Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-01-16

Channel Meeting Details

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

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573 https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573 +17207072699,,266532573# US Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

RyanVM, pascal, julien, aflorinescu, sdeiac, mlobontiuroman, vlucaci,atrif,sflorean, asoncutean, Aryx, ccomorasu, drus, tbabos, mboldan, rbologa, hyacoub,lapahidean, philipp, cfogel, cionce, dcicas,taniam,ppop, tzsoldos, callek, obotisan

Schedule Update

• 72.0.2 gtb in the air

• 73.0b6 gtb today

• Going forward

Release metrics

Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs

• Stability
• Performance
• Security
• Functionality

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Add-ons

Stability

the situation

Nightly

• crashes earlier today: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609144 fixed in the latest Nightly started 4h ago (updates disabled in the mean time)
• MCv1: 6.51 due to increase in application crashes on Mac and Linux (MCv2's data 2 days behind => not using it)
• shutdown hangs doubled: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505660
• crash in [@ RtlAcquireSRWLockExclusive | mozilla::MozPromise<T>::ChainTo] considered fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607963
• crash in [@ mozilla::nt::PEHeaders::FindExportAddressTableEntry] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608645 has patch

Beta

73.0b4: MCv2 1.72 (10% decrease driven by less browser crashes), Linux crash rate back to normal

• Bug 1604800 (5.59%): Will be landing a backout in b6 to hopefully address
• Bug 1607574 (1.79%): Still discussing options
• Bug 1604117 (1.26%): Has patch ready for b6 uplift
• Bug 1604180 (1.08%): On autoland now, will try to get into b6 today

Release

• MCv1: 2.84 - less crashes, mostly to higher stability of application (compared to content crashes)

Mobile

Nightly

Beta

Release

Fenix/Firefox Preview

QE

Nightly

[aflorinescu]

• Regression Nightly74 testing round 1 finished - report will be sent EOD (5 new bugs found, none major)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[cornel]

• Round 2 of beta regression testing is in progress *due tomorrow
• Antivirus testing completed with no new issues

Action items

Mobile

[Mira]

• Firefox Beta 68.5b3 - sign-off GREEN
• Migration testing on Nightly build in progress - the signoff will be sent tomorrow EOD
• Focus Beta 8.0.25 GV 71.0.1 - status GREEN
• Fenix beta 3.1.0-beta3 - status YELLOW

User Advocacy/ SUMO Report

Roundtable

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

72 tbd

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