmedberg...kairo signed off is there someone who understands it at the same level (erin) Can we judge/analyze e10s vs. non-e10s crash data from this?

Special Topics

• FYI: Switchboard is on release now ready for mobile a/b testing. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1253588

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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