Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-01-08

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am 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, RyanVM, Sebastian, philipp, jcristau, Tom, ritu, dveditz, thomas, overholt,tania

Schedule Update

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

• 64.0.2 dot release gtb (Desktop & Fennec) today

• 65.0b9 live across all channels
• 65.0b10 gtb Thursday (Desktop & DevEdition)

• Merge day nightly 66 soft freeze = Jan 21 (MLK holiday in US)

Off-train releases

Current Shield studies: https://strategy-and-insights.mozilla.com/shield-studies/index.html

Stability

• Investigating overall Linux trend in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515439

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 5.64, Thursday 5.97

• Top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517415 is now resolved fixed
• Nightly crash triage: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q1

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 1.51, Thursday 1.59

[65.0b8]

• browser crashes with chinese sogou ime: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512165 - 1.6% of browser crashes
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515459 - 0.7% of browser crashes
  • pinged to move forward with sec approval

Release

firefox release summary score: 1.84, Thursday 1.92

• Overall Rate looks good. Top 20 crashes are all known
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517482 still fairly high, but philipp notes it is a likely signature shift.

Mobile

• Crash rate is calculated based on usage hours (the time Firefox is actively used).
• Usage hours will be significantly lower on Fennec than on desktop Firefox, so we can't compare mobile rates to desktop rates.

• Release

fennec release summary score: 27.44, Thursday 27.98

• • #4 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471692 - work still ongoing
  • Nothing else new in the top 20

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 34.07, Thursday 34.42

• • High ANR rate in Beta - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518285. Should be addressed by another fix
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1454639 continues to be the top crash in the betas, but we haven't yet been able to repro the issue.
  • #5 overall https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1464902.

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 46.97, Thursday 42.85

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411330 had a small spike, but only 2 installs
  • JS regression from 1 day ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518075 is resolved fixed

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx64 post-mortem on 15-Jan: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/64-0-Post-Mortem