Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-05-09

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: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Attendees

julien, erin, philipp, mahe, lizzard,dveditz, ritu, shell

Schedule Update

• 54.0b6 desktop+fennec shipped

• tls1.3 being enabled on release (slow rollout)

• Fennec 53.0.2, desktop 53.0.2, released last Friday (Fennec at 100% update since Sat. am) also ESR 52.1.1

Stability

• Slowness issue due to 3rd party bitdefender program/signature update is getting virulent in the past few hours - also manifesting itself in shutdownhangs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363332
  • less urgent now that they have rolled-back that signature update

Nightly

awsy rate: 2.17 (browser: 1.45, content: 0.72)

[marcia]

• Nightly rate is up from what was reported Thursday (1.83)
• Some NECKO changes landed on Friday in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188435, and there was some fallout from that. Dragana gave me a heads up on Friday to be on the lookout for crashes

• • is this nightly only or is it expected to ride to beta55?
  • encourage patrick/dragana to pref off
• Filed lots of bugs in Uptime - see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Uptime/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q2#2017-05-08_-_marcia

Beta

awsy rate: 0.74 (browser: 0.52, content: 0.22)

[philipp] 54.0b5:

• spike in intel graphics driver crashes successfully addressed in beta 5 by flipping the "gfx.direct3d11.allow-intel-mutex" pref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359416

• (assigned, with patch) Crash in mozilla::MP4Demuxer::NotifyDataArrived regressing in 54: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1357040 - 0.9% of browser crashes
• cubeb crash regressions that are already fixed upstream:
  • (assigned) Crash in `anonymous namespace::wasapi_stream_start: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358896 - 0.7% of browser crashes, 1.4% of content crashes
  • (assigned) Crash in audiounit_setup_stream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358896 - mac only

• (assigned) Crashes correlated to Avast regressing since 53: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346012 - 1.6% of browser crashes, 5.3% of content crashes
• (assigned) rust crash in std::sys::imp::thread_local::create since 51: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320134 - 2.8% of content crashes
  • needs diagnostic patch in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348747 reviewed to move forward

Release

awsy rate: 0.67 (browser: 0.48, content: 0.19)

[philipp]

• (assigned) mac os crashes from nsAuthSambaNTLM::SpawnNTLMAuthHelper: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359624 - 10% of mac crashes
• (unassigned) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361432 - 7% of mac crashes

Mobile

awsy rate: 0.69

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/53-0-Post-Mortem