Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-10-24

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, sdeiac, Aryx, nlobontiuroman, abodea, vlucaci, csasca, sflorean, cmuntean, obotisan, pascal, ajoltan, RyanVM, mberlinger, oboca, philipp, bmaris, tania, lapahidean, Tom, cfogel

Schedule Update

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

• 71.0b4 gtb today

• 70.0 is throttled; we could consider turning updates back on later today rather than waiting for Friday.

• Still evaluating uplifts for 70.1
  • will need verification for some fixes
  • Middle of next week as tentative release target (so far, no strong time pressure or strong driver)

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

• MC v2 Dashboard is using Data until 10-22-2019
• The v2 Dashboard data was stale for about 4 days. The underlying issue should be fixed now

Nightly

Crash Rate overall 1.80 Crash Incidence overall 4.83%, Mission Control v1 rate 15.90 Tuesday: Crash Rate overall 1.84 Crash Incidence overall 5.33%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.3

• Core DOM Security crash spike in 10/22 builds: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590777
• DOM Service Workers crash spike generated over 1K in crashes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590748
• New JS Spike - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590973 and probably the see also bug as well
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590961
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590920 new Nightlies triggered also should fix those
• Awaiting a fix for Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588152

Beta

Crash Rate overall 3.15 Crash Incidence overall 1.21%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.43 Tuesday: Crash Rate overall 1.72 Crash Incidence overall 1.19%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.71 [71.0b3]

• Crash in [@ mozilla::a11y::Accessible::RelocateChild]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578185 - 1.8% of content crashes
• DNS resolver crashes in AddrHostRecord: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544190 - 0.7% of browser crashes

Release

Crash Rate overall 2.75 Crash Incidence overall 0.74%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.47 Tuesday: Crash Rate overall 1.73 Crash Incidence overall 0.86%, Mission Control v1 rate 1.94

• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590895. Some early comments about Firefox crashing after updating to 10.15
• Crash in mdb_cursor_put: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538541 - 1% of browser crashes
  • related to lmdb/rkv - are some parts of it already shipping?
• Nothing new yet showing up in early returns: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=70.0&process_type=any

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

• https://missioncontrol.telemetry.mozilla.org/#/?channel=nightly is reporting N/A, Tuesday 71.30
  • Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591072

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 51.28, Tuesday 51.41

• Nothing specific to call out for beta

Release

fennec release summary score: 17.96, Tuesday 18.02

• Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591077. Newish crash in 68 cycle that is increasing in volume

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Nothing specific to call out today

QA

Nightly

[gpalko] Antivirus testing is in progress, we'll send the test report tomorrow

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

[Andrei]

• Fennec 68.3b1 build 1 - Signoff Status Green
• [Feature] H.264 support for Android - Sign-off Status GREEN
• [Feature] New Tab Sign in button - Pre-Release sign-off with status GREEN
• [Feature] Onboarding Sign in button - Pre-Release sign-off with status GREEN
• Fennec RC 2.2.0 (build 1 and build 2) - Sign-off Status GREEN

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

• numerous reports about automatic client cert selection no longer working in 70: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=1591031%2C1590979%2C1590596%2C1590297%2C1591067%2C1591024&list_id=14957390
  • but it's a wontfix according to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582926#c6
• some reports that first page load after startup is slow (15 seconds):

   **https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/dm0yxx/firefox_taking_forever_to_load_first_page_when/
   **https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1271170
   **https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/thema/129198-15-sekunden-bis-erste-internetseite-angezeigt-wird/

Roundtable

• switch to Winter time in Europe this weekend

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• https://pad.mozilla.org/p/firefox70-postmortem[[Category:Wikipage template