Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2014-11-27

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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

REMEMBER

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Attendance

Attendees: lmandel, lsblakk, catlee, rrayborn, spolk, jorge, ashughes, bsmedberg, lizzard, kbrosnan, aaronmt, kairo
Regrets: Sylvestre

Special Topics

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

Known issues

NPOTB

• bug 1052480 Add-ons Flashblock and FlashStopper conflict with Bug 1050049
• bug 1076917 crash in npTNT2.dll

Build2 drivers

• bug 1102323 Make yandex default search plugins (and first) for Ukrainian, desktop and mobile
• bug 1102416 [34.0.5 only] make Yahoo default for builds in North American timezones
• bug 1104218 Yahoo search plugin changes for 34.0
• bug 1104823 UiTour associated with the new searchbar generates an error in the browser console. - MUST BLOCK (bsmedberg)
• bug 1104846 The search engine favicons are distorted in search preferences on Windows

Potential point release ride-alongs

• bug 1098266 impress.js - Elements switching between visible and not
• bug 1102906 Contenteditable: Drag and drop locks caret (also affected CKEditor and TinyMCE as well as Thunderbird)
• bug 1103165 Clipped image layer

Stability

• green

QE

• desktop: new issues reported by softvision, lizzard reviewing
• mobile: good to sign off

RelMan

• Not ready yet but getting closer.

Schedule Update

• 34 RC gtb was yesterday
• Need an update from legal/product about search codes before we can spin our final build
• 34.0.5 will spin once we have Yahoo codes
• throttling overview
  • en-US: 2% for 3 days, 1% for 2 days
  • other locales: 25% for 24 hours as per usual
• don't have details for Monday release day yet

Stability

Nightly

• Crash rates going down, not sure how much due to fixes and how much due to e10s off
• bug 1104160 (CPOWTimer::~CPOWTimer) is #1 by far
• still some D3D HandleError crashes to be figured out (bug 1104008 et al.)

Aurora / Dev Edition

• nothing to report, numbers look good.

Beta

• Numbers still look good!
• bug 1053999 (JS_TransplantObject) looks fixed in b11 :) *cheer*

Release

• Also still looking good.

Mobile

• bug 1049138 (VisitNextEdgeBetweenRect) high on both Beta and Aurora
• bug 1062758 (nsObserverService::RemoveObserver, guest mode on Lollipop) high on Beta

RelEng

• Spiffy new UI for balrog - https://aus4-admin.mozilla.org/ui
• RC to beta
• which RC are we pushing to beta? 34.0 first. (For X days. 3?) if we have time, then 34.0.5.

User Advocacy

• No major updates
• Desktop
  • Tyler sent out the final 33 Desktop report this week
  • UA to have 2 sessions in portland work week:
    • Desktop Telemetry Dashboard - a dashboard for viewing changes in Firefox usage for 1 or 2 arbitrary weeks/versions for a given channel/version/OS
    • Desktop Heartbeat - a system to universally survey Firefox users in-browser for a less biased and broader sentiment/feedback system.
• Mobile
  • Rob investigating Android L/Nexus 5 issues

Workweek

• QA sessions: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QA-Breakout-Sessions-PDX

Roundtable

• (lmandel) Winston told me that he'll send me a marketing update by EOD today