Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-03-31

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

• ioanachiorean, teovermesa, petruta, flaviu, liz, kmoir, calixte, Bogdan, Pike, Cornel, jorge, blassey, ryanvm, lmandel, philipp, ritu, MihaiB

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https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/channel-meeting

• potential 45.0.2
  • Bug 1254980 - Copy-pasting selected HTML from Firefox to a new Thunderbird message (using TB 38) or to BlueGriffon is broken as of Firefox 45
  • Bug 1257861 - Firefox 45 fails to send Cookie header with XHR post requests done from a web worker when third-party cookies are blocked
  • Bug 1260961 - Legitimate CORS requests are blocked by Firefox 45.0.1
  • Bug 1258562 - Crash in dom::MediaSource::Duration - top crash
  • Bug 1256442 - Ship 1.1.x of the Loop system add-on to the release population
  • Bug 1258650 - Yahoo finance chart comparison "overlays" not displayed properly because of bad interaction with scaled clip and mask combo
  • Bug 1259482 - Product image not changing upon selection in Woocommerce/Wordpress

• beta 6 not released
  • Multiple betas skipped this cycle. May want to start looking at schedule changes in advance in case we decide to postpone Fx46 shipping.

Add-ons

• Bug 1259458 - Upcoming Java plugin block

Stability

Aurora

crash rate: 2.4 (red) - browser 1.03, content 1.37 Spikes:

• Always a lot of crashes due to EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW
• they're addressed in bug 1259699 which is fixed in mozilla-central

Beta

crash rate: 1.28 (red) - browser 1.1, content 0.17 Spikes:

• Bug 1243326 - hang | WaitForSingleObjectEx | WaitForSingleObject | npjp2.dll@0xb966 (crash from java plugin)
  • crash number rose by ~100%
  • #4 in plugin topcrash
  • like in 45.0.1, the spike occurred the 2016-03-28
• Bug 1124532 - npswf32_16_0_0_228.dll@0x35acbd (crash from Shockwave Flash plugin)
  • rose by ~800% (from 13 to 122 crashes)
  • the spike occurred the 2016-03-29
  • #7 in plugin topcrash
• Bug 1158189 - shutdownhang | WaitForSingleObjectEx | WaitForSingleObject | PR_WaitCondVar | nsThread::ProcessNextEvent | NS_ProcessNextEvent | mozilla::net::nsHttpConnectionMgr::Shutdown
  • #2 in topcrash
  • rose by ~50% between 2016-03-27 and 2016-03-30

Release

crash rate: 1.04 (yellow)

Spikes:

• Bug 1243326 - hang | WaitForSingleObjectEx | WaitForSingleObject | npjp2.dll@0xb966 (crash from java plugin)
  • crash number rose by ~100%
  • #5 in plugin topcrash

Mobile

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

Nightly

• [mobile][ioana] - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/48#Features_Status some progress made for some features

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [Cornel] Mid-aurora feature sign offs were completed on Monday.
• [Bogdan] per-monitorDPI feature - Waiting for devs to fix issues that we reported during mid-Aurora signoff.
• [mobile][ioana] https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/47#Features_Status - we will try to give tomorrow our first mid-aurora signoff for features.

Beta

• [Cornel] 46.0b6-build1 was successfully signed off even if it's now decided to skip it due to the infrastructure issues.
• [Cornel] Completed the Stub installers and migration testing.
• [Cornel] e10s testing on 46 is almost completed (about 95%) - looking good, no e10s related issues were found this far.
• [Cornel] gtk3 testing is in progress; several issues were found and are under investigation - http://tinyurl.com/jykh6o6.
• [Cornel] WebRTC testing will be performed next week.
• [Cornel] 46 Beta 7 Testday tomorrow - http://tinyurl.com/hpz4wgt. - focus on APZ and Image Support
• [Paul] Started testing the Pocket System Add-on on 46b6
• [Petruta] APZ - Currently working on verifying fixes on 46 and 47; The Engineering QA team may run a set of tests on Aurora 47 before the merge to beta
• [mobile][ioana] We signed off 46 Beta 6 but as we all know was not released https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/46/Beta/6

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [RyanVM] SV e10s testing priorities
  • We could run a more limited set of tests for beta 47 e10s testing.
  • Ryan's low end laptop plan. XP too?

• Brad is suggesting we do APZ testing on Fx47

Tracked bugs with no owners! Let's triage. (For next tuesday)

• Beta: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?o5=equals&f1=cf_tracking_firefox46&o3=equals&list_id=12936993&v3=affected&columnlist=product%2Ccomponent%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Cchangeddate%2Ccf_tracking_firefox46%2Ccf_tracking_firefox45%2Ccf_tracking_firefox_esr38%2Ccf_tracking_firefox_relnote%2Cop_sys%2Cpriority%2Ctarget_milestone%2Cstatus_whiteboard%2Cbug_severity&o1=equals&j2=OR&emailtype1=substring&query_based_on=tracking_firefox46%2B&v5=%3F&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&f3=cf_status_firefox46&f2=OP&f5=cf_status_firefox46&email1=nobody%40mozilla.org&v1=%2B&known_name=tracking_firefox46%2B

• Aurora: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?o5=equals&f1=cf_tracking_firefox47&o3=equals&list_id=12936993&v3=affected&columnlist=product%2Ccomponent%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Cchangeddate%2Ccf_tracking_firefox46%2Ccf_tracking_firefox45%2Ccf_tracking_firefox_esr38%2Ccf_tracking_firefox_relnote%2Cop_sys%2Cpriority%2Ctarget_milestone%2Cstatus_whiteboard%2Cbug_severity&o1=equals&j2=OR&emailtype1=substring&query_based_on=tracking_firefox46%2B&v5=%3F&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&f3=cf_status_firefox46&f2=OP&f5=cf_status_firefox46&email1=nobody%40mozilla.org&v1=%2B&known_name=tracking_firefox46%2B

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

• Fx47 (when it goes to Beta)
  • An experiment add-on in bug 1248813 for Flash Block experiment, starts on 47.0b1

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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