Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2019-12-19

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, abodea,drus, lapahidean, ebalazs, tbabos, ajoltan, RyanVM, jcristau, sdeiac, sflorean, bmaris, Ritu,tzsoldos,tania, obotisan

Schedule Update

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

• 72.0b8 is on beta
• 72.0b9 should ship tomorrow
• 2 builds left next week before RC

• no news on the 71 front = good news

Release metrics

Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10VEf3__QCWDb4EGom-W6qGPlu71R_fDQiTCLc-7Sggo/edit#gid=701685118

• Stability
• Performance
• Security
• Functionality

Off-train releases

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

Stability

Nightly

Today Crash Rate overall 1.96 Crash Incidence overall 2.37%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.96 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 2.0 Crash Incidence overall 2.22%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.78

• Code added to diagnose the issue in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603714
• Panning and Zooming regression https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604956 identified and now fixed
• New small volume Core Graphics crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604800

Beta

Today Crash Rate overall 1.69 Crash Incidence overall 1.23%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.42 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.72 Crash Incidence overall 1.40%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.61

• Core Graphics crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600491 was fixed in nightly and uplifted to beta
• Watching https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601703. Currently has a ni. Last beta had 39 crashes

Release

Today Crash Rate overall 1.43 Crash Incidence overall 1.02%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.02 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.45 Crash Incidence overall 1.02%, Mission Control v1 rate 3.17

• Awaiting review on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443544. An addon update has caused a spike on release
• Nothing else to highlight today

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: 46.15, Tuesday 46.28

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527243 continues to be the top overall crash on nightly
• Core Graphics crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532456 is #2 overall.
  • An emulator is the top overall crashing device, but there are other devices crashing as well

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 47.43, Tuesday 47.53

• Nothing specific to highlight for beta

Release

fennec release summary score: 16.74, Tuesday 16.78

• Nothing specific to highlight for 68.3.0

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• No data to report from Socorro for 3.0.1 due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604182
• There are some new crashes in GPS in 3.0.1 version. Will have to cross check github to see if they are on file

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[Bogdan]

• IN PROGRESS:
  • Fx72 Pre-release feature status reports (signoffs planned for 24th Dec)
  • AntiVirus testing (report planned for 20th Dec)
  • Regression testing (report planned for 20th Dec)

Action items

Mobile Stability

[Sorina]

• Sign-off Firefox Beta 68.4b2 build 1 - Status Green
• Sign-off Firefox Preview RC 3.0.1-rc - Status Green
• Sign-off WebRTC on Nightly 73 - Status Green (desktop and mobile teams)

SUMO Report / User Advocacy

Roundtable

• Reminder that there will be no Channel meetings next week - both Tuesday and Thursday meetings are cancelled
  • Week after? Dec 31st and Jan 2nd?
  • Julien wants to keep those meetings since it is RC week.
• irc.mozilla.org being replaced by Matrix in January - https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620

Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 71 postponed to Jan 7, 10AM PST, https://pad.mozilla.org/p/firefox71-postmortem