Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-01-12

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

pascal, jcristau, RyanVM, Aryx, vbalducci,JR, telin, bkaluzny, brosnan, dveditz, troy, bittin(Luna)[Joined Late]

Schedule Update

• 85.0b7 shipped Sunday
• 85.0b8 gtb today
• heading to 85 rc next week

• fenix 85.0.0-beta.7 on google play

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.76 (+0.05 compared to last week), crash incidence: 1.94 (+0.04)%, mc1 summary score: 3.62

Good overall stability, trending down since last week

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1685436 is fixed (Crash in [@ __ioctl] with VA-API decoder), was a big crasher but for few users
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1669748 significant crash on Nightly (Crash in [@ mozilla::a11y::DocAccessibleParent::AddChildDoc])
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1685463 other signiicant crahsh, not clear if Fission only (rdd Crash in [@ __pthread_setaffinity_new])

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 2.22 (-0.09), crash incidence: 1.52% (-0.14), mc1 summary score: 4.51

• OOMs make up the majority of the top 10 signatures
• Overall seem fairly quiet

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.38 (+0.04), crash incidence: 0.89% (-0.01), mc1 summary score: 1.84

• Lots of xul.dll crashes being reported (i.e. https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=xul.dll&version=84.0.2&date=%3C2021-01-12T17%3A43%3A49%2B00%3A00&date=%3E%3D2021-01-05T17%3A43%3A49%2B00%3A00 )

Mobile Stability

Focus

• 8.11.3 looks good

Fenix

• not seeing anything alarming in Nightly/Beta/Release

QA

• Planning started for Proton foundations work - https://trello.com/c/gLlKI64r

Nightly

• Nightly 86 feature reports on track - will be completed by Jan 19
  • WebGL Remoting - https://trello.com/c/LjdretYl - awaiting confirmation from engineering on whether this is still targeting Fx86

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 85 feature pre-release sign offs on track - will be completed by Jan 15
  • Staged Rollout: Tab modal print UI - https://trello.com/c/S1CerBP2 - will also be signed off by the same date
• Beta 85 end-to-end testing completed - https://trello.com/c/pPzITCZx - 2 new defects found: 1685696, 1686047

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• No challenged or at risk features for either Beta Fx85 or Nightly Fx68
  • Waiting on a few landings in Nightly around; newtab update, download token, backwards compat of the infobar, and moving WebGL drawing to the GPU process.

SUMO Report

• No major updates. Currently busy reviewing deplatforming post plus VPN 2.0 launch
• Any concerns that SUMO should be tracking mentions on?
  • Tracking Print UI mentions

Pre-release channels activities

• Windows download link on https://beta.mozilla.org was changed from the stub installer to the full installer (the stub installer replaces Firefox Release with no option to install beta alongside Release)
• Firefox Beta notes now incitates people to report bugs to bugzilla
• Link to Firefox Beta twitter account added to beta release notes and beta download page (replaces a dead "feedback" link which was just a blank page)

Roundtable & Special Topics

• 86 features list is light, the 2 items added at the moment were not in Trello, the AVIF change probably should
  • AV1F is in the "Web Platform" trello board. For security reviews I have to look at both.

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 84 PM next Tuesday