Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-11-03

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, dmeehan, Luna Jernberg(bittin), atrif, mlobontiuroman, avaida, mchiorean, mboldan, dpop, apetridean, epopescu, tzsoldos, ailea, csasca, Aryx, sbadau, bmaris, asoncutean, 

Schedule Update

• 106
  • Desktop 106.0.4 live @ 25%, will bump to 100% tomorrow if all goes well
  • No plans for mobile dot releases at this time
• 107
  • Desktop 107.0b9 gtb tonight @ 100% rollout, final beta for 107
  • Fenix/Focus 107.0b6 gtb tonight at 99% rollout
    • Bumped to 100% tomorrow pending QA sign-off
  • Reminder: Next week is RC week, 107.0 RC1 builds on Monday 2022-11-07
• 108
  • Nightly soft freeze starts in one week (10-Nov)

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.56% (+0..16pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.79 (-0.09)

mc1 crash rate: crashes/1k usage hours ()

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.36% (-0.41pp), crash rate: 1.39 (-0.77) - lower than usual for both values which is good

• Crash in [@ mozilla::ipc::FatalError | mozilla::ipc::IProtocol::HandleFatalError | IPC::MessageWriter::FatalError]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1794059
  • top crash
  • declared a signature change

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.68% (+0.02pp), crash rate: 1.70 (+0.05)

• [macOS 13] Crash in [@ objc_msgSend | -[AVCaptureDALDevice _refreshFormatsAndKVONotify:]], [@ _dispatch_client_callout ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798503
  • only with new macOS 13 alpha version 13.0.0 22A380

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[rdoghi]

• Dot Release 106.0.4
  • Bug 1792115 was reproduced by the QA with indications from Andrew and we managed to confirm the fix on Firefox 106.0.4. 

Nightly

[rdoghi]

• Nightly 108 feature testing - in progress
  • [QA-1572] Turn on Windows Native Notification on release channel - moved to 109
  • [QA-1644] Picture-in-Picture Enhancements - Challenged - not landed yet, QA will not be able to meet the Nightly testing milestone (Nov 4) for this feature since there's not enough time left to test it by then

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[rdoghi]

• Beta 107 end-to-end testing - completed. 
• 3rd round of Regression testing - in progress - no concerns so far.
  • One new S3 issue - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798696

Mobile

[ljanos]

• Fenix 107.0b4 [GREEN]
• Focus 107.0b4 [GREEN]
• Fenix 107.0b5 [GREEN]
• Focus 107.0b5 [GREEN]

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)