Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-04-09
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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
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Contents
Attendees
RyanVM, marcia, Pascal, Aryx, philipp, tania, Tom
Schedule Update
Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard
- 67 beta 9 shipped, early beta flag unset
- 66.0.3 will gtb later today (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15AcB8ipP-GhpwSzsWO4L8fBokYZXf_2CDyg1daRnzgk/edit#gid=1009056035 for list of bugs) aim to release Wednesday
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=1542820 was filed for the Mission Control Server Issues
Nightly
firefox nightly summary score: 6.86 , Thursday 7.55
- Core | DOM crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543015 spiked in the 4-8 nightly
- Core | DOM Web storage crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542706 is #3 overall, investigation continuing
- content Shut down crashes appear to have been reduced. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538274 for details
- Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543110 to account for the Flash crashes in the top 15 crashes on nightly
- Current Nightly crash triage - https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q2
Beta
firefox beta summary score: 3.66, Thursday 4.08
- Quickheal crashes still hanging around at #6 overall, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489041
- shutdownhang in mozilla::dom::quota::QuotaManager::Observer::Observe: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542485 - 8.7% of browser crashes
- volume decreased in the past days on nightly
- IndexedDB crash: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528690 - 3.5% of browser crashes
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535301 - 1.6% of browser crashes
- might need a diagnostic patch for 1-2 beta cycles
- content crash in mozilla::dom::ClientSource::SetController: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535699 - 4% of content crashes
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529556 in beta 10, should mitigate some oom|small crashes
Release
firefox release summary score: 2.03, Thursday 2.18
- Release looks good overall, no new issues in the Top 20 crashes
- #18 Top Core Graphics crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535866 has a ni. Affects 67 as well
- Third Party crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318858 seems to be rising a bit on release
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: 17.12, Thursday 17.20
- One new bug in the top 20, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542320. Correlated to Adreno 540
- #5 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526396 is awaiting a skip list add
- Beta
fennec beta summary score: 91.22, Thursday 122.02
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543076 could be a new bug, a signature change or an existing bug
- Nightly
fennec nightly summary score: 67.46, Thursday 70.12
- Massive crash spike on Fennec, see https://crash-spikes.herokuapp.com/?date=2019-04-08&channel=nightly&product=FennecAndroid
- Fixed by patch in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542440
- Tests caught this, but didn't catch the magnitude of how many crashes were generated
QA
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Action items
Mobile Stability
SUMO Report / User Advocacy
Roundtable
Special Topics
- 66.0.2 post-mortem (Pascal, Liz)
- Drivers were the keyboard events/Office 365 bug, an Audio/Video crash, and the OpenH264 issue for Fennec.
- Bugs uplifted for 66.0.2: https://mzl.la/2uKVFGP
- Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.2/releasenotes/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/66.0.2/releasenotes/
- QA's analysis of dot releases: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vaDGBxt0d4jOyg8ZE3k_JwwBtjOR-blIWaQJ9DmJZiA/edit#gid=2037116061
What went well:
- Successful release!
- went to 100% update rate
Challenges:
- Rushing this dot release because of office365 (didn't feel we could rely on the hotfix)
- Missed a typo in office 365 domains (will be fixed in 66.0.3, bug 1539618)
- Two blocking issues didn't land in time (now drivers for 66.0.3) 1498973 and 1537609
Aurora/Beta Feature Review
Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
9:15am Pacific Time Thurs April 4 (today) https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/66-0-Post-Mortem