Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-06-22

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

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Attendees

• Callek, jcristau, Ninu, lmandel, marcia, calixte, Florin, adrian, bogdan_maris, bogdans, brindusa, camelia, carmen, ciprian g, ciprian m, CristiComo, elan, gabriela, grover, hani, jorge, lizzard, mahe, mboldan, mihai, nyee, oana, ovidiu, paul, philipp, rares, ryanvm, sorina, sylvestre, vlad, ritu

Schedule Update

• 54 desktop updates at 100% for ~40 hours
• plan to gtb 54.0.1 next Tuesday to fix several bugs

• 55 at 25% for ~48 hours, more below
• 55b4 gtb later today, first time with multiple signoff in balrog

• week of July 4th, we'll have just one beta on thursday/friday

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 4.87 (browser: 2.44, content: 2.43) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 6.93 (week before: 5.59, this time last cycle: 4.66)

[marcia]

• Nightly rate is getting higher - content crashes 2.43. IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill has over 32K crashes
• Top crashes -
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374675 has been fixed by backout
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373540 was resolved fixed but crashes are still occurring. Dev indicates those crashes will be addressed in another bug
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374984 also high in content crashes
• AI: marcia to email the stability list

Beta

awsy rate: 0.86 (browser: 0.60, content: 0.26) <- still mostly 54.0b contributing to that telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 8.19 (week before: 3.36, this time last cycle: 3.80)

[philipp]

• telemetry rate for 55.0b still looks fairly high - when i attempt to manually calculate an ADI based rate just for 55.0b3 it's >2 too
• share of browser shutdownhang signatures has doubled in comparison to 54.0b cycle
  • is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368983 related?

• Top crashes in 55.0b3 that could need more attention/action:
• (Unassigned) Crashes with Firebug addon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373220 - 4% of browser crashes
• (Assigned) Necko crashes in [@ strnlen ]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352916 - 2.8% of browser crashes
• (Unassigned) Crashes with McAfee Siteadvisor Addon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1335350 - 1.3% of browser crashes
• (Unassigned) Crashes in nvwgf2um.dll | CContext::RelocateVideoFuncs on Windows 8: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375151 - 1.2 % of browser crashes
• (Unassigned) Crashes in js::Scope::clone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367896 - 1.1% of browser crashes
• (Unassigned) Crashes in js::XDRState<T>::codeUint32: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374702 - 0.9% of browser crashes
• (Unassigned) Shutdownhang |...| mozilla::MainThreadIdlePeriod::GetIdlePeriodHint: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375503 - 2.8% of browser crashes

Release

awsy rate: 0.75 (browser: 0.55, content: 0.20) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 2.91 (week before: 20.17, this time last cycle: 2.32)

[marcia]

• Explosiveness report shows a few new bugs: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-06-21/2017-06-21.firefox.release.explosiveness.html. Gerry filed several of them
• #2 overall crash is Flash F1398665248_____________________________
• #3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347984. This one seems stalled

Mobile

awsy rate - release 0.56, beta 0.88, nightly 1.49

[marcia]

• Fennec release shows some new bugs: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-06-21/2017-06-21.fennecandroid.release.explosiveness.html
• Fennec nightly and beta rates look pretty good

QE

• [Florin] New team member Gabi Cheta - replaces Paul Silaghi in the Release QA Desktop team
• Signed off Beta 2 and 3 - 4 is scheduled for tomorrow
• Other requests that we completed this week - WebRTC Compatibility round 1 and Nightly OS X TC migration

Nightly

• [Brindusa]
• Working on Nightly 56 build validation - 1st sign-off - still in progress. Tomorrow, we will send the sign-off.
• Two new bugs were logged - one of them crash on Ubuntu - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375449

[marcia] I didn't get a Mac update for today, but I did receive a Windows one. I now see the RelEng note about freezing Mac nightlies

Mobile

• [Ninu]
• Signed off 55.0b3 with no major issues
• Signed off today the 1st part of the 56.0a1 Pre-Check session
• One critical QA blocker on Nightly ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375401 ) that requires immediate attention since it is also on GPlay
  • [marcia] My bug might be a dupe: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375519

RelEng

• Froze OSX Nightlies to switch to OSX Nightly Builds (Gecko 56) being cross-compiled and on taskcluster, expect to re-enable Nightly OSX Updates today.
  • Thank you to everyone who helped to make this happen!

\o/ does this mean i get another 100 mac minis???? -> The mac builders are on much older rev5 hardware, so no :(

Roundtable

• [Florin] Are we holding the meeting next week?
  • who's coming to SF from softvision? \o/
    • Engineering QA - Brindusa Tot, Paul Oiegas, Adrian Florinescu, Roxana Leitan, Vlad Bacia, Stefan Georgiev, Justin Williams
    • Release QA Desktop - Alexandru Simonca, Cristian Comorasu, Cornel Ionce
    • Release QA Mobile - Ioana Chiorean, Sorina Florean, Simion Basca (EngQA - iOS)
    • Platform QA - Cristian Chiorean, Andrei Filip, Roxana Robotin, Silviu Checherita, Jacob Johanson,
    • Add-ons QA - Vasilica Mihasca (Tamas), Valentina Peleskei (Virlics), Madalin Cotetiu
    • Other teams - Bogdan (Andi) Postelnicu, Dragos Crisan, Ionut Goldan, Viorela Ioia,

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Retrospective about 54 Go-Live scheduled Thursday 6/29 at 9:30am Pacific https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/54-0-Post-Mortem