Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-11-02
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
Contents
Attendees
marcia, jcristau, adrian_sv, avaida, cionce, Julia, mboldan, ninu, jlorenzo, ritu, Tom, RyanVM, Timea, Sorina, Ioana, Cristian, bogdan_maris, bsurd, petruta, nicole, oanah,asimonca, carmenf,
Previous Actions
Schedule Update
Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard
- 57 merged to m-r
Remaining tasks for today:
- first 58 merge to m-b
- 57.0b14 gtb
- are we ready for gtb now or should we do the merge first? [merge first]
- 58 beta calendar
- let's cancel one of the builds week of January 1st, and move 58.0b13 gtb away from Christmas day
- Blocking bugs for 57
- Bug 1398652 - Firefox Nightly is sluggish after several days with no restart
- Bug 1413295 - Rename "Mozilla Firefox" to "Firefox" on Windows
Add-ons
Shield studies
- FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard
Stability
Nightly
awsy rate: 1.76 (browser 0.86, content 0.90) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 4.71 (week before: 4.65, this time last cycle: 9.07)
- Rate slightly lower than yesterday
- Several new bugs filed
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413858 - Core | Audio/Video
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413862 - Graphics | Layers
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413857 - Graphics
Beta
awsy rate: 0.82 (browser 0.52, content 0.32) telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 2.40 (week before: 1.84, this time last cycle: 4.90)
- Top crash continues to be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412635 which will be fixed in the next build
- New B13 Crash in mozilla::layers::DataTextureSourceBasic::GetSize. Philipp comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413882#c1 explains why
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1331209
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413857 is also rising, but due to problematic/crashy AuthenticAMD family 20 model 1/2 processor family
Release
awsy rate: 0.81 (browser 0.57, content 0.25)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405290 continues to be the top crash. Does not appear from the bug comments that this will be addressed in 57
Mobile
awsy rate: release 0.60, beta 0.85, nightly 1.45
- Nightly
- Not much of note. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413769 was filed by a contributor. Affects Firefox as well.
- Beta
- Beta13 early data still coming in
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1370915 which was rising in B11 is at the top of Fennec B13 crash stats.
- Release
- Nothing of note
Performance (Thu)
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Release
QE
[Cornel]
- Firefox 57 WNP testing - currently working on a Test Plan
- Do we know which locales will receive Var A and Var B?
Var A: en-US, en-GB, de, es-AR, es-CL, es-ES, es-MX, fr, id, pl, pt-BR, ru, zh-CN, and zh-TW Var B:
- Would it be possible to have the release-cdntest channel set up earlier in case we find issues?
We are targeting Nov 9th
Nightly
[Cornel]
- WebRTC testing (General Compatibility and GUM) completed today with 2 new issues: https://goo.gl/voAzkB
- Pre-beta feature sign-offs are in progress *due Oct 3
- [Alex] Pointer Events sign-off testing is in progress. Will have a report ready by tomorrow EOD.
- [Cristi] WebVR1.1 (mac) : We are trying to find a workaround for the issue : https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/87933 . We are currently trying to downgrade to mac OS X 10.13.0 as it is the most compatible with the Sonnet device.
- [UPDATE]: We could not downgrade mac OS to 10.13.0 .
[Adrian]
- Nightly Build Validation(3rd signoff) - 95% completed - will send report today EOD
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
[Cornel]
- DevEdition 57.0b12 signed off as GREEN
- 57.0b13 signed off without any major issues
- Bug 1398652 - we plan to start testing this tomorrow
- Firefox 57 feature statuses - https://goo.gl/tJUKsU
Action items
Mobile
- Fennec 57 Beta 13 signed out without major issues
- Almost all features are green both 57 and 58 with some issues on Gradle Feature with Leanplum
Performance
RelEng
Marketing/Communications
User Advocacy
Roundtable
[Adrian]: Track Bug 1413565 for Release 57 ? [elan] Dry Run for 57 GoLive: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/57rehearsal
- Post 57 Launch Exp/Studies list - https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheets/d/1w_jFXuZcupEVdX-N_ux3eL3ZW0-sfpJ7yF6Hsxp4qYs/edit?usp=sharing
