Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-09-21

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, julien, sylvestre, philipp, bsurd, Cornel, avaida, RyanVM, Adrian, jorge, kmoir, Cristian, Florin, dveditz, rares,roxana, Tom, mboldan, carmenf,Sorina, jlorenzo,nicole

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

• m-c is now 58
  • changes to 57 will need uplifts
  • Will start the build of 57.0b2 later today

• should esr52.4 block on bug 1047098?
  • will ping overholt
  • yes? given Tor and distros using ESR fixing it trunk only may not make press issues go away

• 56.0 rc is out on the beta channel
• Waiting to build a desktop RC2, on the indexdb bug. May build fri. and release monday
• Fennec rc1 also likely delayed (for locale issues) (check with mkaply)

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard
  • we had a drop off in shield studies, 4 studies affected
  • reenroll users, coming soon. 56 rc2 has the fix.

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 2.25 (browser 1.16, content 1.09) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 7.59 (week before: 9.07, this time last cycle: 9.40)

[marcia]

• Nightly is down from what was reported Tuesday
• Top browser crash is still 1398070. Tracking a potential fix in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401668
• New Nightly Triage bugs filed - https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q3#2017-09-21_-_kanru - 5 new crashes
• New nightly crash with signatures in Mac and Linux (mozilla::MozPromiseRequestHolder<T>::Track via mozilla::dom::U2F::Sign) should be fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401019
• Top Windows browser crash on Nightly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1398070
• Top Mac browser crash on Nightly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399975
• Top Linux browser crash on Nightly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382144

Beta

awsy rate: 1.16 (browser 0.87, content 0.29) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 5.24 (week before: 4.90, this time last cycle: 3.99)

[philipp] 57.0b1 devedition :

• Content crashes in mozilla::layers::ImageBridgeChild::InitForContent: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400637 - 49% of content crashes
  • Judging by the comments it seems to hit some users repeatedly and is rendering the browser near useless
  • 7000 crashes for 350 users. headphone related?
• Crash in mozilla::ipc::MessageChannel::WillDestroyCurrentMessageLoop: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1398070 - 44% of browser crashes
  • crash at shutdown
• Mac content crashes in [EMPTY: no crashing thread identified; OK]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1385531 - 11% of content crashes
  • should be fixed with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400671
• A11y content crashes in mozilla::a11y::DocAccessible::DoInitialUpdate: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399557 - 11% of content crashes
• A11y content crashes in PBrowserParent::RecvPDocAccessibleConstructor...: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1383501 - 7.6% of content crashes
• Gfx crashes in Intel's igdusc64.dll module - 3.3% of browser crashes

[philipp] 56 rc1:

• Gfx shutdown hangs from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389021 - 10% of browser crashes
• Gfx crashes in ... CFrameSurfaceAllocator::ReleaseDXVASurface: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374231 - 8.5% of browser crashes

Release

awsy rate: 0.84 (browser 0.61, content 0.23) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 3.07 (week before: 2.75, this time last cycle: 2.58)

[marcia]

• Release rate looks good
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1334165 is back on release, but it is only present on 55 according to crash stats.

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.66 - beta 0.74 - nightly 3.43

• Nightly
  • Nightly trending down and recovering nicely after the crash spike due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400549

• Beta
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394788 is the top crash in B13. It appears as if the fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392705 addressed the Android crashes.

• Release
  • Rate looks good and there nothing specific to call out here.

QE

• [Andrei] ESR 52.4 signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/rVgRoz.

Beta

[Andrei]

• 56.0 (RC1) signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/jFfyMT.
• DevEdition 57.0b1 signed off (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/ozej7U.
• macOS 10.13 Golden Master build spot-checked today (GREEN) - test report: https://goo.gl/GLzGxd.

Mobile

• Beta 56.0b13 signed off without new issues.
• Done part 3 of the Nightly pre-check, signed off without new issues.
• Waiting for delayed RC 56.
• Photon Mobile feature sign off: Yellow, agreed to fix all remaining issues in Beta 57 or Nightly 58.
• Activity Stream Mobile feature sign off: Yellow, agreed to fix all remaining issues in Beta 57.
• Custom Tabs Mobile feature sign off: Yellow, agreed to fix all remaining issues in Beta 57.

Roundtable

• [marcia][elan] Discuss parameters around when things can land in Beta 57 cycle. <= by which beta do things need to land? Usually we say the week before RC but will that be ok for 57?
  • Joe Hildebrand commented on Slack recently: "after a week or two, the bar should turn into 'would cause a point release if not fixed'"
  • Fennec in particular had many "yellow" QA signoffs