Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-10-31

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: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Attendees

marcia, Ritu, lizzard, jlund, philipp, elan, nicole, milan, RyanVM, dveditz, Tom

Schedule Update

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

• 56.0.2 released last week. Crash rate OK (fewer OOM|small crashes, YouTube crash eliminated)

• 57 b13 pushed today, b14 gtb Thursday (last Desktop, DevEd build)
  • Need to review sign offs that are YELLOW
  • Putting together a list of studies/exp/staged rollout post 57 go live
  • Need sign off and review of 57.0 update rules
  • WNP plans TBD - next meeting Wed Nov 1st

• 58 Start of Merge - Nov 2nd Thursday

Shield studies

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

Stability

no adi based rates generated today on crash-stats or awsy

Nightly

awsy rate: 1.91 (browser 0.91, content 1.00) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 4.31 (week before: 3.61, this time last cycle: 11.43)

[marcia]

• Nightly crash triage has been relatively quiet: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2017Q4
• Today's nightly build is blocked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413204

Beta

awsy rate: 0.97 (browser 0.57, content 0.40) telemetry (m+c-s) from sunday: 2.79 (week before: 2.00, this time last cycle: 5.35)

[philipp] 57.0b12

• Crash in MessageBuilder::WriteElement: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412635 - 18.5% of browser crashes
  • fixed on m-c, uplift approval pending
  • We don't know whether the fix has helped in Nightly, let's talk with engineering if backing out https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1383131#c6 is a better idea
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1331209 - 2.5% of browser crashes
• a couple of probably build-specific signatures with known buggy/crashy intel processors spiking up in b12: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378100 & https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404050

Release

awsy rate: 0.95 (browser 0.65, content 0.30)

[marcia]

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405290 is the top crash on 56.0.2
• Filed new crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413224. Currently #16 top crash, and needs to be moved out of General

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.65, beta 0.88, nightly 1.48

• Nightly
  • Spike in crashes due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412973

• Beta
  • Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413242. Appears to be a regression introduced in 56
  • #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411267 seems stalled.

• Release
  • Nothing of note

QE

[Tom]

• Fx57 "Accessibility indicator" feature is red status, because it was just included in 57. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e840tyKTmhBdlYxtpWsGnyVXgyKVSJxxv9p98mMDqEU/edit?userstoinvite=tmnifex@gmail.com&ts=59ea2b44&actionButton=1#heading=h.kn5tgxvz509j
  • Pref'd off in 57 (Bug 1411591)
  • SHIELD study planned for release 57, these should be blocked on the RED QA sign off

Roundtable

• Softvision email RE: upcoming holidays affecting the 58 beta cycle
  • Relman will follow up
  • DVeditz asked about our plans for the week of Austin work week as well