Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-10-25
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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
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Contents
Attendees
Tracy, dmeehan, telin, dsmith, Aryx, RyanVM, Pascal, JR
Schedule Update
- 106
- Desktop 106.0.1 last week fixed the AMD Zen 1 crash, released at 100% yesterday
- Desktop 106.0.2 build started
- Contains a fix that should unblock our Windows Store builds
- Other fixes are polish
- No strong driver for a Fenix Android dot release
- Breaking news, maybe one after all for A-S 94.2.2 ^
- Planned to go-live on 2022-10-27 @ 25% rollout
- 107
- Desktop 107.0b5 gtb today @ 100% rollout
- Reminder: Early beta ends at the end of this week
- 108
- top crasher fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1797001 for Fenix
- Reminder: no scheduled dot release for fx108
Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)
- Will follow up after the channel meeting
Desktop Stability
Nightly
mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.50% (-0.20pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.07 (+0.10)
Beta
mc2 crash incidence: 1.85% (+1.10pp), crash rate: 2.52 (+0.95) - slightly elevated
Release
mc2 crash incidence: 0.65% (+0.03pp), crash rate: 1.64 (+0.07)
- Crash in [@ RefPtr<T>::get | RefPtr<T>::operator-> | mozilla::gmp::ChromiumCDMParent::CreateVideoFrame]
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1797292
- has already a fix
Mobile Stability
Fenix
Focus
QA
- 1774285 – Managed to reproduce the issue on Fx106, 107, 108 and ESR 102.4 (esr seems less affected), using Windows 11 22H2 (build 25163) VM
- Will continue investigation tomorrow on physical machines (switching from beta to dev channel and updating has been very slow)
- macOS 13 Ventura – Released recently, no outstanding issues noticed in the wild (1773708 - tracking bug)
Nightly
- New feature testing – Currently in the planning phase (scheduling kickoff meetings and working on test plans)
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
- Build validation – 107.0b2, 107.0b3 and 107.0b4 signed off Green
- Regression testing
- Core regression testing (1 of 3) signed off Green – 2 bugs found: 1796562 (regression), 1796524
- Core regression testing (2 of 3) in progress – No concerns so far
- Antivirus testing in progress – No concerns so far
- Tier 1 top sites testing in progress – No concerns so far
- New feature testing – Pref’d off testing planned for [QA-1573] Quick Actions MVP around Beta 8
Mobile
Action items
Feature Status Review
- Firefox 107 Beta
- No challenged or at risk features identified
- Shaping up to be a quiet release. Small number of features targeting Fx107.
- Firefox 108 Nightly
- No challenged or at risk features identified
- Release tracking page should be live by EOD now the Confluence is back!
- Tracked feature list looks back to normal. Currently only seeing work from the WebPlatform team.
NOTE: Looking to expand the Jira query in confluence to begin including 'Story' and 'Task' type issues in Jira. Currently we've only been looking at 'Epic' issue types. Will try this out and see how much noise we experience.
SUMO Report
- Forum and social tracking sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DRuCg5QPRFyvBUedVGQrfnjyULRRC6Mi4G6r5Z-F_UM/edit?skip_itp2_check=true&pli=1#gid=977383322
- Top contact drivers: Colorways, PBM, and Firefox View
- Most inbound questions are requests to revert recent changes
- AMD crash resolved in V106.0.1 and Windows/MS store crash pending fix in V106.0.2
Roundtable & Special Topics
- mobile crash data: do we have more than Socorro, e.g. dashboards? Got asked about crash rates and similar metrics
- Europe switching to winter time, Europeans will need to attend meetings one hour earlier
- North America to catch up a week later (Nov 6th)