Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2020-01-09

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 8am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

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

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Attendees

marcia, RyanVM, cfogel, Pascal, Aryx, mlobontiuroman, cionce, bmaris, sflorean, drus, lapahidean, ebalazs, philipp, tbabos, sdeiac, rbologa, tmaity, rpopovici, obotisan, mberlinger, ccomorasu, Tom, asoncutean, dcicas, cfat, csasca,

Schedule Update

• 72.0.1, 73.0b2, 68.4.1esr, Fennec 68.4.1, Fenix 3.0.2, etc etc etc shipped @ 100% yesterday

[bmaris]

• 24 January - SV RO holiday
  • Firefox 73.0b9 scheduled the same day
  • [ryan] we'll ship it and keep our fingers crossed

Release metrics

Report on release criteria metrics from DRIs

• Stability
• Performance
• Security
• Functionality

Off-train releases

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

Stability

• Both Release and Beta don't yet have enough adoption to report valid data for Mission Control v2

Nightly

Today Crash Rate overall 1.88 Crash Incidence overall 1.35%, Mission Control v1 rate 8.12 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.71 Crash Incidence overall 1.85%, Mission Control v1 rate 5.34

• #3 top crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603976 has some traction
• macOS touch bar crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607140 is resolved fixed
• Several zero installation crashes on Windows

Beta

Crash Rate overall Crash Incidence overall %, Mission Control v1 rate 15.86 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.53 Crash Incidence overall 1.18%, Mission Control v1 rate 4.2

[73.0b2] stability status "challenged"

• New Printing crash is quite high in b2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607671 - 33% of all browser crashes
  • aiming to backout regressing patch before 73.0b3 build today
• Storage Crash in [@ mozilla::ThreadEventTarget::IsOnCurrentThreadInfallible]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604005 - 5.3% of browser crashes
  • has a patch with uplift request
• Crash with 3rd-party modules in [@ mozilla::interceptor::ReadOnlyTargetBytes<T>::EnsureLimit]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604008 - 3.8% of browser crashes
• IPC Crash in [@ mozilla::net::PDocumentChannelParent::SendRedirectToRealChannel]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606901 - 3.2% of browser crashes
• some Linux gfx crashes: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?signature=%400x0%20%7C%20moz_gtk_widget_paint & https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/signature/?signature=%400x0%20%7C%20nsNativeThemeGTK%3A%3ADrawWidgetBackground - 3.5% of browser crashes
  • crashing stopped on 74.0a1 nightly, so the hope is that uplifting https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607088 to beta might take care of this too
• Tab crash in [@ nvd3d9wrapx.dll|... ] (various signatures): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607574 - 8% of content crashes
• Tab crash in mozilla::gfx::AdjustedPattern::operator mozilla::gfx::Pattern*: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604800 - 4.3% of content crashes
  • backout requested on beta

Release

Today Crash Rate overall Crash Incidence overall %, Mission Control v1 rate 6.42 Tuesday Crash Rate overall 1.42 Crash Incidence overall 1.01%, Mission Control v1 rate 2.46

[72.0.1]

• increasing startup crash signature [@ nsJSContext::EnsureStatics]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607703 - 1% of browser crashes

Mobile

Nightly

fennec nightly summary score: 42.82

• Nothing specific to highlight today

Beta

fennec beta summary score: 42.64

• Still fairly early for beta data, nothing significant to report as of yet

Release

fennec release summary score: 16.14

• Stuck partial wake locks issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586853 has an updated comment
• Early data still coming in. Continuing device specific issues in the top 5 crashes (Huawei)

Fenix/Firefox Preview

• Socorro fix not in 3.0.2, so nothing much to report yet for the new version
  • Nothing in the Play store either

QE

Nightly

[rpopovici] **readonly

• Test documentation for Fx73 features - finishing tp/tc and sending for review (where applicable)

Beta

[bmaris]

• First round of Beta 73 Regression Testing is in progress - https://testrail.stage.mozaws.net/index.php?/plans/view/24079

Mobile

[sdeiac]

• [mobile] Build of fennec 68.4.1 build 1 - Signed Off status GREEN
• [mobile] Build of fennec 68.5b2 build 1 - Signed Off Status GREEN
• [mobile] Build of fennec 68.5b1 build 1 - Signed Off Status GREEN
• [mobile] Fennec Profile Manager (internal tool for migration) - Signed Off Status GREEN
• Focus and Fenix signoffs in progress (will be sent by EOD)

Roundtable

• (pascal) Should we report dataloss / major feature bugs in the channel meeting? (mostly in Nightly)
  • [julien] I'm all for discussing (or at least noting) blocker bugs

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