Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-08-29

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

• marcia, RyanVM, lizzard,drus,vlucaci, sdeiac, dcicas, Aryx, bmaris, ajoltan, philipp, obotisan, lapahidean, adrian_sv, asoncutean, sflorean ,taniappop, mhentges

Schedule Update

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

• Planning to go live with 69.0 RC1!

• Fennec 68.1 RC gtb today

• No Desktop 68.1esr RC respin expected

• 60.9esr gtb today?
  • missing a patch

• DevEdition 70.0b2 gtb today

• Monday is a U.S. and Canadian holiday. Julien will cover for relman, for releng, Callek will also be working, then later monday, Nthomas

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• MC is still showing a spike in macOS crashes for both beta and nightly: https://missioncontrol.telemetry.mozilla.org/#/?channel=beta
• FYI Apple pushed out another beta release for macOS 10.15 yesterday, (19A546d)

Nightly

firefox nightly summary score: 6.49, Tuesday 6.61

• Filed macOS crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577507
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1416785 zoomed into the #3 spot. Perhaps something automated generated the crashes, as all have no install time
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573731 is still visible in crash stats, although it appears it is a crash we will live with for the moment
• Boris landed a fix for a top Service workers crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575204
• #8 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503787 was discussed in triage. ni added to see if it is really a service workers issue

Beta

firefox beta summary score: 3.87, Tuesday 3.96

• Still relatively early for 70.0b1 crashes: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&version=70.0b1&process_type=any

[69.0rc]

• high share of [@OOM | small] crashes in 69: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575950
• crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetD2D1::CreateBrushForPattern: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576372 - 0.8% of content crashes
  • on the radar for a ridealong in a potential dot-release

Release

firefox release summary score: 2.07, Tuesday 2.08

• Nothing specific to call out for release.

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.

Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 82.39, Tuesday 82.55

• Nothing specific to call out for nightly

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 56.34, Tuesday 56.28

• Nothing specific to call out for beta

Release

fennec release summary score: 19.51, Tuesday 19.50

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573479 seems to be increased in volume recently
• top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525290 is now also reproducible

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553135 seems to be fixed in Fennec, but still has crashes in the latest Fenix release ending in 0043

QA

[Bogdan]

• ESR 60.9.0 validation using builds from treeherder - In progress

Nightly

[Ovidiu]

* Nightly regression - still in progress - ETA tomorrow EOD

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Action items

Mobile Stability

[Stefan]

• Sign Off Firefox Beta 68.1b8 build 1 - with status GREEN
• Sign Off WebRTC testing for Firefox Nightly 70 - Status GREEN [mobile &desktop]

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)