Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-11-20
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
Contents
Attendees
jcristau, lizzard, marcia, philipp, Ritu
Schedule Update
Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard
- 64.0b11 shipped today
- 64.0b12 gtb Thursday (U.S. holiday)
- heads-up: will likely include fennec due to some late/risky uplifts
- 64 blockers
- 1508494 WNP setup
- should have strings locked down this week for translation (This has come a bit late from marketing to the l10n team)
- 1499088 Disable webrender before release
- patch ready to land next week after 64.0b13
- 1496684 Custom tabs don't load when Gecko isn't already running
- might be fixed by the next one
- 1494748 Content area frozen until force-kill and restart
- has a patch, just landing now
- 1508494 WNP setup
Off-train releases
Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html
Stability
some missing windows symbols after the last ms patch day
Nightly
firefox nightly summary score: 7.18, last week no score to a bug (But a caveat: unfortunately the mission control rates are now available again, they should not be trusted, because they are being calculated based on incomplete information (we're still missing anything newer than the 18th).
- Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507171 is now resolved fixed
- Nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2018Q4
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507323 - crashes should be reprocessed
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505954 is now fixed so the signatures should look better. However, in some cases there are crashes
grouped together that are not all the same crash reason.
Beta
firefox beta summary score: 2.24, last Thursday 2.23
- crash in mozilla::ipc::IPDLParamTraits<T>::Write: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1484524 - 3.3% of content crashes
- overholt will follow up with team on this
- fix for a large cluster of shutdownhangs going into b11: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498942
Release
firefox release summary score: 2.44, last Thursday 2.50
- firefox monitor async timouts increasing after its rollout: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938
- crash by trend micro: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490637 - 1.3% of browser crashes
- persistent startup crash on systems with particular old amd cpu: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501343 - 0.3% of browser crashes
- tab crashes in OOM | large | NS_ABORT_OOM | nsGenericHTMLElement::GetURIAttr: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507410 - 3% of content crashes
- bug 1507410 seems like a specific instance of OOM | large ...
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: 25.79, last Thursday 26.63
- Binder proxy remains the top crash, 31462 crashes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503255. Crash rate does look better in 64
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491334 also remains a top crash, but it is correlated to a specific device
- # 7 overall top crash seems stalled - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497143
- Beta
fennec beta summary score: 29.40, last Thursday 29.76
- Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508641 since the rate seems to be increasing in the most recent beta
- Nightly
fennec nightly summary score: 47.00, last Thursday 34.87
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507513 caused a spike in crashes, hopefully will be fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507913
