Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-10-09

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, Sebastian, philipp, jcristau, lizzard, Tom,tania, Ritu, overholt, thomas e

Schedule Update

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

• 63.0b13 released
• next week is rc week

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496599 changed some of the Java signatures. A full explanation was sent to the @stability list.

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 7.41, Thursday: 8.16

• New WR regression which started on 10-6: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497059 has r+ patch
• Small volume Form Submission regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496581 has a patch
• Nightly Crash Triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q4
  • A few Web Payments crashes during testing
  • Core | AV crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497149

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.30, Thursday: 2.43

• oom crashes in 63: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488164 / https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472062

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.30, Thursday: 2.33

• Some good analysis in the #3 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472062#c23
• Extension shutdown fxmonitor crash #5 overall: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938
• Filed new font related Mac crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497563. Seems to affect 10.14 more frequently

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: 19.65, Thursday: 19.58

• • Unsure if this is a signature change, but https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497268 spiked a bit in 62.0.3
    • [julien] signature change, fallout from socorro change around java stacks; this is a OOM
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497134 spiked in 62.0.3, ni on jchen. Also had a similar signature 2 years ago

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 33.28, Thursday: 33.36

• Top crash in beta is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497526. Similar signature has been around before

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 66.90, Thursday: 72.00

• • #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490039 had a small spike in the 10-7 build
  • Filed new small volume Networking bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497543

QA

• 63 pre-release testing in progress
• 64 pre-beta feature signoffs coming this week

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [julien] perf hit from unsetting EARLY_BETA
  • might have failed before 63 beta (measurement was broken from early April to late August)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496790
• [tania] do we have 65 milestones document link?
  • No, will provide it soon

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)