Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-01-11
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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
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Contents
Attendees
RyanVM, dmeehan, dsmith,JR Johnson,afischer, telin, Aryx, vbalducci, dveditz
Schedule Update
- Desktop 96 @ 25%
- Fenix and Focus/Klar 96 at 25%
- ESR 91.5.0 @ 100%
- Desktop/DevEdition 97.0b1 live @ 25%/100% respectively
- 97.0b2 gtb today
- Fenix/Focus 97.0.0-beta.1 gtb today
Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)
Desktop Stability
Nightly
mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.10% (+0.55pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.56 (-0.26)
mc1 crash rate: N/A (usage volume still too low in new version cycle)
- no new significant open crashes
- Nightly on Friday dropped browsing history (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1748509#c10) - was live for <1h because users reached out
Beta
mc2 crash incidence: 1.01% (+0.02pp), crash rate: 1.92 (-0.28) - for Firefox 96.0 release candidates
mc1 crash rate: N/A (usage volume still too low in new version cycle)
- no new significant open crashes
Release
mc2 crash incidence: 1.04% (-0.03pp), crash rate: 1.64 (-0.04) - for Firefox 95.0.2
mc1 crash rate: N/A (usage volume still too low in new version cycle)
- Firefox 96.0 releases, no new significant crashes yet
- crashes with ESET involved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1748490
- new ESET version of "script scanner module" (1100) was supposed to go live on Monday, new version not observed in crash reports
- 2 crash reports for 96.0 release so far
Mobile Stability
Fenix
Focus
QA
Nightly
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
Beta 97.0b1-build1 validation completed - no issues found, update tests in progress
Mobile
Action items
Feature Status Review
- Firefox 96 Release
- No known last minute feature slippage
- Firefox 97 Beta
- Colorways work remains challeged this week due to outstanding onboarding decisions. Although, the changes here are expected to be VERY lightweight so nothing of major concern.
- Several Features slipped from the Fx97 forecast shortly before merge to beta
- GPU Process Support on Android (slipped to Fx99). Crash reporting issues on Android currently holding this up. We’re coordinating with them on a solution.
- OffscreenCanvas Core Development (slipped to Fx98). Implementation is complicated by Chromes rollout. The issue here is that there are a number of js utility libraries available that check for the existence of OffscreenCanvas and then make assumptions about the backing contexts that are available. Our partial implementation (only WebGL) is running aground here . Team is investigating options of supporting 2D and bitmap. For now, we are disabling until we can formulate a path forward.
- WebGPU MVP (slipped to Fx99). Team is working through fuzzing coverage and needs more time.
- Credit card auto-fill rollout to UK, FR, and DE has been slipped.
- Firefox 98 Nightly
- Building out the feature list from Jira. Will have the Mana page live by EOD today.
SUMO Report
- Had a number of users while they did not change their lightwieght theme in FX 95 that FX is now applying a dark background to cntent as well as chrome areas.
- SUMO end of year report for those interested: https://mailchi.mp/mozilla/fx-desktop-2021-sumo-review (its very high level)
- Sumo Community thread for V96 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/715509?last=82695#post-82695
- generally the place where bugs/issues get listed by contributors when they come across them in the Desktop Forum.
Roundtable & Special Topics
- Thomas out on PTO starting next week (Jan 17th) for two weeks. Will return on Jan 31.
Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
- 01-11 retrospective meeting this morning
