Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2017-11-16

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, jcristau, adrianSV, ritu, bsurd, cornel, Julia, elan, RyanVM, tomgrab, Cristian, asimonca, petruta, oanah,carmenf, Timea, avaida, roxana, jorge, cmuresan

Previous Actions

Schedule Update

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

• 57.0
  • looking great overall so far
  • fennec rollout bumped to 25% wednesday, bumped to 99% today
  • desktop should be bumped to 100% today as well
  • video issue with some amd gpus and older drivers, plan to workaround by disabling gpu process for affected users, which we can do remotely (yay blocklists) - bug 1417442

• 58.0b
  • deved b2 canceled due to updater issue
  • catlee is following up with SV to figure out next steps (this might have affected nightly for ~3 weeks)
  • desktop 58.0b3 had to get a build2 for last minute containers issue, then CDN issues prevented us from shipping that and we had to build 58.0b4 instead
  • today's build is cancelled (not much to uplift, everyone's in recovery mode from 57 launch), 58.0b5 gtb on monday
  • 58.0b3 fennec rolled out at 10%, further rollout will block on bug 1413500
  • tl;dr: 58 is not in a happy place quite yet

Add-ons

Shield studies

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

Stability

Nightly

awsy rate: 1.77 (browser 0.8, content 0.98)

[marcia]

• Startup crash rate seems quite high on https://www.arewestableyet.com/dashboard/
• New bugs filed today
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417897
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417599 Nightly only so far that affects all versions of Mac

Beta

awsy rate: 0.76 (browser 0.43, content 0.33)

[philipp] 58.0b4

• mozilla::layers::ImageBridgeChild::InitForContent: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400637 - 52.4% of content crashes
  • probably due to third-party software behaving badly with increased sandboxing level
• <T>::operator() | mozilla::detail::RunnableFunction<T>::Run: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411685 - 10% of browser crashes
• mozilla::SandboxBroker::SetSecurityLevelForContentProcess: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1352192 - 5.2% of browser crashes
  • crash with external sandboxie tool

Release

awsy rate: 0.82 (browser 0.53, content 0.29)

[phliipp] 57.0

• AsyncShutdownTimeout in EnvironmentAddonBuilder: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1381633 - 4.8% of browser crashes
  • comment in the bug indicate that this might only happen once per profile, but since it's the top signature currently perhaps it should be looked into again
• Crash in mozilla::ipc::MessageChannel::CommonThreadOpenInit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389759 - 1.9% of browser crashes
  • many user comments; they say it's a repeated crash at startup
• tab crashes on 2011 macbooks on google maps: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413269 - >30% of osx content crashes

Mobile

awsy rate: release 0.58 - beta 0.89 - nightly 2.84

• Nightly
  • Nightly continues to be crashy due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413500

• Beta
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413500 also at the top of B3 stats.

• Release
  • Not much to report yet until after we increase the release population.
  • Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417941. New bug in 57 that needs a better component.

Performance (Thu)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Release

QE

[Cornel]

• GREEN: RC 57.0-build4 signed-off, report: https://goo.gl/YgA94E
• Update and WNP testing for 57, report: https://goo.gl/s21EZU
• GREEN: Onboarding without experiments (Fx57), report: https://goo.gl/re58pE

Nightly

• [Adrian] Documentation for the new Fx59 features - PI prioritization still in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

[Bogdan] [pi-request] ‘Update failures on 58’ is currently under investigation (only reproducible for now in SV environment).

Beta

[Cornel]

• GREEN: 58.0b3-build2 signed-off, report: report: https://goo.gl/ySfFZh

Action items

Mobile

• YAY for Fennec 57 -
  • we are watching closely the feedback ( saw others on it too like Andreas bovens and Kevin)

• Fennec 58 Beta 3 Signed off without major issues
• 57 RC build 3 signed off

• Nightly pre-check BFT's part I Signed off

https://Bugzil.la/1417371 [Activity Stream] - Pocket/Highlights open menu animation is restricted https://Bugzil.la/1417361 [Activity Stream] - Tablet menu is not opened correctly

• Default Search Changes verified ( together with Mike K)
• Gathering features on 59

Performance

RelEng

Marketing/Communications

User Advocacy

Roundtable

• [Ryan] Fx59 merge timing and communication
  • Relman team on point for 59 milestones doc, how best to communicate soft code freeze to all of engg
  • Soft Code Freeze for 59 starts week of Jan 8th
• [Adrian] (57) Confirmed wiht :matt_g that the telemetry numbers reported for the Unified Search studies (targeting new users) are on par with the new users count

Special Topics

• Dec 4th, gtb 58.0b8 freeze date for landing uplifts in beta 58 for work related to new features

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

Nov 28 - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/57-0-Post-Mortem

Sign Off (Thurs prior to GA Release)

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