Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-11-15

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

dmeehan, telin, dsmith, Aryx, JR Johnson, tania, tracy

Schedule Update

• 107
  • 107 go-live day
  • Desktop 107.0 live @ 25% rollout
  • Fenix & Focus 107.1.0 live @ 25% rollout
  • 102.5.0 ESR live @ 100% rollout
• 108
  • 108.0b1 is live @25%
  • 108.0b2 will go live today @50%
  • Fenix/Focus 108.0b1 will rollout tomorrow @ 50% and 100% respectively 
  • No scheduled dot release for 108 cycle
• 109
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.61% (+0.07pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.72 (-0.04)

• Top Crash in [@ mozilla::safebrowsing::Classifier::ReadNoiseEntries] for file downloads
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777600
  • resolved by backout

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 0.91% (-0.01pp), crash rate: 2.33 (+0.23) - still for 107.0 release candidate

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.73% (-0.10pp), crash rate: 1.66 (-0.04) - still for 106.0.5

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Release 107 – RC2 107.0 signed off Green on `release` channel today
• ESR 102.5 – RC1 102.5.0esr signed off Green on `esr` channel today

Nightly

• New features – Currently in planning
• Regression testing – WebRTC testing in progress (no concerns so far)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 108.0b1 signed off Green today (snap was however not available, Canonical notified)
• Regression testing
  • Accessibility testing signed off Green – 2 bugs found: 1799491 (S2 regression, fixed), 1799460 (S4 regression)
  • Pre-merge regression testing signed off Green – 2 bugs found: 1800090 (S3), 1800233 (S3 regression)
• New features – Beta 108 preliminary testing will start earlier to compensate for the upcoming holidays in Romania (Nov 30, Dec 1)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 108 (Beta)
  • Callout: pdf.JS annotations considered challenged this week as the team is having issues with passing on try. Looking to have this resolved soon.
• Firefox 109 (Nightly)
  • Client-side Print Support for Gsuite (Named Pages) slipped from the Fx107 forecast after a gsuite meeting. Mostly due to upcoming holidays and additional testing needs.
  • Client-side Print Support for Gsuite (Orientation) slipped from the Fx108 forecast after a gsuite meeting. Mostly due to upcoming holidays and additional testing needs.
  • Building feature list. Release tracking mana page to be completed by EOD

SUMO Report

• https://mailchi.mp/mozilla.com/mr-2022-sumo-release-summary-8687734?e=[UNIQID]

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 106 retro scheduled for 2022-11-22 at 11:00 am ET