Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-08-22

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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

marcia, lizzard, jcristau, elan, nicole, mahe kmoir, ryanvm, shell, thomas, tom

Schedule Update

• 55.0.3 building now for bug 1389160
  • should unblock updates from 54 for windows users
  • don't forget the WNP!
  • What % of mac, linux users are updating to 55.0.2? 0% now, we can fix that now

• released 56.0b4 monday
• Should release 56.0b5 desktop beta, dev ed, soon today
• Fennec 56.0b5 may be delayed till tomorrow

• System addon for screenshots coming (today?)

Add-ons

• awaiting signoffs in balrog for screenshots 10.12.0 (100%) and tls13-middlebox (5%) for beta56
  • screenshots 10.12.0 is also in 56.0b4

Shield studies

• Quick review of shield studies or experiments.
• Is anything waiting for signoff or testing?
• Shield studies in flight: https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 2.10 (browser 0.77, content: 1.32) telemetry (m+c-s) from saturday: 3.97

[marcia]

• Rate looks pretty good. Some new bugs filed in Nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q3
• Explosiveness reports shows some webrender bugs: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-08-21/2017-08-21.firefox.nightly.explosiveness.html

Beta

awsy rate: 1.02 (browser 0.74, content 0.28) telemetry (m+c-s) from saturday: 5.53

[marcia]

• New crashes in Beta 3
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392375
• Top browser crash in Beta 4: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389021
• Screenshots related crash new to Beta 4: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392653 ni on :kmag

Release

awsy rate: 0.81 (browser 0.57, content 0.24) telemetry (m+c-s) from saturday: 3.75

[marcia]

• New Linux startup crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391969, #4 overall browser crash in 55.0.2
• Explosivness report looks fairly quiet: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-08-21/2017-08-21.firefox.release.explosiveness.html

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.66, beta 0.97, nightly 10.10

[marcia]

• Beta
  • Top beta crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340959 has a need info about changing the memory requirement for Fennec
• Release
  • Top release crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370751 is correlated to Flash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 is #2 top browser crash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382335 is the #3 top browser crash
• Nightly - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392078 bug spiked a few days ago. Cannot be backed out due to a database schema change, so it was fixed. This caused the crash rate to soar

RelEng

qe and relman please review and Firefox 56.0b5 sign off https://aus4-admin.mozilla.org/rules/scheduled_changes

Roundtable

[marcia]

• Apple Developer Beta 7 was pushed yesterday.
• Android Oreo was pushed out to Pixel devices yesterday

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

55 post mortem next week (Tuesday) when Sylvestre is back from PTO https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/55-0-Post-Mortem