Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-03-31
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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
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REMEMBER
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Contents
Attendees
RyanVM, jcristau, Aryx, pascal, philipp, roland, telin,taniam, dveditz
Schedule Update
- Fx75 RC1 gtb today
- Hopefully Desktop & Fennec 68.7esr also (waiting on one rebased patch)
- Nightly soft freeze starts Friday
- fenix 4.2 at 100%
- fenix beta migration in 4 countries
Release Metrics
Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs
- Stability
- Performance
- Security
- Functionality
- Accessibility
Desktop Stability
Nightly
mc2 crash rate: 1.65, crash incidence: 2.72%, mc1 summary score: 5.91 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.67, crash incidence: 2.09%, mc1 summary score: 5.65
- Recent spike from bug 1625227 fixed by backout
- Bug 1624250 [@ core::option::expect_failed | webrender::scene_building::NodeIdToIndexMapper::get_spatial_node_index] still happening
- Bug 1624881 [@ webrender::spatial_tree::SpatialTree::get_relative_transform] under investigation
- Bug 1580565 [@ mozilla::dom::BrowsingContext::IPCInitializer::GetParent ] rising lately w/ stale NI requests
- Bug 1624886 [@ js::wasm::WasmFrameIter::instance] under investigation
Beta
mc2 crash rate: 1.48, crash incidence: 1.55%, mc1 summary score: 3.59 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.55, crash incidence: 1.56%, mc1 summary score: 3.81
- took a look at b11 crash data - nothing unusual or of interest there
Release
mc2 crash rate: 1.30, crash incidence: 1.16%, mc1 summary score: 2.44 thursday mc2 crash rate: 1.30, crash incidence: 1.16%, mc1 summary score: 2.57
- 74 is humming along nicely
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
QA
Covid19 special testing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vwe2GxrS-mbAG4m15PJEfV80jEsml5hvb4scGD3RxQQ/edit#gid=0
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Mobile
Action items
Feature Status Review
- Fx76 breaking change review completed
- Decision made to defer TLS Deprecation rollout and a handful of Media features
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mhnrozIqAOglM_GtsZdgMst7hQ9EcBAKEAvn5psjtnI/edit#gid=0
- (75) Windows Default Browser Agent (WDBA) looks to be on track for Fx75 Release. Rachel advised they are watching things closely until final RC build validation. QA already provided a GREEN sign off.
- (76) ETP: Cookie Restrictions: List 2 release rollout remains challenged. Waiting on Revenue experiment results from Google before making a final decision.
(READ ONLY)
- Async Captured Stacks deferred to Fx77 due to some outstanding dependencies
- Service Worker Debugging slipped to Fx77 due to a blocker bug
- DevTools Application Panel 1.1 (Service Workers) MVP also slipped to Fx77 as it is dependent on Service Worker Debugging
- Purging Tracking Cookies (Enhanced Tracking Protection-Phase 2) deferred to Fx77
- Search Modernization deferred to Fx77 due to some depenencies on Normandy functionality that are not quite ready yet
User Advocacy / SUMO Report
- [roland] nothing to report
Roundtable & Special Topics
- Add the [wfh] tag to bugs which may affect people working from home
- QA is also monitoring such bugs to prioritize testing
- Release owner for 77 is pascal