Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-05-17

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, Pascal, dsmith, dmeehan, tracy, telin

Schedule Update

• 100
• 100.0.1 @ 100% as well as Mobile 100.2.0
• We expect to ship a chemspill later this week in response to pwn2own (a Firefox entry is confirmed), ESR TBD
  • no other drivers at the moment
• 101
  • Desktop/DevEdition 101.0b8 gtb today
  • Fenix/Focus 101.0.0-beta.5 live @ 100%, beta.6 gtb targeting Thursday (though possibly impacted by pwn2own)
• 102

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• Should we switch to MC2 for crash rate reporting?
  • Aryx pinged again recently about MC1 issues
  • MC1 stopped working around jan 13 2022 for fx96
• Should we drop the sec review line?
  • YES

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.63% (+0.79pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.41 (+0.19) - higher crash rates over the weekend

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.68% (-0.59pp), crash rate: 1.91 (-0.09)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.92% (+/-0pp), crash rate: 1.44 (-0.17)

• startup [@ nsObserverService::AddObserver] from win32k lockdown
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1769807
  • needinfo bobowen

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• Nightly 102 new feature testing is on track to be completed by May 20
• New audio backend infrastructure on Mac has been moved to Fx103 - see https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1170

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 101 feature pre-release sign offs - in progress. No concerns until now.
• 3rd round of Regression testing - in progress. No new issues encountered so far.

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 101 (Beta)
  • Move audio decoding to Utility Process slipped to Fx102 due to some crash telemetry concerns. They have now been resolved but shifted to Nightly for additional bake time.
• Firefox 102 (Nightly)
  • M1 - Accessibility Engine Improvements (Cache the World Milestone 1) continues to be challenged due to outstanding android refactoring
  • WebGPU MVP remains at risk as this work has been in release to release slip. Team continues burning down the remaining bugs.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx100 retro tentatively on May 31