Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2012-10-09
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Channel Meeting Details
- Tuesdays at 10am PDT, and Thursday at 2:00pm PDT
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
Video/Teleconference Details - NEW
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
- Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
- Vidyo Guest URL
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Contents
Previous Actions
- akeybl to pull numbers on old versions of Firefox
Schedule Update
- Firefox 16 released this morning (throttled) after delays in pushing out desktop/mobile
- We'll unthrottle for 2 days starting Thursday
- Start adding notes to the post-mortem here
- FF17b1 is being built, targeting release of Thursday morning
- FF18.0a2 is targeting release for Friday morning. Opening up mozilla-aurora after the merge is blocked on:
- bug 799277 – merge day robocheck*, roboprovider, robopan reds issues on m-a
- bug 799295 – dromaeo_css crashing every run on Linux32 PGO, in js::gc::MarkKind, on mozilla-aurora
- FF17b2 will be released at 7AM PT on 10/22
Add-ons
- bug 799348 - [Firefox 16] load event is not always triggered by XUL windows.
- Blogging about it later today.
- OK for possible ride-along.
- bug 797378 - Plugin blocks.
- Caused some problems on the plugin pages.
Stability
Flash
- https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?signature=npswf32_11_4_402_287.dll@0x32f0ad crashes showing up but it looks as if we don't have symbols. Discussion on IRC this morning indicating Adobe was having issues uploading them
- After our permissions corrections in bug 798297, Adobe had problems pushing the symbols to our servers, Ted is trying to get this resolved.
Aurora
Beta
Release
Mobile
Stability
see platform and mobile notes
- nightly has gone back down some. Some of the fixes from yesterday helped.
- monitor for feedback: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893284, and http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=6238
QA
- bug 790139 - still wait for crash volume on 17 to see if fix is needed for 16?
QA
QAwanted
- bug 799544 Firefox 16.0 Crash Report [@ mozalloc_abort | NS_DebugBreak_P | X11Error ] when loading about:support
- ashughes is investigating
- repro in 16 Beta, 16 Release, 17 Beta
- does not repro in 18 Aurora, 19 Nightly, 10 ESR
- does not repro on a new profile
- according to Scoobidiver, "it's bug 717663 which has been duped to bug 589546 which was resolved WFM"
Verification Needed
Aurora
Beta
RelEng
- stub installer, and late "go to build" for FF16/FF ESR/TB16/TB ESR friday turned into friday night work for many in RelEng. More on this in postmortem.
- problem with TB 16.0 DE signoff; rebuilds in progress; delayed ship of TB16 until thurs 11oct.
- plugins server fallout from changes to blocklist; need to foreward IT before doing next time?
Marketing/Communications
Support
Thunderbird (Tue)
- Released 10.0.8esr today
- Possibly releasing 16.0 (issues with third-party provider), if not, will release tomorrow
- We had some mac crasher issues in 15.0.1, landed one fix, will review as 16.0 goes out.
- TB 17 should go to beta later this week
Metrics (Thu)
Roundtable
- Top issues we're keeping an eye on for a possible 16.0.1:
- Web Regression: 786740 – CSS transition with rounded borders cause rendering issues
- New Top Crash (security bug): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798045
- Possible add-on compat impact: 799348 – [Firefox 16] load event is not always triggered by XUL windows
Actions
- RelEng to make recommendations around release-cck-mozilla* users on older versions
