Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-02-19

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, lizzard, pascalc, RyanVM, philipp, Tom, Thomas,tania, dveditz, jaws, jcristau, Ritu

Schedule Update

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

• 66.0b9 Fennec, dev ed, beta released this morning
• 66 beta 10 build Thursday, release Friday

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528996 to investigate the jump on Fennec nightly

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.47, Thursday 3.34

• Large spike from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528188 is gone following the fix
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528620 is visible starting in build from 2-16
• Latest Nightly Crash Triage - https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q1

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.74, Thursday 2.87

[66.0b8]

• Crash in [@ mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetD2D1::CreateBrushForPattern]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526045 - 2.1% of tab crashes
  • patch is up for review
• Crash in [@ mozilla::gfx::Factory::GetD2DDeviceContext ]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521774 - 0.7% of tab crashes
  • patch landing in b8 didn't have an impact
• IPC crashes in mozilla::PRemoteDecoderManagerChild::SendPRemoteVideoDecoderConstructor with scdetour.dll/"Quick Heal": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529020 - 0.4% of tab crashes

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.05, Thursday 2.18

[65.0.1]

• AsyncShutdownTimeout in sanitize.js: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524200 - 3.6% of browser crashes
• Crash in [@ mozilla::ipc::IPDLParamTraits<T>::Write]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1484524 - 3.9% of tab crashes [no update this week, sorry --overholt]
• Crash in Win10 1809 N-edition VP9 decoder: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521370 - 1.8% of tab crashes
  • february windows patch day didn't improve the situation as hoped after comms with MS; fairly frequent issue on sumo: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/firefox?owner=all&tagged=bug1521370&show=all

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: 22.09, Thursday 22.31

• • Nothing specific to call out for this meeting. Have been working on updating correlations, etc for existing top 20 bugs

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 21.34, Thursday 22.37

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153736 is visible in beta. Seems to be correlated to accessibility

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 45.62, Thursday 24.89

• • New ARM64 crashes on nightly, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528621
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521158 continues to be the top crash on Fennec nightly, related to ARM64

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx65 post-mortem agenda: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/65-0-Post-Mortem