Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-11-23

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

Attendees

jcristau, avaida, philipp, cmuresan, adrian_sv, Sorina,Julia, cornel, Tom,Cristian, mboldan, jorge,oana,bsurd

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

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

• 58.0b6 gtb today to get some changes there before they go out to release next week

• 57.0.1 next week
  • Target: Tuesday or Wednesday
  • List of patches: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1WO0mP6xQ1BTC7ifBCTzzMGaqyi_qmytuwIBNpenFTEE/edit?ts=5a09e041#gid=0
  • Taking some patches in 58.0b6 to use the pre release population to test the change

Add-ons

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php

Stability

hiccup in adis: yesterday's awsy rates too high, today's are too low

Nightly

telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 7.67 (week before: 5.64, this time last cycle: 6.01)

[philipp] high content crash rate, mainly due to 2 gfx crashes:

• crash in IsAnyAncestorModified: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418722 - 47% of content crashes
• crash in mozilla::layers::ContentClientRemoteBuffer::GetUpdatedRegion https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419539 - 11% of content crashes

Beta

telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 7.90 (this time last cycle: 4.23)

[philipp] 58.0b5

• mozilla::ipc::LogicError | mozilla::net::PHttpChannel::Transition: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418795 - 13.5% of content crashes
  • bug is assigned & crash reason understood
• mozilla::net::HttpChannelParentListener::OnDataAvailable: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416879 - 7.5% of browser crashes
  • looking for qa help in the bug to see if it's reproducible
    • [avaida] We'll add this to our todo list.
• mozilla::storage::Service::unregisterConnection: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413501 - 3.6% of browser crashes
  • fix in nightly, no uplift request yet
• nsCookieService::HandleCorruptDB: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420175 - 1% of browser crashes

fix in b6:

• necko crashes in nsCookieService.cpp: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1415120 - 15% of browser crashes

Release

telemetry (m+c-s) from tuesday: 1.90 (this time last cycle: 3.00)

[philipp] 57.0

• Crashes on on google maps with 2011 model macbooks: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413269 - 34% of macos content crashes
  • possible to work-around with a pref change
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=amdbug - 7.5% of content crashes
  • build-specific, so it's a gamble and might go away with the next dot-release anyway
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1331209 - 1.85% of browser crashes

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.56 / beta 0.82 / nightly 1.28 (all three slightly down from tuesday)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413500 should be fixed in today's nightly (it's causing half of the crashes on nightly)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391268 at the top of 58.0b5 crashes (early data still)

top crashes on release are:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 CursorWindowAllocationException
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340959 Crash in res_countArrayItems_59, jnicol is trying to get his hands on an affected device

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

[Cornel]

• GREEN: Nightly sign-off (round 1 of 3), report: https://goo.gl/gkt9Ms
  • one new bug uncovered: 1419819 (recent regression, low-impact)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[Cornel]

• GREEN: 58.0b5-build1 signed-off, report: https://goo.gl/7sywu7

[Cristian]

• WebVR: We updated to the latest beta macOS (10.13.2 Beta(17C79a) installed today) and re-tried the possible workarounds, but to no avail. However we did notice the moment it freezes is closer to the end of the load.

Action items

Mobile

[Sorina] we signed off 58 Beta 5 without any major issues

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Nov 28 - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/57-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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