Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-10-18

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, Pascal,abodea, csasca, vlucaci, mberlinger, philipp, mcoman, Ritu,rdranca, lizzard, acupsa, sflorean, adrian_sv, oboca, asimonca, ccomorasu, bmaris, Sebastian, avaida,asoncutean, Tom, ohorvath,tania, cfogel,sdeiac

Schedule Update

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

• Fennec 63.0rc1 shipped to Play @ 5% yesterday
• 63.0rc2 gtb today
• 60.3esr RC built yesterday

• DevEd 64.0b2 gtb today
  • no nightly in the last 24 hours (and the previous one was broken on linux), so this may be bumpy

• Version bump/final merge Monday

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.81, Tuesday 7.07, last cycle 4.41

• Service Workers https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495285 is still happening after fix, and there was a spike on 10-17. ni on :baku
• Filed new DOM regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499855
• Filed new cubeb Mac issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500109

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.20, Tuesday 2.25, last cycle 2.31

64.0b1

• crash in nsFileStreamBase::DoOpen: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496581 - 6.6% of browser crashes; patch is landing
• crash in arena_t::DallocSmall | ?arena_dalloc@@YAXPEAX_KPEAUarena_t@@@Z.llvm.9345198527561597992: 8.9% of browser crashes
  • hard to deal with those signatures without proper name unmangling: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489094

63.0-rc1

• tab crash in OOM | large | ...| js::gc::AllocateCellInGC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472062 - 8.4% of content crashes
• tab crash with quickheal: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489041 - 2.3% of content crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.21, Tuesday 2.23, last cycle 2.18

• nothing to report 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: 19.77, Tuesday 19.79, last cycle 27.36

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 continues to the leading crash on release
  • Despite the fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475218, the crash rate in 62.0.3 is noticeable - approaching 8K crashes

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 32.95, Tuesday 33.00, last cycle 30.02

• • Not much to call out for b15
  • 63.0-rc1
    • Too little data to provide any useful trends yet

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 65.97, Tuesday 67.85, last cycle 45.54

• • #5 top crash has been fixed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498849

QA

[Bogdan] - Concerns:

• Update tests on release-localtest FOR 63.0 (WNP) passed but one new issue was found: https://bugzil.la/1500114
• Coordination on WNP continues to be slow which eats from our time spent on testing
  • the rules from 62 changed a lot, it wasn't clear what the expected results should be.
• Acer custom build tests failed on some platforms/locales - https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1d-KfViGCKM8MbaWLlXtuH5BMISSt-2gVNc_Y17oYE4g/edit - looking for a new point of contact instead of mkaply (he’s on pto)
  • Ping dolske

- Read only:

• 63.0-build1 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1202
  • One new issue, not a major one: https://bugzil.la/1499347

• 60.3.0esr-build1 - manual tests in progress (due tomorrow)
  • Update tests on esr-localtest showed the same failure as 63.0 - Bug: https://bugzil.la/1500114

Nightly

[adrian_sv]Dedicated Profile per Installation: Raising awareness that as soon as the feature lands in Nightly, it will indirectly affect all other installations by taking over the default profile (the profile that usually contains the user data) and providing a blank stub profile for the other different old installations, which, despite the existence of UX explaining what's happening, might generate negative feelings towards Firefox/Mozilla and also can be ultimately understood as perceived data loss. There is not a certain number of how many DAU that switch versions we have, but the estimates are probably in the 5-6 zeroes. [oboca] Nightly Validation 3rd sign-off was sent today with a Green Status] [oboca] Prioritisation for Fx 65 in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

[Bogdan] - read only

• DevEdition 64.0b1-build1 - Completed
  • Green - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1203
  • No new issues found

Beta

Action items

QA Mobile

[Sorina]

• SignOff Pre-check Part 3 Nightly 64.0a1 - status GREEN
• SignOff for 63.0b15 without major issues - status GREEN
• SignOff for 63.0 RC1 without major issues - status GREEN
• Started testing newest version of Firefox for Fire TV v3.0.1 - Andrei & Levi

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)