Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-08-27
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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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Contents
Attendees
- marcia, RyanVM, philipp, Aryx, telin, tania, dveditz, Ritu, dbolter
Schedule Update
Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard
- 69.0 RC1 live @ 100% on Beta update channel
- WNP testing on release-localtest completed by QA
- Fennec 68.1b8 live @ 100% on Google Play
- 68.1 RC gtb tomorrow?
- DevEdition 70.0b1 build3 underway, should be live on Aurora later today
- Delayed due to langpack bustage during build promotion
- QA signed off on build2, only difference vs. build3 is langpack fix
- Desktop 68.1esr RC is ready for QA
- Desktop 60.9esr still waiting on a rebased patch before gtb
- Final merge day is Monday, 2-Sep. Also a US holiday.
- Go-live is Tuesday, 3-Sep.
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=1566855 landed 5 days ago. We should keep an eye on single-installation crashes with orphaned minidump
- Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576264 to account for a higher than normal instance of 0 install crashes
Nightly
firefox nightly summary score: 6.61, Thursday 6.85
- New Core | Graphics Layers crash, small volume https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576767
- Font related crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576846
- New DOM | Quota Manager crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576593
- Small volume Web Replay crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576927
- Latest nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q3
Beta
firefox beta summary score: 3.96, Thursday 3.97
[69.0b16]
- Crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetD2D1::CreateBrushForPattern: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576372 - 0.8% of tab crashes
- newly regressing in b16
- Increase in [@ OOM | small] crashes containing memory reports in Firefox 69 - filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575950 for investigation
- Crash in [@ shutdownhang | nsThread::Shutdown | nsNotifyAddrListener::Shutdown]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576386 - 0.4% of browser crashes
- Crash in [@ nsGlobalWindowInner::ClearDocumentDependentSlots]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576452 - 0.3% of tab crashes
Release
firefox release summary score: 2.08, Thursday 2.11
- Top macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201401 has a tryserver build. Awaiting feedback from those that can repro
- Nothing much of note for 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.
Nightly
fennec nightly summary score: 82.55, Thursday 82.83
- Fix for top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575605 looks good on nightly so far
Beta
fennec beta summary score: 56.28, Thursday 56.31
- Nothing specific to call out for beta
Release
fennec release summary score: 19.50, Thursday 19.53
- SprintLiteral continues to be the top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461724. Investigation and outreach continuing
- #3 crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 is quite high on 68.
- #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801617 has accumulated almost 24K in crash volume
Fenix/Firefox Preview
- #2 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569312. Affects Fennec as well, but the stacks are different
QA
Nightly
- Nightly Test Reports have been shared today (except for Password Generation on Desktop, to be sent this week), features are stable, no critical issues observed
Aurora / Dev Edition
[Read Only]
- QA sent Green sign off for Firefox DevEdition 70.0b1 (build 2)
Beta
[Read Only]
- Manual QA signed off Green on Firefox 69.0 (build2) testing, found one new issue - 1576894
Action items
Mobile Stability
SUMO Report / User Advocacy
Roundtable
- [read-only] Android 10 supposed to get released on September 3rd (Fx 69 release date)