Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-01-10

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

Attendees

blassey, dveditz, lmandel, julien, ritu, marcia, mtabara, philipp, elan, nicole, milan, jst

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 51.0b13 (Desktop) pushed to Beta channel
• 51.0b13 (Mobile) gtb today and will most likely be pushed to GP tomorrow 1/11

• 51 blocker
  • Top FB photoviewer crash - bug 1308800

Stability

* flash symbols not uploading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323808
[marco] I've been trying to help the Adobe girl, but I can't do much more without help from Socorro

[philipp] recent telemetry rates look messy (missing usage hours between dec 22-29): https://telemetry.mozilla.org/crashes/ 

• • [marco] they are being backfilled because they added the GPU process crashes
  • it's not just that people spent Christmas with their families instead of their computers?

Aurora

awsy rate: 5.78 (browser 1.07, content 4.71)

[marcia]

• Filed #3 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329966 - Crash in shutdownhang | mozilla::CondVar::Wait | nsEventQueue::GetEvent | nsThread::nsChainedEventQueue::GetEvent

Beta

awsy rate: 0.87 (browser 0.63, content 0.23)

[philipp] 51.0b12

• last remaining blocker for 51: crashes with facebook photo viewer (2.4% of crashes)
  • js::IsDerivedProxyObject / js::SetLengthProperty https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308800

• startup crash in BaseThreadInitThunk (2.1% of browser crashes) - (this one is on release too)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554
  • possibly malware-triggered; blocklisting for some correlated extensions is tried at bug 1329654

• increase in crashes from hitman.pro alert (another 3rd party security product :-/) in 51.0 beta cycle (0.54% of crashes)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1300480
  • Blocklisting patch up for review by BDS in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329994

[marcia]

• Top Fennec Crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307858 is fixed in Beta 11

Add-ons

• Bug 1329015 Release 51 add-on expansion landing for next beta (12th). Low risk - known type of update ("allow list") - Release expansion based on users with 50+ users in Beta.
• for ESR - how does that work for making sure right configuration is there? want to make sure system add-on targets only MPC=true and webextensions in 52 release.
• Ritu is checking if the system add-on is shipping with ESR 52... enables activating or not e10s. For add-ons we want the 50 criteria of e10s only for MPC=true and webextensions if possible

Release

awsy rate: 0.91 (browser 0.68, content 0.24)

[marcia]

• 1. 3 top crash is Firefox crashing on quit - seems to happen on all platforms - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328147 is one bug for Linux, there are bugs for Windows and Mac as well
  • Mac bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308629
  • Windows bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135562
  • Randell Jesup has done work around MSG shutdown in the past, try pinging him?

Nightly

[marcia]

• New Top Crash in Accessibility: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329644. Backout was done and Nightlies respun.
  • Two of the top 5 browser crashes are Accessibility crashes
• Several other unowned top browser crashes:
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328281 - Crash in shutdownhang | js::TraceLoggerThread::~TraceLoggerThread

Mobile

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 50.1.0 post-mortem a week from now - Tuesday 1/10/17
• https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/50-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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