Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-08-28

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

Attendees

marcia, RyanVM, tomprince, wlach, philipp, jcristau, tania, Sebastian, Tom, Marion, dveditz, elan, ritu

Schedule Update

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

• desktop 62.0 rc1 is out on the beta channel
• fennec 62.0b21 is out on beta as well
• fennec 62.0 rc1 built and pending QA

• 60.2.0esr pending releng work (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481121)
  • On track for GTB on Wednesday
  • Updates will be enabled on Sept 5th

• deved 63.0b1 shipped to 100% of aurora today
• deved 63.0b2 gtb thursday, ship friday
• nightly soft freeze remains in effect until the version bump next Tuesday

• 64 nightly/beta milestones: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MQa4J9OSTc1i60sFcVNyoFNLK8TLBXJlL9W12VoEUAc/edit

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Stability

• Android nightlies missing symbolication - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485759
• Windows symbols missing since last microsoft patch day mid-august - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486825
• crash comments no longer public - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485775 :(

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 4.35, Thursday's score 4.15

• Webrender crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485274 has generated a fair # of crashes cross platform.
  • It should be resolved fixed in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485791
• Core | String https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486470 appeared, fix in the works. Over 100 crashes in 8-27 build.
• R+ patch for Webextensions crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486057

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.34, Thursday's score 2.39

• Core | Graphics https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485441 is visible on beta, as noted last week
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485253 is still visible in crash stats. Marked as P2.

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.19, Thursday's score 2.21

• • Shutdown hangs continue to be very visible in the upper part of crash spectrum - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1483909.
    • Fixing the bug on line 37 will help here.

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 27.39, Thursday's score 27.55

• • Not much to call out for Release

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 30.08, Thursday's score 30.09

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485441 is at the top of the b19 crash stats.
  • Longstanding crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 is also at the top of b19 crash stats

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 45.88, Thursday's score 47.31

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1480852 continues to be visible in nightly, with about 50 crashes in the last 7 days.

QA

[Tom] The deadline to send Fx64 PI Requests is tomorrow (AUGUST 29) https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PI/PI+Request

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [elan] WNP - checking in

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)