Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-12-08

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am 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

RyanVM, pascal, jcristau, Thomas, Aryx, dveditz, raresb, kevin

Schedule Update

• 84 rc week
  • RC2 likely coming
• 85 soft code freeze this Thursday

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 2.13 (+0.07 compared to last week), crash incidence: 1.93% (+0.06pp), mc1 summary score: 3.87

• linux webrender crasher fixed today [@ webrender::renderer::Renderer::draw_frame]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632698

• nightlies respun for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681244

• fission/wayland crash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648698

• a11y crash [@ mozilla::a11y::DocAccessibleParent::AddChildDoc ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669748

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 1.61 (-0.82), crash incidence: 1.23% (-2.14pp), mc1 summary score: 8.15

• No new issues in RC1

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.23 (-0.02), crash incidence: 0.79% (-0.03pp), mc1 summary score: 1.86

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Nightly is in rough shape
  • Nimbus has caused some significan hangs/crashes https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/16902

QA

Nightly

• Feature testing in progress
• WebGL Remoting - Yellow due to no Linux support, fps drops with certain tests and support issues on low-end Windows machines without Flash
• Modernized Print UI, Phase 3 - Yellow due to high number of new and old issues, not all features from the scope landed (regressions expected)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Apple ARM testing is in progress - plan to send the testing report by EOW
  • Finished covering the tests on DTK machines (MacStadium) and moved on to the remaining ones to be covered on physical M1 mini Macs
  • QA Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1679366
  • High severity Pinterest issue recently found: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681301

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 84
  • All good here! No challenged or at risk features
• Firefox 85
  • [challenged] Move WebGL drawing to the GPU Process - Likely to slip due to an outstanding blocker bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1640607. Waiting for an official decision.
  • Some Security related work around 'Network Partitioning' and Password Manager Improvements still not yet landed. Team is working toward getting that done this week. Expect an update today.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• 83 postmortem moved to after the moco meeting next week
• 86 release manager is Pascal

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)