Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-01-09

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

marcia, RyanVM, lizzard, nicole, Tom, philipp, elan, dveditz, ritu

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

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

• 58.0b15 desktop+devedition shipped today
• still waiting on fennec beta 15 QA signoff

• merges and start of soft freeze this Thursday, along with 58.0b16 gtb

• hotfix for spectre mitigation on fennec (fennec doesn't support system add-ons currently)

Add-ons

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard

Stability

Nightly

awsy: 2.78 (browser 1.03, content 1.75) telemetry (m+c-s from sunday): 5.28 (week before: 4.86, this time last cycle: 4.06)

[marcia]

• Several new regressions filed: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q1#2018-Jan-08_-_marcia
  • Two are due to a Service workers landing
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1428765 is a Mac only crash
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405290 is at the top of crash stats, but doesn't appear to be actionable
• #5 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344539 has a patch that is r+ and is awaiting checkin

Beta

awsy: 1.51 (browser 0.69, content 0.82) telemetry (m+c-s from sunday): 3.44 (week before: 2.03, this time last cycle: 2.49)

[marcia]

• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416879 had a fix, but was backed out due to test failures. Over 13K crashes in the last 7 days
  • Need to ping Andrew Sutherland to see the status

[philipp]

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418795 is the content crash signature for the same issue - both amount to 49% of all crashes of beta 14
  • comments talk about downloading attachments from outlook webmail
  • signatures gone while the fix was on nightly builds 20180106100308 & 20180106220101 before it got backed out

• Crash in mozilla::ipc::MessageChannel::Clear | ... | mozilla::dom::PContentParent::~PContentParent: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423261 - 1% of browser crashes
• Startup crash in mozilla::CacheDataAppendElement: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276488 - 0.6% of browser crashes
  • bug went stale during the last month

Release

awsy: 0.72 (browser 0.40, content 0.31) telemetry (m+c-s from sunday): 1.79 (week before: 1.79)

[marcia]

• Release Rate looks good
  • Nothing new has appeared in the top 10

Mobile

awsy: release 0.56, beta 0.79, nightly 1.20

• Release
  • Rate looks good

• Beta
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412853 was reopened, but no activity on it since the last comment 6 days ago. Not huge volume in the latest Beta

• Nightly
  • Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1428184 has been fixed

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

• Question: [callek] Any media/Press concerns around deved 59 beta 1 "go live" timing?
• Question: [callek] Does deved 59 beta need a WNP?

Great questions: Liz will add these to the milestones list and I'll get answers at least 1 day in advance of merge (sooner).

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

Actions

• Erin: to gather answers for releng's questions (WNP and if there are deved go live timing concerns)
• Lizzard: to get WNP interests for deved into Milestone Planning Doc