Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-08-22

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

• marcia, RyanVM, drus, mboldan, ajoltan, avaida, cbaica, Tom, philipp, dolah, mberlinger, tania, adrian_sv, ebalazs, sdeiac, lapahidean , Ritu, ccomorasu, Aryx, vlucaci, tbabos

Schedule Update

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

• 69.0b16 gtb today

• RC week next week
  • Fennec 68.1b8 gtb Monday, RC gtb Tuesday or Wednesday
  • 68.1esr RC gtb Monday
  • 69.0 RC gtb Monday
  • DevEdition 70.0b1 gtb Monday

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.85 Tuesday 7.01

• New crash related to memory - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575842
• Some progress made on Core | IPC crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574571
• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575846 since it showed up again in the nightly crash report

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.97, Tuesday 3.92 (was 2.51 at the end of 68.0b cycle)

• Stalled DOM | Service Workers crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403348 is #6 overall in b15
• [@OOM | small] crashes containing memory reports on the rise in 69: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?product=Firefox&release_channel=beta&contains_memory_report=%21__null__&signature=OOM%20%7C%20small&date=%3E%3D2019-03-01#graphs
  • will file a bug to investigate this later on

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.11, Tuesday 2.12

• smichaud is looking into longstanding top macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201401. thanks for your efforts!
• Mission Control shows an increase in Linux main crashes: https://missioncontrol.telemetry.mozilla.org/#/release/linux
• Not much else significant to call out today

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: 82.83, Tuesday 83.19

• #9 overall crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573486 is visible. Correlated to OnePlus devices

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 56.31, Tuesday 56.41

• Some instances of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575605 fixed, but still an issue on beta and nightly. Rotating phones seems to be the cause

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.53, Tuesday 19.55

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 is stalled, but we should try to investigate why this is happening based on the crash volume

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557449 continues to be the top crash in the 1.3 release

QA

• [avaida] Planning to add test coverage for 1565315, 1560228, 1565780, 1567105 and 1567614 (opportunities identified during 68.0.2 dot release analysis)

Nightly

• [Dani]
• Nightly 70(Skyline): Nightly feature testing and test reports (where applicable)
• Nightly 70(Skyline): Regression Testing (next week - 08.26-08.30)
• [avaida] macOS 10.15 testing ongoing, Beta 6 no longer showing start-up issues

Beta

[avaida]

• Pre-Release feature sign offs on track, will be completed by Aug 23, eod
• Final round of Antivirus testing for Beta 69 to be completed by Aug 23, eod
  • Haven't seen any updates regarding 1569456 (Widevinecdm load is blocked by Bitdefneder and crashes)

Mobile Stability

[Andrei]Sign Off - Firefox 68.1b7 and second round of BFT's- Sign Off[Green] [Read only] - Firefox Preview RC 1.3.0 sign off Green