Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-03-29

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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
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

REMEMBER

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Attendees

dmeehan, pascalc, RyanVM, dsmith, tracy, JR Johnson, Aryx, dveditz, telin

Schedule Update

• 98: no dot release planned
• 99
  • Desktop 99.0 RC1 released on the Beta channel
  • Fenix 99.1.0 RC1 rolled out to production at 5%
  • Focus/Klar 99.1.0 RC1 rolled out to production at 5%
  • Planning Desktop 99.0 RC2 on Wednesday and will also need a Fenix/Focus 99 RC2
• 100
  • Soft code freeze for 100 starting Thursday until the merge on April 4

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.55% (-0.42pp compared to previous week, Linux content crash incidence moving back to average long term levels), crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.04 (-0.08)

• Youtube Live video playback crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759137
  • first fix didn't resolve issue, developer has been needinfoed

• Linux [@ mozalloc_abort | abort | gdk_wayland_window_show]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761206
  • stalled, needs a person who can reproduce the issue

• [@ PLDHashTable::Search | mozilla::dom::BrowserParent::ActorDestroy] / [@ mozilla::dom::ContentParent::ActorDestroy] got frequent again
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696771
  • fix is on autoland, tracked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761182

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 0.99% (-1.51pp; decreased Linux crash incidence), crash rate: 1.96 ()

mc1 crash rate: ()

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.92% (-0.22pp), crash rate: 1.33 (-0.04)

QA

Beta

• RC1 99.0 - functional and update tests (beta, release-localtest) are Green

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 99 (Beta) - Complete, all features signed off
• Firefox 100 (Nightly) - Challenged, 2 features reported Yellow
  • [QA-1394] Search Live Language Switching - Nightly 100 testing reported Yellow due to inconsistencies and new issues
  • [QA-1408] Multilingual Spellchecking - Nightly 100 testing reported Yellow due to 1761464
  • [QA-1384] Stop doing old-Mozilla-style CSS pre-processing, so we can do CSS linting - unplanned exploratory testing underway on Nightly 100, with reporting scheduled for Mar 30

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Ubuntu 22.04 would ship with Firefox on Wayland by default (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1725245#c9)

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 98 retro, April 5, 5PM GMT