Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-03-13

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am 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

RyanVM, elan, lizzard, dashboard, jcristau, philipp, bhearsum, Tom, ritu, dveditz, Sebastian

Schedule Update

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

• 59.0 live at 25% for desktop and fennec \o/ \o/
  • hit a couple of issues when pushing fennec rc1 to gp
    • we used strings (product title and description) that refer to beta instead of release
    • once we fixed it, it took 3 days for the play store to update
  • release itself smooth sailing so far

Some stats on 59:

• Around 3900 bugs fixed in 59.
• Around 240 uplifts to beta (This is low, and feels like a successful cultural change)

• 52.7.0esr live at 100% \o/

• 60.0b3 pending QA signoff
  • summary of 60 blocking issues
    • 1443830 installer size regression -- patch ready for b4
    • 1443771 Change Firefox about dialogue visual on ESR
    • 1439875 stylo: Size the XUL window before starting layout -- should land in nightly today/tomorrow, and bake for a week+ before uplift
    • 1436376 Make sure the HPKP/HSTS preload expiration dates are accurate for Firefox 60 -- stalled until April 10
    • 1438246 [Tracking] work required for signing language packs via AMO for releases -- ongoing work in both product and releng/amo; well owned, but tight schedule
    • 1438680,1437699,1429386,1411066,1399388,1385853 various leanplum features for fennec, waiting on staffing

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://trello.com/b/maMI2Fn6/shield-studies

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 1.42 (browser 0.78, content 0.65) telemetry from sunday (m+c-s): 2.95 (week before: 2.53, this time last cycle: 4.20)

[marcia]

• Rate looks decent after the merge
• Current top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444019 is from malwarebytes
• #3 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443518 has a patch that is r+

Beta

awsy rate: 0.57 (browser 0.30, content 0.28) telemetry from sunday (m+c-s): 1.28 (week before: 1.46, this time last cycle: 1.59)

[philipp] 60.0b2

• Crash in mozilla::layers::InputBlockState::SetConfirmedTargetApzc: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443518 - 5% of browser crashes
  • has a patch
• Crash in mozilla::FrameLayerBuilder::GetDisplayItemDataForManager: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440966 - 8% of content crashes
  • fix is in b3

Release

awsy rate: 0.64 (browser 0.34, content 0.30) telemetry from sunday (m+c-s): 1.27 (week before: 1.13, this time last cycle: 1.31)

[philipp]

• last minute 58 crash spike in [@ nsCOMPtr<T>::nsCOMPtr<T> | mozilla::storage::Service::unregisterConnection]
  • correlated to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cliqz/versions/ v2.24.7 - they have disabled the version for the moment
  • might be fixed in 59 with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413501 which addressed the same signature

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.48, beta 0.69, nightly 1.52

• Release
  • Early data still coming in
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444549 (crash for some users in the tab overview section) is present in the final release build as well.

• Beta
  • Early data still coming in

• Nightly
  • Top crash appears to be fixed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440592

Roundtable

• Shilpi let me know that Search/Partner engineering will do a retro

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/59-0-Post-Mortem