Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-08-03

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, telin, jcristau, Aryx, dveditz,

Schedule Update

• RC week:
  • Desktop 91.0 RC1 shipped to Beta @ 100%
  • Fenix 91.0.0-beta.6 shipped to Beta @ 100%
  • 78.13esr and 91.0esr RC builds ready for testing
  • Fenix & Focus 91 RC builds hopefully coming today
  • Will probably need to build an RC2 for bug 1719319 once a fix is ready

• Nightly soft freeze starts Thursday

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Highlights:

• one blocker remaining for 91
• speedometer looks improved vs 90
• more accessibility issues than typical

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 1.89 (-0.17 compared to previous week), crash incidence: 1.78% (-0.13pp)

mc1 crash rate: 4.50 crashes/1k usage hours (+0.29 compared to last week(

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1723187
  • Startup Crash in [@ l10nregistry::source::FileSource::fetch_file_sync]
  • still being observed, needinfoed zibi

Beta

mc2 crash rate: N/A (+-x.xx), crash incidence: % (+-x.xxpp) (so far only data for 91.0 on Windows)

mc1 crash rate: 3.15 (-0.51)

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.28 (-0.22), crash incidence: 1.01% (+0.04pp)

mc1 crash rate: 1.76 (-0.14)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Fx91 Beta (On Track)
  • Support of XFA PDF.js considered challenged due to a11y compatability with screen readers and users of high contrast mode.
    • Likely the decision will be to ship as-is and fix a11y issue in a future release. Waiting for final decision.

• Fx92 Nightly (On Track)
  • MR1.1 Scope had been updated in Trello.See board; https://trello.com/b/8k1hT2vh/firefox
  • AVIF Image format has been deferred to Fx93 as the feature has not yet been enabled. Team is fiiling a bug to enable and is planning to do so very early in the Fx93 nightly cycle.
  • LSNG staged rollout plans have been cancelled. They are planning to enable fully by default in Fx92.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• post mortem: next week Tuesday at 8am PDT

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)