Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-08-20

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

• RyanVM, lizzard, Aryx, dveditz, mhentges, Thomas, Julien, Ritu, William,

Schedule Update

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

• Desktop & DevEdition 69.0b15 live @ 100%

• Fennec 68.1b7 live @ 100%

• • RC week is next week

• For 70:
  • Feature complete milestone is 8/23
  • Soft code freeze 8/26, email reminder to go out today
  • exception requests listed below in special topics

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Crash Reporter may be partially broken on Fennec, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574804
• The macOS seed pushed out yesterday seems to have addressed the startup crash issues we were seeing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570451

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 7.01, Thursday 7.10

• jed is investigating https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574571, which showed up starting in 8-15 builds
• #6 overall crash stopped in the 8-17 build https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573731 but reappeared now
  • right people needinfoed
• #7 overall https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575163 is Fission related
  • overholt poked it
• Small volume DOM | Workers regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575204
  • bz is needinfoed
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q3

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.92, Thursday 3.77

[69.0b14]

• list of top browser crashes dominated by issues on shutdown - 2 fixes going into beta 15:
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541344
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513855

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.12, Thursday 2.17

• 68.0.2
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513855 is still visible. We are trying to uplift a fix to beta to see if it improves things

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.

Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 83.19, Thursday 83.64

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461724 continues to be one of the top crashes. Awaiting news from the outreach.

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 56.41, Thursday 56.60

• Nothing specific to highlight this week for Fennec beta

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.55, Thursday 19.67

• Filed #16 overall crash in 68.0.2, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574972 (has a patch within the past few hours :)
• Other than that, nothing new to call out for Fennec 68.0.2

Roundtable

• Potentially moving missioncontrol to update on an hourly basis: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575239

Special Topics

Exceptions in 70 so far. All approved.

• Telemetry for about:logins to land late in 70 nightly or early beta 70. Ddurst https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1558235%2C1550631&list_id=14839219
• Normandy addon rollout . New feature in 70. Rehan https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436111

• Inactive CSS (slipped from 69) Pbro. Test plan in place.
• Relationship CFR (slipped from 69) k88hudson. Asked her to file PI request.
• Picture in picture (slipped from 69). Adam Stevenson. Test plan already written for beta testing in 70. Will ship default off in 70.

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx68 post-mortem: https://pad.mozilla.org/p/68-0-Post-Mortem