Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-09-25

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, pascal, philipp, jcristau, tania, telin, aki

Schedule Update

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

• 62.0.2 at 100% (desktop + fennec) as of Monday
• 63.0b9 today

Off-train releases

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

• fxmonitor rollout called off for now

Stability

• Windows symbols missing since Microsoft's September patch day: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493999

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 8.76, Thursday 8.23

• Busy Nightly crash triage - https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q3#2018-09-24_-_gsvelto
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493177 caused a large spike in nightly starting on 9-21
  • Large spike in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493403 on 9-22, over 11K crashes
• New regression after WR update: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493917

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.78, Thursday 3.14

[philipp] 63.0b8

• increase in startup crashes during 63:
  • mozilla::Preferences::AddBoolVarCache (omni.ja corruption): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276488 - 5.2% of browser crashes
  • ErrorLoadingSheet (low disk space during updates): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303764 - 4.1% of browser crashes
• unsymbolized xul crashes with MOZ_CRASH(IPC FatalError in the parent process!): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491340 - 2.6% of browser crashes
• tab crash in OOM | large | ... | js::gc::AllocateCellInGC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488164 - 8% of content crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.42, Thursday 2.50

[philipp] 62.0.2

• A11y shutdownhang rising since windows patch day: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419108 - 2.5% of browser crashes
• Async Shutdown timeout with Firefox Monitor: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938 - 2.3% of browser crashes

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: 19.69, Thursday 19.74

• • Not much to call out for Fennec release

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 33.92, Thursday 34.58

• • Filed new crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493980. Seemed to have spiked in b3 a bit.

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 34.17, Thursday 34.18

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493611, new crash but only crashes if pref'd on

QA

Nightly/Fx64 - lots of "Code not landed/not ready for testing", few have open blocking bugs

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z4_GjF-OHKihIeqfJGzH3NUC0hK3Ct8chyHOm8Nguo4/edit#gid=0

Next milestone: preliminary pre-beta status report Oct 5

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [marcia] Mojave 10.14 shipped yesterday, Version 18A391 is the Release ID
  • Some dupes of known bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489785 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471873

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)