Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2016-08-18

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/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: ReleaseCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

• Callek, lizzard, sylvestre, lmandel, florin, andrei, alexsimonca, ciprian, cornel, cristian, elan, ioana, mihaiboldan, mihaipop, paul, petruta, philipp, ritu, ryanvm, sorina, teodora, marcia, Andrew

Schedule Update

• 48.0.1 - Desktop only!
  • build 2 started last night
  • Otherwise, planning to publish 48.0.1 tomorrow to 100% of the general population (which will increase the number of e10s users automatically)
  • Will do a second dot release for e10s if necessary
• Current e10s rate: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/972#1659

• 49.0b5 desktop build will start thurs.

12*300

• (Callek) OpenH264 v1.6 shipped to *DESKTOP* ESR/release Wednesday.

 ** Delayed for Android on release (and esr incase someone built it locally) -- pending more complete testing from Maire's team

Stability

A Modest Dashboard Collection beta crash-stats: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=49.0b more beta data: https://health.graphics/crashes/beta https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/beta-crash-rates and more: https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/crash-report-tools/longtermgraph/?fxbeta e10s/non crash rate: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/crashes/office-dashboard.html

Aurora

[marcia]

• Excluding a flash crash, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051567 is the top crash on 50 and #4 on 51. Although the bug mentions Windows crashes, all the crashes in that signature are Mac

Beta

[philipp] 49.0b4:

• big crash spike with certain AMD cpus (mozilla::DisplayListClipState::AutoSaveRestore::AutoSaveRestore https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294963 ) is gone
• apparently new intel cpu specific crash pattern (signatures starting with arena_dalloc_small...) - about 6% of the overall browser crash volume : https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/search/?product=Firefox&process_type=browser&cpu_info=%5EGenuineIntel%20family%206%20model%2061%20stepping&version=49.0b4&_sort=-date&_facets=signature&_facets=user_comments&_facets=version&_facets=adapter_vendor_id&_facets=build_id&_facets=platform_pretty_version&_facets=install_time&_facets=cpu_info&_columns=date&_columns=signature&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform#facet-signature

Release

browser crash rate: 0.95 (orange), content: 0.00

no news, waiting for 48.0.1 :-)

Nightly

• [marcia]
• Overall, crash rate is a bit high due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296041
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296041 - new crash - patch already attached to the bug
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296276 - new Media crash
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292923 - new crashes in igd10umd32.dll under investigation

Mobile

• [marcia] New crash on 48 in Open Graphics: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296298
• Thanks Marcia!

llvm-toolchain-snapshot_4.0~svn279045

Performance (Thu)

READ ONLY raw notes (with links to graphs, etc.) - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/vtNqXxJuTY

Aurora / Dev Edition

   * pending bugs:
       * win7 canvasmark: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287707 (fix in progress)
       * linux64 tabpaint: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287707 (r?)
       * winxp cart: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289321 (ni? - thanks for marking this a blocker)

   * e10s vs non-e10s:
     * kraken - osx10 getting slightly worse than non-e10s  (seen a few weeks ago: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/5hVO4pOYIA#lineNumber=56 )
     * tart - win8 getting slightly worse than non-e10s (TODO: figure out the difference)

Beta

• no pending bugs to resolve- all changes are acknowledged
• e10s vs non-e10s

  * kraken - linux64/osx10 getting slightly worse than non-e10s  (seen a few weeks ago: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/5hVO4pOYIA#lineNumber=50 )
  * tart - win8/winxp getting slightly worse than non-e10s (TODO: figure out the difference)

Release health

Beta: 1 blocking, 13 new, 81carryover Aurora: 3 blocking, 60 new, 122 carryover

• Triage day changing to Wed 11am PT, async triage still happening as well

QE

• [desktop] [Andrei] 48.0.1 (build3) signed off, with no blocking issues.

Mobile

• Fennec 49 Beta 4 signed off without major issues - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/49/Beta/4

RelEng

(callek) * There was a planned WNP for zh-TW for beta5, driven by mkaply's group. -- Testing with it with beta4 reminded us we can't show a WNP without a Gecko Milestone bump. -- We'll still likely need a WNP for that locale for 48.x-->49.0

Liz will talk with mkaply. 
** Bug 1292637

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

• Let's try this next week

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• post mortem still postponed till we know more about e10s. Erin will also run a postmortem.