Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-10-17

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: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

Attendees

marcia, dveditz, jcristau, Tom, lizzard, philipp, nicole, RyanVM, elan, ritu, callek, catlee, kmoir

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

Current releases dashboard: https://mozilla.github.io/delivery-dashboard

* 57.0b9 signed off, b10 gtb Thurs
* 57 fennec signed off, will push later today
* Nightly respin for dirty profile issue

• 57 worry items
  • ~14 blocking bugs - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=blocking-57&list_id=13828002#
  • Uplift requests are starting to slow down
  • Feature status mostly green

• 58 Nightly, Beta milestones doc in progress
  • 11/1 Feature Go/NoGo date
  • 11/2 start of merge
  • 11/10 Nightly code freeze

• 56 - No clear dot release driver yet. Some worrying crashes/issues that we should fix in 57

Add-ons

Shield studies

• FYI: Shield studies in flight. https://gregglind.github.io/x-shield-inflight-dashboard

Here is a Trello boarding to track Shield studies: https://trello.com/b/maMI2Fn6/shield

Stability

[marcia}

• Investigation still ongoing in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407631 - Crash reporter appears to submit two crash reports per crash

Nightly

awsy rate: 2.03 (browser 0.96, content 1.07) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 5.02 (week before: 5.73, this time last cycle: 3.53)

[marcia]

• Nightly rate has recovered nicely from the spike last week
• Top browser crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407930 is now resolved fixed
• New crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409216 - cubeb mac crash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409400 is a dupe of another crash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408638 - new accessibility bug that is resolved fixed
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q4 has the most up to date information on nightly triage

Beta

awsy rate: 0.80 (browser 0.46, content 0.34) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 2.44 (week before: 3.47, this time last cycle: 5.75)

[marcia]

• New #5 top browser crash in Beta 8: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409400 - dupe of another signature. We need to add a signature to the skip list.

[philipp] 57.0b8

• AsyncShutdownTimeout in sanitize.js: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404105 - 5% of browser crashes
  • regressing in 56, has a fix on nightly
• Crash in NewFunctionClone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384544 - 2% of browser crashes
  • regressing since 55
• Startup crashes in mozJSComponentLoader::GetSharedGlobal & nsZipArchive::GetItem - 1.7% of browser crashes
• Crash in js::InterpreterFrame::callee: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409179 - 0.8% of browser crashes
  • regressing since 57.0b6 & newly filed and needing investigation
• Crashes in pages_commit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395805 - 2% of content crashes
  • regressing in 57
• Stylo content crash panic in rand::weak_rng: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409444 - 2% of content crashes
  • regressing since 57.0b6 & newly filed and needing investigation

Release

awsy rate: 0.82 (browser 0.58, content 0.24) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 3.40 (week before: 2.91, this time last cycle: 4.13)

[marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405290 has moved up to #2 top crash, and is rising. Affects 57/58 as well.
  • 12 days ago there was a ni request that has not been answered as to whether we can do anything for 57 in regard to these crashes
  • many user comments.... it's noticeable

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.58, beta 0.88, nightly 1.67

[marcia]

• Nightly
  • Nightly top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407915 is now fixed

• Beta
  • Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340959. Telemetry shows this is occurring with phones that have less memory
  • Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760394 signatures at both #2 and #4. Not much we can do about this crash.

• Release
  • See beta comments above. The 56 release landscape is about the same.

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

• [Tom] Current 57 feature status: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e840tyKTmhBdlYxtpWsGnyVXgyKVSJxxv9p98mMDqEU

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 56 post-mortem - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/56-0-Post-Mortem
  • Pushed to 10/17

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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