Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-10-08

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, Aryx, lizzard, telin, ryanvm, philipp, pascal, Tania, Julien, Ritu, kbrosnan

Schedule Update

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

• 69.0.3 is coming. Like Winter.
  • 2 patches, may be delayed till later this week.

• 70.0b13 build monday, released today
  • various last minute bugs that needed to go in, build problems, meant a long day/late build 3 on Monday.
  • 68.2b6

Release metrics

Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a0f8cDojanXaT44ATyK1KpK0OGcoI2eRIas4Mjk_C8Y/edit#gid=1956837358

• Stability

1. of tracked crashers ~8

• Performance
• Security

1. of 70 "affected" sec-high, sec-crit is 10

• Functionality

1. of open carryover regressions is ~75

Off-train releases

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

• Experiment launching today for Pocket engagement metrics for the Direct Response Story Card. The Direct Response Story Card displays a thumbnail with a video playhead and a Call to Action.

Stability

• Windows printing crash spiking across channels: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585109 - 18% of browser crashes on release
  • Microsoft is on the case & fix apparently shipping as a part of patch tuesday
• macOS 10.15 started rolling out yesterday
  • WR broken on some machines - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558167 https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/df1awl/big_problems_with_firefox_after_updating_to/

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 4.63, Thursday 4.43

• JS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584814 still very visible in nightly. Waiting to see if the fix worked in the other bug
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584820 seems to show no crashes in the latest 10/8 nightly
• #6 overall WR crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585801 is rising at bit. Waiting to see if it is related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582645
• #9 overall JS crash has no comments since it was filed. Do we know what caused the spike?
• One more JS crashes with no activity since it was filed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585264
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586433 was fixed by backout

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.89, Thursday 3.19

• crashes with kaspersky involvement: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580934 - 1% of browser crashes
  • nss team +relman is talking with them . unlikely to be fixed before 70 release but we'll follow it past release.
• Mac crash in Crash in [@ __cxa_rethrow]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579431 - 0.2% of browser crashes
  • has a patch requesting uplift \o/

Release

firefox release summary score: 1.98, Thursday 2.04

• Filed Windows DOM crash - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586812 . Happening because

LSNG has been disabled in late 69 beta cycle

• See Line 48 for the other high volume crash

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: 73.98, Thursday 75.00

• New regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586770, added ni for investigation

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 52.56, Thursday 53.20

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 seems to still be happening after the fix
  • AI marcia to file a new bug to cover the new signatures

Release

fennec release summary score: 18.46, Thursday 18.66

• #16 overall https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566896 is still fairly high on release. Asked jvarga to weigh in

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Fenix v2.1.0 is out at 10%, awaiting more data

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Skyline P1 bugs
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586647
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586304

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• skyline burndown is looking good: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Skyline#Burndown_list
• Skyline Go-live control room planned for Oct 22 @ 5:15am pst. Similiar to what we did for both Trailhead and Quantum to allow for a broader set of stake holders to participate in the launch process as we go through some of our release checkpoints and various product/marketing launches happening that morning.

Special Topics

• Play Liz's goose text adventure game! Shameless self promotion. https://www.endofgreatness.com/officegoose/play.html

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)