Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-04-01
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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
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Contents
Attendees
RyanVM, abodea, Aryx, mlobontiuroman, phorea, lapahidean, JR, ebalazs, cbaica, pascal, mboldan
Schedule Update
- pwn2own next week
- no 87 dot release driver at this stage
- 88.0b6 gtb today, last early Beta
- Fenix 88.0.0-beta.3 live @ 100%
Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)
Desktop Stability
Nightly
mc2 crash rate:1.92 (+0.03 compared to previous week), crash incidence: 1.54% (+0.06pp)
- don't trust the mc2 nightly data see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696494#c3
mc1 crash rate: 10.29 (-2.31) crashes/1k usage hours
- [@ webrender::picture::PicturePrimitive::take_context ]
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699854
- became frequent on Wednesday (~15 affected installations/Nightly), aosmond needinfoed
Beta
mc2 crash rate: 2.05 (+0.79), crash incidence: 1.53% (-1.05pp)
mc1 crash rate: 7.76 (-0.88)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1700586 [@ js::frontend::CompilationStencil::instantiateStencils] is trending high
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701559 [@ core::option::expect_none_failed | webrender::render_backend::RenderBackend::update_document]
Release
mc2 crash rate: 1.31(-0.07), crash incidence: 0.73% (-0.12pp)
mc1 crash rate: 1.84 (-0.24)
- topcrash in [@ JS_WrapValue] with Intel GeminiLake (UHD Graphics 600/605)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1702019
- current theory: Microsoft rolled back microcode updates for the CPU in its march updates which increases the likelihood of a build being affected
Mobile Stability
Fenix
QA
[cbadau]
- Windows 10 21h1 testing - in progress
Nightly
[cbadau]
- Nightly 89 feature testing - in progress
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
[cbadau]
- Beta 88 feature pre-release testing - in progress
- Antivirus testing - in progress
- Regression testing round 2 - in progress
Mobile
[ebalazs]
- Firefox Beta 88.0.0-beta.1, beta.2, beta.3 - status GREEN
- [desktop] [mobile] WebRTC Nightly 89 - status GREEN
Action items
Feature Status Review
- 88 beta
- CSV import of login data: yellow signoff with a long list of bugs, discussion ongoing
- 89 remains challenged with various MR1 features
SUMO Report
Roundtable & Special Topics
Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
fx85 notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DEpgPwFLFPdHClB1Lg7zieMMnglElfDJUyg8roUhUTs/edit#
Highlights:
- appreciated the holiday break and added 2 weeks
- stability issues in early beta were fixed in a timely fashion
- we shipped rc1, which is quite rare
- 2 dot releases
- driver for 85.0.1 was printing related
- driver for 85.0.2 was a deadlock in networking, we don't really know why it showed up in 85; didn't bubble up until after shipping 85.0.1
gathering fx87 notes at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ghOK0DqIzgsPiqBjLqmrzQjt9MrYOY-gTUyTKzCMDME/edit