Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-07-06

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

jcristau, marcia, jorge, philipp, oana, sorina, Timea, Julia, cornel, petruta, Camy, lizzard, mboldan, bogdan, cipri, emil, ioana, carmenf,roxana, asimonca

Schedule Update

• 55.0b7 gtb today, release tomorrow (desktop+fennec)
  • EARLY_BETA flag unset

• new attempt at multiple signoffs for beta in balrog

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 3.81 (browser: 2.05, content: 1.76) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 19.35 (week before: 7.33, this time last cycle: 6.01)

[marcia]

• Crash spike that started around July 1 is starting to normalize
• Mac crash spike in yesterday's build: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378339. Patch was backed out and builds respun.
• Crash spike in 7-1 build: https://www.arewestableyet.com/dashboard/dashboard?date=2017-07-01
  • One signature was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376874, which is now resolved fixed
  • The other was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370089

• marcia checking on status of TCP Fastopen. It was supposed to be turned on, but had to be backed out due to test failures. Dragana is the contact for this
• Nightly is currently respinning due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372892

Beta

awsy rate: 0.97 (browser: 0.73, content: 0.24) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 4.84 (week before: 5.65, this time last cycle: 3.37)

[philipp] top issues in 55.0b6 with no clear path to a fix yet:

• Various JS signatures likely regressing from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654190 - 2.6% of browser crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373934
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374702
• Crashes with Firebug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1373220 - 2.2% of browser crashes
  • bug looks stalled for the past couple of weeks
• Intel graphics driver crashes with gfx.direct3d11.allow-intel-mutex on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359416 - ~2% of browser crashes
  • waiting on feedback either to switch the pref off again or to try to blocklist particular affected gpus
• Crashes with McAfee SiteAdvisor: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376514 - 1.7% of browser crashes
  • they replied today that they'd looking into the issue with a high priority
• Crash in [@ strnlen]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352916 - 1.3% of browser crashes
• Crash in [@ LongestPhaseSelfTime]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366217 - 0.8% of browser crashes
  • diagnostic asserts for this have landed on nightly 2 weeks ago - no follow up in the bug on this yet
• Crashes in BaseThreadInitThunk with Webroot SecureAnywhere: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361410 - 0.6% of browser crashes

Release

awsy rate: 0.75 (browser: 0.53, content: 0.21) telemetry (m+c-s) from monday: 3.02 (week before: 2.66, this time last cycle: 2.88)

[marcia]

• Explosive report quiet -> https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-07-05/2017-07-05.firefox.release.explosiveness.html

[philipp]

• nsIFrame::GetOffsetToCrossDocis a new (apparently build-specific) signature present in 54.0.1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378100

Mobile

awsy rate - release 0.55, beta 1.20, nightly 1.81

[marcia]

• Nightly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377149 is still the top crash and unassigned, ni on triage owner to get some traction
• #2 Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365205 is assigned, but no movement in 2 months

• Beta
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370227 is rising. Seen first as an Orange Factor
    • Will file a new bug so not to mix things up here with the test failure bug -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378822

QE

• [Cornel] WebRTC compatibility (round 2/2) completed with no issues
• [Cornel] Firefox 55.0b7 Testday scheduled for tomorrow (Jul 7)

Nightly

• [Cornel] Mid-Nightly feature sign-offs are in progress (due Jul 7)
• [Julia] Mid-Nightly sign off process skipped for DevTools Go Faster
• [Alex] Mid-Nightly sign off process skipped for Pointer Events. Will ship with 58, most probably.

[marcia]

• Feature document says SV is not testing Form auto fill with credit card support (MVP). Who is testing it?
• [Brindusa] This seems to be included in the Form Autofill MVP, and will be covered by Adrian Florinescu. This is not landed yet. For now, Adrian is testing the Form Autofill MVP - address cards.

Mobile

• [Ioana] waiting for Fennec 55.0b7
• [Oana] System Font size setting - Beta sign off (GREEN)
• [Ioana] Request for "First Party Isolation" verification in Fennec - Beta sign off (GREEN) - mail will be sent of tomorrow
• [Ioana]Tab Reordering - Ability to reorder tabs - Mid-Nightly feature sign-offs are in progress ( was signed in previous nightly)
• [Ioana] Other Mid-Nightly feature sign-offs that are in progress
  • HTTP Live Streaming for Android - mail to be sent tomorrow
  • Move Add-On to the first level menu
  • MMA SDK Integration
  • Hardware encoder for WebRTC - Sign Off scheduled for next week
  • Android WebExtension API
  • Bookmark Management
  • WebExtension Permission support - Waiting for documentation

Test Pilot

• [Paul] We are graduating 4 experiments on July 12 (Screenshots, Activity Stream, Pulse and Tab Center).
• [Paul] 3 new experiments are planned to be launched on July 24. Firefox Notes, Voice Fill and Send.