Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2014-11-11

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• Meeting archive: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Category:Channel_Meetings

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

Attendance

Attendees: lmandel, bhearsum, lizzard, sylvestre jorge, kairo, ashughes, juanb, kbrosnan, cww, rrayborn Regrets:

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review (Thursday prior to GA Release)

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks after GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

Known issues

Add-ons

Stability

QA

RelMan

Schedule Update

• 33.1 shipped! (applause)
• 33.1.1?
  • bug 1021265 - DisplayLink (dlumd32.dll) => incorrect patch landed in 33.1
  • bug 1096492 - crash in nsTArray_Impl<mozilla::dom::workers::WorkerFeature*, ... >, often at 0x5a5a5caa address => no patch yet
• 34 beta8 scheduled to ship today
  • ETA on QE desktop and mobile sign-offs
    • (desktop) will take me another few minutes for desktop - and signoff maybe another hour - liz
    • (mobile) not going to ship today, see stability section for details

Add-ons

• Some add-on compat problems in 33.1: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2014/11/11/firefox-33-1-compatibility/

Stability

Nightly

• total crash rate is high but better than over the weekend
• bug 1089364 (gfx) is ~35% of browser crashes, bug 1088148 (a11y+e10s) ~25% (builds of last 3 days)

Aurora / Dev Edition

• bug 1078674 (startup, randomly-named library on stack) is now #1 (30%) in builds from the last 3 days.
• bug 1091903 (mozilla::gfx::SourceSurfaceD2D1::SourceSurfaceD2D1) is #2 with 8%
• bug 1089454 (DrawingContext::FillRectangle) has 3%
• bug 1097138 (appleffdav.dll) has 7%

Beta

• Crash rates remain good.
• bug 1076917 (startup, npTNT2.dll) is a concern but happens on all channels.

Release

• bug 1096492 is now #2 with >2.5% of 33.1 crashes, almost all on Google Maps.
• DisplayLink startup crash bug 1021265 is not fixed and again in the top 20, looks like we had a bug in the patch.
• FYI, query with up-to-the-minute data (if not cached) is here: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?product=Firefox&version=33.1&process_type=%21plugin&build_id=20141106120505&build_id=20141030112145&_facets=signature&_columns=date&_columns=signature&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform

Mobile

• Advise not to ship 34.0b8 in it current state as bug 1091599 is expected to go through the roof. We probably should not ship a new feature in the second-to-last beta at all.

Performance (Thu)

Aurora

Beta

Release

QE

QAwanted

Verification Needed

Nightly

Aurora

Beta

• window.crypto.signText replacement (affects banks, govts. in EU) landed in 34.0b8 - bug 1083118
• lmandel to ask whether privacy tour should be first run on 34

Mobile

RelEng

• Looking to send some release channel update traffic to Balrog soon
  • consensus was to test on Wed this week

User Advocacy

FUN!

Bumps with 33.1:

• Still have graphics issues (less than 33.0.2 and below)
• Forget is confusing (looks like refresh, you lose all your tabs, even if you choose 5 minutes)
• Forget button breaks themes: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1030198
• People are confused by 33 update notification (some users are saying they get the notice but can't update: "Latest update says "restart to update", but does nothing when I click on it."
• Lots of complaints about update frequency (this was a prompted update, right after users had just updated)
• Addon issues

Bumps with Dev Edition:

• Bookmarks/profile loss (can recover them but it happens without much warning or explanation) UA is working on a notification to explain the recovery process

Roundtable

• (lmandel) Want to put together a list of common release issues for which we have little awareness so that we can discuss ways to improve our understanding of releases in Portland - please add to this list
  • gfx card/driver (impacted 33)
  • DOM/JS/Layout Web compat changes (Verizon Webmail)
  • Add-on compatibility (33.1 version # issue)
  • Plug-ins (issues with new releases, stability)
  • Malware or well intentioned but poorly implemented add-ons and plug-ins
  • Security changes impact on release population
  • l10n use, status, impact
  • networking (http/2)

• (lmandel) Work week sessions - (Time TBD)
  • Measure to identify issues earlier (see above list)
  • Issue mitigation strategies

• (kairo) FYI, Aurora had significantly larger ADI yesterday than last week - and that's counting the UTC day that ended at ~5pm Pacific, we'll see if today will be even higher and if higher levels persist.
  • Nightly ADI data has gone down very significantly recently, possibly due to high frequency of stability issues, we should look into that.