Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2012-04-12

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursday - 2:00pm PDT, 21:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Previous Actions

• John to file bugs for next week's EOL MU prompts.
  • bugs now filed, joduinn 10apr2012
• Marcia to come up with affected 10.5 Java versions

Schedule Update

• Our expectation is that the OS X 10.5 java block will go out today/tomorrow

• Beta 5 will be released tomorrow (4/13)
• Code freeze for FF12 is also tomorrow
  • Overall, things are looking pretty good (only 5 non-security bugs tracked for FF12's release)

• First 3.6 (EOL) MU prompts will occur next week
• De-support add-on hotfix expected to test and roll out to the beta population next week
  • Meeting to answer open questions and finalize testing held tomorrow (4/13 @ TBA)
• Testing of 3.6->12 WN page is also upcoming

• Beta 6 go-to-build expected Monday (4/16)
• Final FF12 and ESR builds next Friday (4/21)

• FF12's release (4/24)
  • The full block in bug 741592 will be implemented at that time

Stability

Beta

• bug 738661 – crash in nmsvc from CovenantEyes
  • No longer a top crasher (and is believed to be an external issue), so we've deprioritized its investigation
• bug 741179 – crash in nsDiskCacheBlockFile::Write
  • We have no leads at this point other than a hypothesis that NSPR may be implicated
  • Startup crasher, but the crash signature actually rose in Beta 4 instead of dropping, so there's little reason to believe this is an 100% of the time startup crasher
• bug 673543 – crash nsDiskCacheMap::DeleteRecord
  • Not a FF12 regression, can discuss uplifting a fix if/when nominated (unlikely)
• bug 738640 – [10.7] crash in -[BaseWindow dealloc], caused by bug in RoboForm extension
  • Patch available, need to weigh the risk of taking the patch in beta 6 versus blocklisting the affected version of RoboForm on OS X

QA

Beta

• Do we have access to XP x64 and Windows Server?
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741004#c8 conflicts with https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/e752febf21d65c49 and we need to figure out if either of these versions of Windows have issues running FF13
• Behavior clarification needed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741592

Marketing/Communications

• Fx 12 release day
  • Jaclyn F is on point for 4/24 for PMM, Grace J will be on point the rest of the week with Laura M.
  • Mark L on point on 4/24 for PR.
  • Erica J and Laura M can be reached as needed over release week.
• Is it possible to build an uninstall page in to Fx flow?
• Has anyone ever heard of Firefox Portable App?
  • http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Roundtable

• bug 738484 for beta?

• Future: mozilla-beta nightlies
  • Background updates will be landing in FF14 or 15
  • Benefits of nightlies: shorter verification turn-around time, freed up RelEng/QA resources, late-breaking beta issues can be much more easily resolved
  • We should start scoping work and identifying problems for nightlies when Firefox 15 is on mozilla-beta (14 weeks away)
  • Crash-stats & Support implications of having many beta build IDs
  • QA implications since sign-offs would no longer be feasible - automate update testing
  • Approval implications - always need to land on Aurora first, then on Beta

Triage

Aurora Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms
• Unresolved Tracking Bugs for FF54

Beta Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms
• Unresolved Tracking Bugs for FF128