Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-08-24

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, lizzard,kmoir, avaida, bsurd, elan, , jorge, ryanvm, ninu, ioana, Cristian, Alexandru, Timea, petruta,Roxana, mahe, Julia, Thomas, mboldan, oanah, adrian_sv, nicole, carmenf

Schedule Update

• 55.0.3 gtb later today
  • https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/55.0.3/releasenotes/

• 56.0b6 gtb later today

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: 2.24 (browser 0.87, content: 1.37)

[marcia]

• New Nightly Bugs filed
  • Dom Workers bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393462
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393328 - Likely an Apple bug, but needs follow up

Beta

awsy rate: 1.09 (browser 0.80, content 0.28)

[marcia]

• Explosiveness report: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/release-mgmt/2017-08-23/2017-08-23.firefox.beta.explosiveness.html
• Beta rate is slightly higher than what was reported Tuesday
• New Beta 5 bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393451
• Top Beta 5 bugs
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389021 - Fix just checked in to Beta

Release

awsy rate: 0.78 (browser 0.55, content 0.23)

[marcia]

• Not much new to report since Tuesday's meeting. The rate still looks good.

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.65, beta 0.92, nightly 9.29

• Release
  • Filed new bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393452. Need to figure out who to ni

• Beta
  • Fennec beta 5 just went out
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340959 continues to be the top crash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 occupies the #2 and #3 spot in Beta 3

• Nightly
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392716 is still at the top of Fennec nightly. Work is continuing and there are other bugs. The rate is still high because of this issue.

QE

Nightly

• Mid-Nightly feature sign offs
  • [Julia] DevTools system add-on - Waiting for Engineering to land the blocking bugs https://bugzil.la/1369801,1378397,1361080. The Mid-Nightly sign off will be most likely dropped due to the lack of progress on the implementation process.
  • [Mihai] Mid-Nightly signoff for File read access restrictions (Linux) - missed
  • [petruta] APZ keyboard and Autoscrolling mid-Nightly testing is almost done. No blocking issues so far.

Beta / Dev Edition

[Andrei]

• DevEdition 56.0b5-build1 signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/mVUo5x | new bug: https://bugzil.la/1393434.
• macOS 10.13 "High Sierra" compatibility signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/v5xZjN | medium-impact bug: https://bugzil.la/1388343.
  • let's escalate priority here for 56

Mobile

• 56 Beta 5 signoff
• Nightly Check part 1

Features: - all green - new in Safe browsing - 58 atm

Also helped with Focus dot release

Roundtable

• thomas - feature testing for advanced layers?
• erin - safe browsing - seems to be in place in 56? erin will follw up with liz
• [marcia] Are we on track for Mid Nightly signoffs?
• [Rares] we'll be skipping 3 mid-nightly sign-offs: Date/Time Input Types, TPE DOM Storage, Async Places Transactions - all 3 have been considered low & medium priority features for Fx57 prioritization (can't accommodate them at this moment - might also skip pre-Beta sign-offs for these 3)

Working on Photon projects, Activity Stream mid-nightly sign-offs for Friday or exceptionally Monday

• onboarding proposed milestones for spec change
  • sept 15 feature complete
  • start testing sept 18 ( may end up with some beta uplifts later)
  • nicole will send out email to release-drivers today