Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2015-10-01

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• 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: ReleaseCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

lmandel, sylvestre, lizzard, kairo, jorge, philipp, frios, roland, ritu, mschmidt

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

• 41.0.1 - Desktop
  • Live
  • Updated proposed only to 41.0 users until we have more information
  • Once it is OK (tomorrow?), updates will be proposed to all users

• 42.0 b3 gtb soon - Desktop only

Add-ons

• https://bugzil.la/1206889 - Blocklist flash 18.0.0.232 is now live.

Stability

Aurora / Dev Edition

• Overall rate: 3.8 (target: <1.5) - browser: 1.1, content: 2.7
• bug 1208779 (a11y::Accessible::IsProxy) is 3.7% of browser crashes, landed on m-c (i needinfoed the developer just now - liz)
• bug 1209132 (js::jit::IonCompile) is >13% of content crashes, fix landed on m-a on 9/29
• js::jit::AssemblerX86Shared::jmpSrc is 11% of content crashes, may need a bug filed if it persists in builds from today or later (no crashes yet with today's build and barely any yesterday so bug 1209132 may fix it)

Beta

• Overall rate: 1.1 (slightly worse than on Tuesday)
• bug 1208071 (layers::PImageBridgeChild::Write) - new in 42 @ 3% of 42.0b2 data - uplift request pending - Approved, not sure it will be in b3 (syl)
• bug 1149318 (SkFontMgr_DirectWrite) - rising sharply in 42, #1 Top Crash Score - is 1.5%, patch landed for b3
• bug 1208234 (gfx::SourceSurfaceD2DTarget::GetDataSurface) - new in 42 @ 0.7%
• bug 1207993 (Intel gfx, layers::DataTextureSourceD3D11::Update) - rising in 42 compared to 41, now @ 0.6%
• bug 1209724 (layers::FlushAllImagesSync) - new in 42 @ 0.4% - uplift request pending
• bug 1158189 (HTTP shutdownhang, 3%), bug 1182197 (Promise Settle, 2.2%) unchanged

Release

• Overall rate: 0.9 (downwards trend)
• No new concerns for 41.0.1, the fixed startup and GL issues do not show up in stats
• bug 1198884 (Ubuntu Gstreamer-1.0), bug 1189940 (Win10 NVidia) unchanged

Mobile

• still 1207642 (random hex crashes) as main concern in 41 and newer channels

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

• Reports from affected users say that 41.0.1 fixes the hang/freeze issue with Flash 19! \o/

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

No updates

Roundtable

• Note: Starting in 44, Win XP sp2 users will only be able to download Firefox 43 and then update from there. Service Pack 2 connections aren't secure by upcoming standards (deprecating SHA-1 )
  • Do we need to hardcode this rule on moz.org in order to serve the correct download?
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OAmJmTkKNH-QYYkViiBCGpvYCECLVVK66Ycp9THPiBs/edit#heading=h.wmyz78v2r0fb
  • Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1079858

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

• 43:
  • MLS - Mozilla Location Service
  • Search Suggestions (Unified Autocomplete)
  • Replace Android native Firefox Accounts implementation with web based implementation
  • Expect some changes to certificate warning UI

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/41-0-Post-Mortem
  • This is next Tuesday!

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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