Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-01-14
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
RyanVM, Aryx, philipp, lizzard,pascal, Thomas, Overholt, Tania, dveditz, dbolter, Marcia
Schedule Update
- 72.0.2 likely this week
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10VEf3__QCWDb4EGom-W6qGPlu71R_fDQiTCLc-7Sggo/edit?ts=5dadf062&pli=1#gid=1009056035 tracks candidates
- Looking at possible 68.4.2esr release as well
- is mobile necessary?
- Very possibly!
- Desktop 73.0b4 and Fennec 68.5b3 shipped @ 100%
- Nightly PI request/ feature tech documentation deadline: jan 17
- It's patch tuesday! & win7 eol
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
Nightly
Today Crash Rate overall 1.95 Crash Incidence overall 2.04%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.39 Thursday Crash Rate overall 1.88 Crash Incidence overall 1.35%, Mission Control v1 rate 8.12
- New Content Processes regression - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607963
- Waiting for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607530 to land to fix another content processes regression
- Since the fix landed for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603976, we have had 1 crash. So things look a bit better here
- New Mozglue regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608645, seems to have a patch
Beta
Today Crash Rate overall 1.91 Crash Incidence overall 1.44%, Mission Control v1 rate 7.29 Thursday Crash Rate overall Crash Incidence overall %, Mission Control v1 rate 15.86
[73.0b4]
- IPC crash in mozilla::net::PDocumentChannelParent::SendRedirectToRealChannel: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606901 - 5.9% of browser crashes
- talk about potential avenues for fixing but no patch yet
- 3rd-party dll crash mozilla::interceptor::ReadOnlyTargetBytes<T>::EnsureLimit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604008 - 2.1% of browser crashes
- has a patch, but it caused another crash with higher volume (bug 1608645) after landing in nightly
- SW e10s fallout:
- [Reopened] AsyncShutdownTimeout | ... | ServiceWorkerShutdownBlocker: shutting down Service Workers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588152 - 1.7% of browser crashes
- [Fixed in 74] Crash in mozilla::dom::ServiceWorkerManager::UpdateInternal: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604943 - 0.2% of browser crashes
- tab crash in mozilla::gfx::AdjustedPattern::operator mozilla::gfx::Pattern*: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604800 - 4.9% of content crashes
- backout we took in b3 was unsuccessful - neeeds further investigation
- tab crash in nvd3d9wrapx.dll (various signatures): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607574 - 2% of content crashes
- no progress so far
- A/V https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604117 - 0.9% of content crashes
Release
Today Crash Rate overall 1.46 Crash Incidence overall 1.09%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.20 Thursday Crash Rate overall Crash Incidence overall %, Mission Control v1 rate 6.42
- 72.0.1 looking mostly ok stability-wise
- Startup crash in nsJSContext::EnsureStatics: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607703 - 0.5% of browser crashes
- has a patch on nightly
- macos crash in TFont::FindColourBitmapForGlyph: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609184 - 0.5% of content crashes
Mobile
Nightly
fennec nightly summary score: 42.26, Thursday 42.82
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527243 continues to be the top crash on nightly
Beta
fennec beta summary score: 42.05, Thursday 42.64
- Nothing specific to report for beta. The top crash echelon looks very much the same as release
Release
fennec release summary score: 16.01, Thursday 16.14
- 68.4.1 release looks good so far - no new issues to report
Fenix/Firefox Preview
- Fairly large nightly spike in a few signatures in Fenix nightly
- Crashes in crash stats that have a java exception need to have a bug filed in Github
- Still awaiting seeing crash stats again in Socorro for release
QE
Nightly
- feature prioritization is in progress
- https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-443 (off-train) lacking documentation
- https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-411 missing trello card
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
- feature testing is on track.
- received a late PI request (https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-445) no nightly testing was requested, to be uplifted to beta. Reporter informed that exception request has been initiated.
- also the technical guideline doc to be updated.
Action items
Mobile
User Advocacy/ SUMO Report
- pocket discovery stream rollout for de-de in 72: a number of users experiencing this as a regression as it's no longer possible to set the number of rows for articles: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608656, https://support.mozilla.org/questions/firefox?owner=all&tagged=bug1608656&show=all, https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/elrqal/, https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/thema/129830-pocket-nur-noch-eine-zeile/, https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/thema/129832-pocket-nur-eine-zeile/,...
Roundtable
Special Topics
- Possibly of interest: End of support for Thunderbird &Seamonkey crash reports https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608971
- Ending macOS support (for firefox), 10.9 and ??
Please comment if you have feedback.
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