Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-01-14

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

RyanVM, Aryx, jcristau, csasca, vlucaci, dcicas, atrif, mlobontiuroman, mboldan, sbadau, tbabos, asoncutean, ajoltan, ccomorasu, tzsoldos, lapahidean,pascal, ebalazs, phorea, abodea

Schedule Update

• 85.0b9 gtb today
• last build before rc

• Fenix 84.1.5 may be coming (see Fenix stability section)
• Fenix 85.0.0-beta.8 coming today

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.75 (+0.03 compared to last week Thursday), crash incidence: 1.88% (nil)

• Remains concerning and unassigned https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1685463
• High volume but Fission only https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1669748
• Huge crash fixed by backout: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1686387

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 2.00 (+0.44), crash incidence: 1.47% (+0.36pp) - still for Sunday's Beta

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.38 (+0.05), crash incidence: 0.87% (-0.04)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/17443 being hit more frequently due to campaign running at the moment, may drive dot release
• https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/17441 has a fix ready to ship

QA

• [Mihai]
• Outdated Smart Cards.
  • Yubico Yubikey NEO OTP+U2F+CCID - 3.51 Hardware
  • Yubico Yubikey OTP+FIDO+CCID - 4.53 Hardware
  • Contact on this matter - Dana Keeler
  • Suggestion about new smart cards?

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• [Mihai]
• Pre-release signoffs are in progress and will be sent until Friday EOD.
  • No major issues so far.

Mobile

• [Mira]
• Beta 85.0.0-beta.6 - status GREEN
• Beta 85.0.0-beta.7 - status GREEN

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1686708 news?
  • https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/eea580c7b026bebeb17e7b0ee381262543f51bb9 maybe

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx84 PM: 19-Jan after Tuesday channel meeting
  • Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NTWkGvEzZy3QPfODqpiZXBugO9l3o3sB9pu_NrN0F5g/edit#