Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-01-09
Channel Meeting Details
- Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings
Video/Teleconference Details - NEW Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573 https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573 +17207072699,,266532573# US Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu
Contents
Attendees
marcia, RyanVM, cfogel, Pascal, Aryx, mlobontiuroman, cionce, bmaris, sflorean, drus, lapahidean, ebalazs, philipp, tbabos, sdeiac, rbologa, tmaity, rpopovici, obotisan, mberlinger, ccomorasu, Tom, asoncutean, dcicas, cfat, csasca,
Schedule Update
- 72.0.1, 73.0b2, 68.4.1esr, Fennec 68.4.1, Fenix 3.0.2, etc etc etc shipped @ 100% yesterday
[bmaris]
- 24 January - SV RO holiday
- Firefox 73.0b9 scheduled the same day
- [ryan] we'll ship it and keep our fingers crossed
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
Add-ons
Stability
- Both Release and Beta don't yet have enough adoption to report valid data for Mission Control v2
Nightly
Today Crash Rate overall 1.88 Crash Incidence overall 1.35%, Mission Control v1 rate 8.12 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.71 Crash Incidence overall 1.85%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.34
- #3 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603976 has some traction
- macOS touch bar crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607140 is resolved fixed
- Several zero installation crashes on Windows
Beta
Crash Rate overall Crash Incidence overall %, Mission Control v1 rate 15.86 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.53 Crash Incidence overall 1.18%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.2
[73.0b2] stability status "challenged"
- New Printing crash is quite high in b2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607671 - 33% of all browser crashes
- aiming to backout regressing patch before 73.0b3 build today
- Storage Crash in [@ mozilla::ThreadEventTarget::IsOnCurrentThreadInfallible]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604005 - 5.3% of browser crashes
- has a patch with uplift request
- Crash with 3rd-party modules in [@ mozilla::interceptor::ReadOnlyTargetBytes<T>::EnsureLimit]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604008 - 3.8% of browser crashes
- IPC Crash in [@ mozilla::net::PDocumentChannelParent::SendRedirectToRealChannel]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606901 - 3.2% of browser crashes
- some Linux gfx crashes: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?signature=%400x0%20%7C%20moz_gtk_widget_paint & https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?signature=%400x0%20%7C%20nsNativeThemeGTK%3A%3ADrawWidgetBackground - 3.5% of browser crashes
- crashing stopped on 74.0a1 nightly, so the hope is that uplifting https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607088 to beta might take care of this too
- Tab crash in [@ nvd3d9wrapx.dll|... ] (various signatures): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607574 - 8% of content crashes
- Tab crash in mozilla::gfx::AdjustedPattern::operator mozilla::gfx::Pattern*: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604800 - 4.3% of content crashes
- backout requested on beta
Release
Today Crash Rate overall Crash Incidence overall %, Mission Control v1 rate 6.42 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.42 Crash Incidence overall 1.01%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.46
[72.0.1]
- increasing startup crash signature [@ nsJSContext::EnsureStatics]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607703 - 1% of browser crashes
Mobile
Nightly
fennec nightly summary score: 42.82
- Nothing specific to highlight today
Beta
fennec beta summary score: 42.64
- Still fairly early for beta data, nothing significant to report as of yet
Release
fennec release summary score: 16.14
- Stuck partial wake locks issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586853 has an updated comment
- Early data still coming in. Continuing device specific issues in the top 5 crashes (Huawei)
Fenix/Firefox Preview
- Socorro fix not in 3.0.2, so nothing much to report yet for the new version
- Nothing in the Play store either
QE
Nightly
[rpopovici] **readonly
- Test documentation for Fx73 features - finishing tp/tc and sending for review (where applicable)
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
[bmaris]
- First round of Beta 73 Regression Testing is in progress - https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/plans/view/24079
Action items
Mobile
[sdeiac]
- [mobile] Build of fennec 68.4.1 build 1 - Signed Off status GREEN
- [mobile] Build of fennec 68.5b2 build 1 - Signed Off Status GREEN
- [mobile] Build of fennec 68.5b1 build 1 - Signed Off Status GREEN
- [mobile] Fennec Profile Manager (internal tool for migration) - Signed Off Status GREEN
- Focus and Fenix signoffs in progress (will be sent by EOD)
User Advocacy/ SUMO Report
Roundtable
- (pascal) Should we report dataloss / major feature bugs in the channel meeting? (mostly in Nightly)
- [julien] I'm all for discussing (or at least noting) blocker bugs
Special Topics
Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
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