Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-07-02

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details Zoom Meeting ID: 266 532 573 https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/266532573 +17207072699,,266532573# US Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

• lizzard, Thomas, Julien, Tom P, Tom G, Sebastian, Marcia, Pascal, Ryan, dveditz, Andrew,tania

Schedule Update

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

• 68 RC1 built and pushed out to the beta channel
  • we will definitely have a RC2, tracking uplifts at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jtNuLGugHVgZTKR3NXQGngA_EjzSGxpRBzW-DvNK3EI/edit?pli=1#gid=0
    • Expected no later than Thursday
• fennec 68 rc1 at 5% of release

• ESR 60.8 possibly waiting on a patch
• ESR 68.0 waiting on a couple feature disabling patches

• DevEd 69.0b1 shipped @ 100%
• 70 - prepping the milestones timeline, should be ready later today

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.31, Thursday 6.59

• Core | A/V playback spike - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562395
• macOS 10.15 crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556846 still under investigation
• Small volume Core | IPC regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562616
• Small volume WebVR crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562679
• Nightly crash triage https://wiki.mozilla.org/NightlyCrashTriage/2019Q3

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 2.67, Thursday 2.76

• macOS 10.15 widevine crashes continue to be visible on beta https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556835
• many JS crashes dominate the top landscape

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.07, Thursday 2.11

• Nothing significant to call out regarding 67.0.4

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: 10.34, Thursday 10.35

• • #5 overall top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507463 is specific to Motorolas running API 26. Seen on 68 as well, but in fairly low volume

• Beta

fennec beta summary score: 59.92, Thursday 60.17

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551205 is our top crash and seems to be stalled.
    • not stalled; holidays
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 is visible in 68. Hard to tell where it will go when we release

• • [julien] do we know if the ANR fix was effective?
    • action item for marcia to check GPS
      • See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556083#c25

• Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 89.48, Thursday 90.94

• • MC is showing a spike on 7-1: https://missioncontrol.telemetry.mozilla.org/#/nightly/android/main_crashes
  • Nothing else specific to call out

• Fenix/Firefox Preview
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557449 is the top crash in the MVP. There as a fix in nightly that didn't make it in
    • Over 7K crashes
  • Fenix team is not looking at Socorro (cpeterson sometimes looks). If you see crashes that affect both Fennec and Fenix, please add the [geckoview] whiteboard

tag so that they can be triaged.

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• US holiday thursday

Special Topics

Aurora/Beta Feature Review

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• (liz) Postmortem/retrospective for chemspills from the Whistler work week - today at 11am

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lhGq1H-ErCZBLgS3UPTzT60T0BjIlPNvEydY676YPQo/edit