Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-05-23

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573 https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573 +17207072699,,266532573# US Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

REMEMBER

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Attendees

dolah, philipp, pascalc, bsurd, mboldan, RyanVM, Aryx, Tom, abodea, ohorvath,cbaica, dcicas, ccomorasu, csasca, mberlinger, drus, dcicas, mlobontiuroman, cionce, lapahidean, brindusa, Ritu, vlucaci, tbabos, ebalazs,asoncutean,atrif

Schedule Update

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

• Desktop 67.0 has no major blocker for a wider rollout, should go to 100% later today or tomorrow
• Fennec 67.0 rolled out at 99.99%

• fennec 68.0b3 shipped Tuesday at 10%
  • rollout at 50% as of today 1400 UTC
• firefox/deved 68.0b3 shipped yesterday (

• Fennec Nightlies on track for re-enabling tomorrow

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Since we just released, I am not adding a comparison summary score from last week

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 5.44

• Small volume Mac layout regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553824
• Core | IPC regression starting in 5-22 build - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553742
• Very small volume Core | Graphics crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553664

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 8.82

[68.0b3]

• Crash in [@ nsTSubstring<T>::Assign | CrashReporter::TakeMinidumpForChild]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553226 - 5.6% of browser crashes
  • has a patch in 69
• Crash in [@ mdb_cursor_put]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538541 - 3.9% of browser crashes
• Crash in [@ wasapi_init]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550695 - 2.7% of browser crashes
• numerous new dom :: web storage crash signatures:
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541776
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540401
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541928
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516333
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541772
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541771

Release

firefox release summary score: 5.37

• New crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553380 appears to be CPU specific, started in RC2

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: 18.90

• • GPC shows a high ANR rate for Fennec release
  • Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539465 - not much to go on at the moment
  • Leftover crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1545429 is also at the top of crash stats
  • Nothing new in the top 25

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 66.70

• • Not enough data to go on, waiting for unthrottling

QA

[cornel]

• Currently assessing how reliable Iris results are. We intend to use it for our Full Functional testing rounds and Update tests too in the near feature.

Nightly

[DaniB]

• Bug Work - Uplift and bug verification
• Documentation and investigation on Trailhead features

• Sign-off ARM64 M3 - RC67 testing - COMPLETED
  • Manual tests - https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/plans/view/17556
  • 2 new bugs logged - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=1553128%2C%201553743&list_id=14728803

Mobile Stability

• • Fennec 68 Beta 3 build 1 - Signed off without major issues - GREEN
  • Feature Retain Display Lists - pre-release sign off - status GREEN

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

[67]

• couple of reports about connectivity issues on ubuntu: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/713507#post-75985
• reports about blank homepage loading on startup: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bs0wxt/startup_page_bug/ (not able to reproduce myself)

Roundtable

• we had an accidental leanplum push to fennec users earlier this week