Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-05-05

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

Ninu, Mihai, Bogdan, Andrei, Iulia, kmoir,lizzard,philipp, teodora, ioana, ritu, ryanvm, Florin, jorge, Ada, Mihai B

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 46.0.1 released on Tuesday
  • Only turned on updates for the ~22MM instances already on 46.0
  • Sync server team (jrgm, jbuck) are still evaluating the results ( bug 1268652)
  • also, we are now blocking gtk2 users from updating to 46.x: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1270358
  • Should be ready to enable updates some time on Thurs.

• 47.0b3 GTB today and pushed tomm pending SV sign-offs

Add-ons

Stability

no ADI numbers (& therefore no crash rates for particular versions) available today https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1270484

Aurora

Beta

47.0b2:

• shutdownhang in mozilla::net::nsHttpConnectionMgr::Shutdown Bug 1158189 - shutdownhang in mozilla::net::nsHttpConnectionMgr::Shutdown() regressing this beta with 22% of crashes
  • underlying Bug 698882 - Deadlock in nsSocketTransportService [tbird] PR_SetPollableEvent backed out for beta 3 again
  • networking team would be very interested in looking at a http log if anybody can reproduce the issue
• various signatures for media related crash Bug 1268379 - startup crash in @0x0 | CClientContextActivator::CreateInstance making up 3% of crashes
  • fix is approved to go into beta 3

• TppTimerpExecuteCallback https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964351 making up 0.9% of crashes
  • old bug which seems to have crept back this cycle; apparently related to ATI graphics cards
• intel driver crash during media playback/decoding https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269204 making up 0.5% of crashes
  • apparently regressing in firefox 47; bug got triaged and needs owner
• `anonymous namespace::WorkerJSRuntime::~WorkerJSRuntime https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265035 making up 0.5% of crashes
  • resolved in 48, uplift request pending
• gfx crash mozilla::layers::CompositorD3D9::FailedToResetDevice https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254400 is 0.3%
  • resolved in 48, fix might be upliftable

• shutdown hang https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258009 blocking, but already has people working on it is at 0.7%

Release

46.0.1:

• fix for page loading issue (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268922 ) also reduced related shutdown hang signature (from #2/1.9% -> #12/0.9%)

• gfx crash _dwrite_draw_glyphs_to_gdi_surface_gdi https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726206 is 1.0% of crashes
• mainly os x crash js::jit::AssemblerX86Shared::bind https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124397 is 0.8% of crashes

Mobile

• Nothing new to report since Tuesday's channel meeting

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• [desktop] [Andrei] Dot releases successfully signed off thanks to the Engineering Team, who picked up 45.1.1esr for us.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [mobile][ioana] Firefox 48 Aurora was SignOff with the recommendation to keep updates closed
• Bug 1265486 - Mixed localization in 48 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265486#c35
  • it's comment 29 moz-aurora commit
• Bug 1046709 - Local vs. remote visits: Data layer, ContentProvider and Sync updates https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046709#c150

Beta

• [desktop] [Andrei] 47.0b2 signed off - no outstanding bugs uncovered.
• [desktop] [Andrei] 47 Beta 3 Testday this Friday (May 6th) - details http://tinyurl.com/jgbc4r4.
• [mobile][ioana] Fennec 47 Beta 2 was ok and was signed off

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Telemetry Experiments

• Beta47
  • Plugin content blocking (Bug 1248813)
    • Start date: 47.0b2 ; End date: 47.0b8 (gtb)
  • E10s turned on for 20% beta population (Bug ???)
    • Start date: 47.0b1 ; End date: 47.0b6

System add-on updates

• Hello 1.3 to ship-to-release-Fx46 on May 9th
  • This will most likely slip by a few days based on issues identified by QA.

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

2 weeks from now Tuesday May 17, at 10:30am PST, just after the channel meeting (we moved the date out a week at a request from cloud services team) https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/46-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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