Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-09-05
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Channel Meeting Details
- Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings
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: ReleaseCoordination
- Vidyo Guest URL
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Contents
Attendees
lizzard, jcristau, nicole, philipp, RyanVM, kmoir, milan, flod,elan, davidb, selena, marcia
Previous Actions
Schedule Update
- 55.0.3 updates re-enabled on Friday with no changes
- further investigation didn't show significant changes in things like bookmarks count so in the end we did not disable refresh prompts in a SAO
- followonsearch update shipped last week via balrog
- e10s-multi: Thurs or a week from today. Blake will send intent to ship
- screenshots - delayed till sept. 26 (marketing team's call)
- 55.0.4 status update?
- No active drivers at this time
- 56.0b9 in progress
- 32-to-64bit migration for windows users
- devedition is live, beta scheduled for tomorrow morning (Europe) \o/ thank you julien, cpeterson, jlorenzo, mihai, gabi, rstrong!
- Early merge plan for beta 57: Sep. 14. Will test beta 1 on dev ed population ~Sept 19.
- need to keep comms in the loop here. (Porfirio)
Add-ons
Shield studies
- Quick review of shield studies or experiments.
- Is anything waiting for signoff or testing?
- putting this on your radar for next week: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zD7kLlaqhairCC2pPu9PR8li4yU4hX10oYOAh8qfXLY/edit?ts=59a9696e
- once doc is reviewed, we'll send out the release-drivers email. planning it ship this out next week.
- putting this on your radar for next week: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zD7kLlaqhairCC2pPu9PR8li4yU4hX10oYOAh8qfXLY/edit?ts=59a9696e
- Shield studies in flight: https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard
- [julien] this doesn't load for me
Stability
Nightly
awsy rate: 3.42 (browser 2.07, content 1.34) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 7.95 (week before: 3.53, this time last cycle: 8.63)
[marcia]
- Crash rates are still high.
- Latest bugs filed from Nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q3#2017-09-05_-_ting
- Philipp filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396521 which seems to be a new regression
[philipp] 57.0a1
- crash spike in the past week is mostly due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395938 which had a fix landed earlier today & https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394873
- Crash in mozilla::detail::MutexImpl::lock: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352047 (7.5% of browser crashes)
- Crash in nsPIDOMWindowInner::UpdateWebSocketCount: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396368 (27% of content crashes)
Beta
awsy rate: 1.06 (browser 0.79, content 0.27) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 5.75 (week before: 5.75, this time last cycle: 4.73)
[philipp] 56.0b8 top crashers:
- Gfx shutdownhang with massive volume: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389021 (16% of browser crashes on 56.0b8)
- Startup crashes in nsTArray_Impl<T>::AppendElement<T> | mozilla::Preferences::AddBoolVarCache: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396317 (3% of browser crashes)
- Crash in alloc::oom::oom: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389470 (1.8% of browser crashes)
- plan in the bug is to disable rust mp4 parser for 32bit win
- Crashes with modules relating to RelevantKnowledge malware: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394550 (1.4% of browser crashes)
- Crash in PtrToNodeMatchEntry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396374 (0.5% of browser, 1% of content crashes)
- Crash in NewFunctionClone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384544 (1% of browser crashes)
- carry over regression from 55 - needs investigation
- Crash in OOM | large | NS_ABORT_OOM | nsACString::Assign: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396290 (0.7% of browser crashes)
- Crash in CrashReporter::OOPInit is one of the most common win64 signature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347867
Release
awsy rate: 0.84 (browser 0.62, content 0.22) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 3.34 (week before: 4.13, this time last cycle: 2.30)
[philipp]
- startup crash with Webroot / [@ BaseThreadInitThunk]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361410 (2.6% of all browser crashes/~40k installations)
- fix verified to work in 56.0b
Mobile
awsy rate: nightly 2.29, beta 0.74, release 0.65
[marcia}
- Android builds have been missing since 8/31 - bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396447 was filed and resolved fixed. (Android builds were there - but not detected by dbaron's crash analysis)
- calixte caught https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396589 which has about 66 crashes, has been resolved fixed.
[philipp]
- [@ ResolvePromise] signature newly popping up in the last few days for ublock origin users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347984#c34 (1.2% of browser crashes)
Performance (Thu)
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Release
QE
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Action items
Mobile
Performance
RelEng
Marketing/Communications
User Advocacy
Roundtable
- Windows 10 Fall Creators Update coming October 17th
- DevTools/GoFaster has been deferred from 57
- A11y/e10s/57 final go/no-go is happening on Thursday
- Are we good to use this timeline as the final source of truth: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1SRjdBNjj4LM0IV4vs1UMrPnpyhyNTYpJLZhLHg2TZI8/edit?usp=sharing
