Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-02-11

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

Pascal, jcristau, RyanVM, philipp, Aryx,taniam, telin, overholt, dbolter, Callek, Saptarshi, wlach, elan

Schedule Update

• Desktop 73.0 shipped today at 25%
• ESR 68.5.0 shipped today at 100%
• Desktop Beta 74.0b1 shipped today at 25%
• DevEdition 74.0b1 shipped today at 100%
• Fennec 68.6b1 shipped today at 100%
  • 68.6b2 might be the last for a while as fenix migration is set to start next week

• nightly is 75

Release metrics

Report on release criteria metrics

• Stability
• Performance
• Security
• Functionality

Desktop Stability

mc1: https://missioncontrol.telemetry.mozilla.org/#/ mc2: https://metrics.mozilla.com/public/sguha/mc2/missioncontrol_v2.html

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.61, crash incidence: 1.82%, mc1 summary score: 12.17 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.62, crash incidence: 1.71%, mc1 summary score: 5.31

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614259 Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::Location::CallerSubsumes] (2.21% of crashes)
• IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill crashes now have more meaningful signatures, that means a lot of new signatures showing up, some have bugs filed.

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 1.60, crash incidence: 1.11%, mc1 summary score: 33.96 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.57, crash incidence: 1.46%, mc1 summary score: 3.43

[74.0b1]

• macos crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596826 reappearing
  • was fixed by backout during 73
  • Andrew asked Markus and he said he'd update it

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.36, crash indicence: 1.05%, mc1 summary score: 18.52 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.35, crash indicence: 1.05%, mc1 summary score: 2.28

[73.0]

• rel-noted startup crash with 0patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604008 - 33% of browser crashes
  • already getting reports on sumo: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1279533, https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/thema/130013-unvertr%C3%A4glichkeit-von-ff-73-und-0patch/, https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/f2bna9/firefox_crashes_continuously_after_updated_to_73/
• gtk crash: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613130 - 5.3% of browser crashes

Mobile Stability

Fennec

• 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.

Fenix

• No updates this week, working on finding a longer-term owner for this

QA

Nightly

• 9 PI requests so far, mostly carryovers

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• testing is on track, no concerns.
• waiting for exception approval process to be completed for https://jira.mozilla.com/browse/PI-469

Mobile

Action items

User Advocacy/ SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• WNP - QA request template (draft) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/15OqhxhIvesRtQEkv0Fs8i_jJNSRGHI6NyxnhVUzx6Qo/edit?usp=sharing
• Emily Toop, JLorenzo, Mihai, RyanVM and others working through Fenix/GeckoView ChemSpill process/checklist
• Discussion about future of Mission Control
  • elan to set up meeting with stakeholders to figure out product owners and roadmap

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)