Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-01-12

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

• marcia, Andrei, Bogdan,Cornel, Iulia, jorge, nicole, blasseythanks

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

Add-ons

• [Bug 1330086] Routine Flash block.

Stability

Aurora

awsy rate: 5.36 (browser 1.06, content 4.30) telemetry m+c-s from weekend: 3.45 crashes/kuh (-0.45 to the week before, -0.97 to two weeks before) [marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320048 continues to be the top overall browser crash. Awaiting an update to 10.12.3 from Apple.

Beta

awsy rate: 0.87 (browser 0.65, content 0.22) telemetry m+c-s from weekend: 2.90 crashes/kuh (-0.19 to the week before, -0.27 to two weeks before)

[philipp] 51.0b13:

• e10s printing crash on mac os x fixed and no longer blocking 51: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324908
• js crashes related to facebook photoviewer no longer considered a blocker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308800 (2.25% of all crashes)

• startup crashes in BaseThreadInitThunk https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322554 (1.5% of browser crashes)
  • no progress in blocklisting potentially related malware addons since last meeting at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329654

• same procedure with websense once we go to 51 release like in the last versions?
  • only offering an automatic update when we detect that websense isn't present
  • add shim dll that tries to keep their crashing module out
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329692

Release

awsy rate: 0.91 (browser 0.69, content 0.22) telemetry m+c-s from weekend: 2.68 crashes/kuh (-0.04 to the week before, -0.24 to two weeks before)

[marcia]

• Explosiveness report shows some flash crash spikes and one other bug: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-01-11/2017-01-11.firefox.release.explosiveness.html. Similar spikes are observed on other branches.

Nightly

[marcia]

• #1 top crash was backed out - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329644#c7 - so things should start to look better on nightly. That signature amassed almost 2400 crashes.
• #2 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328281 is being investigated
• New crashes from Nightly and Aurora from Project Uptime: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q1#2017-01-11_-_jchen

Mobile

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• [Andrei] Timea Zsoldos has joined the Desktop Release QA Team and is currently ramping up.

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[Andrei]

• 51.0b13 signed off with no blocking issues – report: https://goo.gl/eep4VE, wiki: https://mzl.la/2jb5zNA.
  • No side effects noticed so far on regular beta builds, as a result of the funnelcake changes.
• Pre-Release feature sign offs are on track and should be done by Jan 16th, the latest.

Action items

Mobile

• Fennec 51.0b13 was signed out yesterday without major issues https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/51/Beta/13

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [marcia] Monday, January 16 is a U.S. holiday
• [Florin] January 24 is a National Holiday in Romania
  • This is also the set date for releasing Firefox 51
  • Currently the only thing we do on release day is update testing - I can make myself available to do this
  • If you have any other concerns related to this please let me know
• [Florin] Websense testing - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18n8NEimajNpnGRHdQsrrnyJ-Ufgvmpz-AXCUpVaFRMk/edit#gid=0
  • Reproduced https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304434 with Endpoint v8.2 on Fx > 47.0.2 - which is what we expected
  • Had a meeting yesterday with Websense folks - they'll give us access to more versions of their Endpoint

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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