Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2018-11-22

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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

csasca, vlucaci, mberlinger, sdeiac, philipp, jcristau, MLobontiu, acupsa,ccomorasu, adrian_sv, asimonca, cbadau, gcheta, cbaica,Tom, cfogel, cionce , icristescu, tania, vchin, tbabos, asoncutean, abodea, lbialis, Sebastian, ohorvath a

Schedule Update

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

• 64.0b12 gtb today
  • includes a fennec build, with higher-than-usual risk. would be good to test especially a11y-related areas

• next week is the last week of beta64, and 64.0b14 will be a day early (gtb Wed, November 28)

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Buildhub is catching up so we should have usable rates again

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.94, Tuesday: 7.18

• crash in mozilla::wr::ImageDescriptor::ImageDescriptor on linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508096 - 7.5% of browser crashes

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.21, Tuesday: 2.24

• content crash in icu_62::DecimalFormat::setGroupingUsed spiking in recent days: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495244 - 1.4% of content crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.43, Tuesday: 2.44

• AsyncShutdownTimeout | profile-change-teardown | Extension shutdown: fxmonitor@mozilla.org: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464938 - 33% of browser crashes in 63.0.1
  • many comments indicate this crash is interrupting the auto-update to 63.0.3
  • will file a dedicated bug for this after the meeting
• content crash in OOM | large | NS_ABORT_OOM | nsGenericHTMLElement::GetURIAttr: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507410 - 2.7% of content crashes (74% of content crashes for czech locales)

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: 25.73, Tuesday: 25.79

• android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503255 - 13% of all crashes
  • comments indicate the crashes happen while switching to other open apps
• java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: at ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.impl.EnglishReasonPhraseCatalog.setReason(EnglishReasonPhraseCatalog.java): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491334 - 2.4% of all crashes
  • crash is device specific - blocked on obtaining the affected tablet
• OOM | large | NS_ABORT_OOM | nsTSubstring<T>::SetLength: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508740 - 2.3% of all crashes
  • newly filed; needs more investigation
• java.lang.IllegalStateException: at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.saveAllState(FragmentManager.java): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497143 - 1.5% of all crashes

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 29.09, Tuesday: 29.40

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 48.24, Tuesday: 47.00

• major a11y crash (50% of crashes) has received a fix 2 days ago, so the rates should start declining again now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507513

QA

Nightly

[Brindusa] - read only

* Fx65 preliminary pre-Beta status reports - In progress, we'll send emails by tomorrow  EOD

Aurora / Dev Edition

[Cornel] - read only

• DevEd 64.0b11 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1272
  • One new minor issue found: https://bugzil.la/1509026

Beta

[Cornel] - read only

• Beta 64.0b11 - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1270
  • No new issues found
  • Update tests on beta-cdntest, beta, aurora-cdntest and aurora showed no new issues: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VId0etg-iHq9eYdwHXcng5UDUAP7spwjHUa__XRXVu0/edit

• Beta 64.0b10 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1268
  • No new issues found.

• Beta 64.0b11 snap - Completed
  • GREEN - Manual tests: https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/reports/view/1271
  • No new issues found.

• Fx64 pre-Release feature sign offs - In progress, we'll send all the reports by tomorrow EOD

Mobile Stability

• Beta 64.0b11 signed off - GREEN: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/64/Beta/11
• Beta BFTs - second part - no new issues