Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-10-20

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

pascal, thomas, jr, Aryx, philipp, RyanVM,taniam, jcristau

Schedule Update

• Firefox 82 release @25%
• Firefox ESR 78.4 @100%
• Beta 83.0b1 release @25%, Deved 83.0b1 release @100%

• fenix 81.1.5 at full rollout
• fenix 82.1.0 at 5%

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.72, crash incidence: 1.96%, mc1 summary score:

• Lots of libmozsandbox.so content process crashes?
  • Not likely our bug (single install, non-official channel)

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 1.66, crash incidence: 1.50%, mc1 summary score:

[83.0b]

• Crash in [@ RtlAcquireSRWLockExclusive | mozilla::ipc::MessageChannel::NotifyImpendingShutdown]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670557
• Startup Crash in [@ mozilla::intl::LocaleService::GetAppLocalesAsLangTags]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667613

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.38, crash incidence: 0.87%, mc1 summary score:

[82.0] tbd

• Linux Mint Firefox builds (not ours) losing search engines under some conditions: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1672164
  • Linux Mint people seem aware (question asked in their forum)
  • intention to reach out from Mozilla
  • affected user population ???

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/8754

QA

Nightly

• PI request deadline: this Friday, Oct 23
  • have a few carryovers, connecting with EPMs to find out if those are still planned for 84

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• no concerns from QA's end at the moment, testing in beta is to be started

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 83 has 1 challenged and 1 at risk feature
  • [challenged] Modernized Print UI, Phase 2 will be landing code early in the beta cycle to support this work riding the trains
  • [at risk] Account Ecosystem Telemetry Ping is now considered at risk for Fx83 as the work was not completed before the nightyl soft code freeze. Reviewing options for shipping.
  • Previously challenged items around Search are now considered ON TRACK for riding the trains!
• Building the Firefox 84 feature list. Will have more to share next week.

SUMO Report

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669753 - new print ui experiment
• Sumo mitigation: tracking print UI mentions post release.
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653908 - crash in [@ PLDHashTable::Add | nsBaseHashtable<T>::Put | Parser::Parse]
  • Sumo mitigation: Is the crash above expected to be user affecting in 82 release? If so we can look to track users affected on support forum.
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664614 is the new signature in 82 for this crash
    • Are there any bugs support should be tracking for Fenix in 82 release?

Roundtable & Special Topics

• [Tania] release post mortem for Fx81/project shirley
  • we have an eng retrospective scheduled next Monday
  • Ryan to follow-up with jchaupitre
• [Thomas] Do we have an idea who the REO will be for Fx84?
  • Ryan to follow-up with jwalker on this
• [Thomas] Extended train cycle for end of year holidays. See Ryan's email sent to Release-Drivers

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)