Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-09-20

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

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

callek, catlee, rail, mihai, bhearsum, philipp, marcia, elan, kbrosnan, ritu, lizzard, andy, marco, mtabara, RyanVM

Schedule Update

RELEASE DAY!

* Released desktop (RC4)  Firefox 49.0 to users (25% update rate)
* Released mobile (RC3) Firefox 49.0 to users (throttling on google play did not work, though; it's at 100%)
* about to release ESR 45.4.0 
* \o/  Silly hat of the release day: Unicorn horn + tiara necklace + cat wearing bow tie

Beta50

• We are still fixing build bustages, hoping to gtb 50.b1 today afternoon

Add-ons

   49 e10s add-ons cohort

   50 e10s bigger add-ons cohort

   Patch incoming for that might be a candidate for triggering a point release

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303418

   slightly less important now that the pinning is occurring

   New flash block incoming end of this week or start of next: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1302525

Stability

Aurora

[marcia]

• Top crash in Aurora is a Flash crash - http://bit.ly/2d1rghh, but it appears it is only 25 installations

Beta

overall rate 1.0 (browser 0.87, content 0.13)

Release

overall rate 0.92 (browser 0.77, content 0.15)

[philipp]

• e10s crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294719 is spiking in the last couple of days (8.5% of all content crashes on 48.0.2)
  • mainly russian users seem to be affected (this is 50% of all content crashes if you just look at "ru" locale builds) and comments seem to suggest it's related to a particular webmail site - mail.ru?
• spike in french users with trusteer crashing over the weekend https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303531
  • seems to have been successfully addressed by trusteer

Nightly

[marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291084 continues to be the top crash on Nightly
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303526 - New accessibility crash.

Mobile

[marcia]

• Didn't see any new crashes to call out for this meeting

QE

• e10s hang on tab switch ? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1300411
  • [Andrei] We'll start planning a testing session for this.

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [desktop] [Andrei] Firefox 50 pre-Beta sign offs almost completed.
  • [desktop] [Iulia] Windows Child Mode - Pre-Beta Sign off - Green. Apart from a few issues that are not related to this feature, there were no new issues uncovered during testing, just a few already known, low-impact bugs.

Beta

• [desktop] [Andrei] Firefox 49 has been spot-checked on macOS 10.12, to gain more confidence before the OS is released on Sep 20.

Mobile

• Fennec 49 RC build 2 signed off.
• Some features got postpone but we are on track now on wiki and AHA

RelEng

• XP and Vista users get SHA1 signed 49.0 repacks instead of 43.0.1 now \o/ \o/

Roundtable

• [marcia] Read only FYI: MacOS Sierra shipped today