Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-09-12

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

Attendees

• marcia, lizzard, adrian_sv, ajoltan, Aryx, sflorean, mlobontiuroman, atrif, csasca, vlucaci, ebalazs, philipp,tania, bmaris, lapahidean, drus, Tom, RyanVM, pascal, tzsoldos, abodea

Schedule Update

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

• Planning a Fennec 68.1.1 gtb Thursday to fix arm64 leanplum issues.
• 69.0.1 probably coming next week.

• 70.0b6 should build today and release on Friday.

Release metrics

Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs

• Stability
• Performance
• Security
• Functionality

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• If you are interested in Glean crash recording capabilities, please feel free to weigh in on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575850

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 3.09, Tuesday 3.10

• New small volume Font crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580690
• Fix for #11 overall top macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201401 looks good so far. Time will tell if it is truly fixed
• Core A/V crash is resolved fixed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579136

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.58, Tuesday 4.02

[70.0b5]

• no particular concerns atm - fix for a11y topcrasher https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578282 successful

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.60, Tuesday 2.92

• #14 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576386 is fixed in nightly, uplift being requested for 70
• office365 tab crashes are continuing to be quite frequent: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579858 & need investigation
• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580841 - new macOS crash introduced in 69

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: 79.46, Tuesday 79.93

• Nothing specific to call out for nightly. No new crashes and a few single installation crashes

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 55.56, Tuesday 55.81

• Nothing specific to call out for beta. No new crashes and a few single installation crashes

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.35, Tuesday 19.42

• Android Vitals look good in the GPC. No ANR issues in 68.1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 continues to be the top overall crash
• #3 overall top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 is assigned, but no recent movement on it
• #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579222 in XP Connect also has not recent

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Nothing new - 1.4.1 was just pushed out.

QA

Nightly

[timea]

• Nightly 71.0a1 Core Regression testing (round 1) is in progress - ETA tomorrow EOD
• [Beta] Antivirus testing round 1 (out of 3) - in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

• Firefox 68.2b2 Build 1 - Signed Off with status Green
• Firefox Preview - RC 1.4.1 - sign-off with status GREEN
• Firefox Preview - RC 2.0.0-rc.2 - in progress

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Aiming for Fx69 post-mortem on 24-Sep