Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-12-08

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, Aryx, dsmith,oardelean,epopescu, dpop, mlobontiuroman, mboldan, atrif, asoncutean, tzsoldos, csasca, cbaica, phorea, vlucaci

Schedule Update

• 107
  • No dot release planned before 108 go-live
• 108
  • 108.0 RC2 will be built today with Mobile 108.1.0 build 2 as well
  • 108.0 go-live on 2022-12-13
  • iOS Focus 108.0 is in QA testing
• 109
  • Nightly soft freeze is underway
  • Mobile betas won't be ready until Wednesday next week due to Focus repo migration happening Tuesday
    • Focus nightlies will be disabled tomorrow until after the migration is complete

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.51% (-0.07pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.86 (-1.68) - back to normal level

• Crash with AsyncShutdownTimeout | IOUtils: waiting for profileBeforeChange IO to complete | JSON store: writing data for 'targeting.snapshot'
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799823
  • developer needinfoed

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.52% (+0.21pp), crash rate: 2.92 (+0.87) - increased due to low adoption of this beta version on Linux which increased crash rate

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.67% (-0.01pp), crash rate: 1.58 (+0.27)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[sbadau]

• Esr 102.6 build 1 - testing was completed with a Green status
• RC1 108.0-build1 - testing was completed with a Green status - Spot-check snap was excluded as there were no builds available.

Nightly

• Nightly 109 pre-merge regression testing - is in progress and the report will be sent by December 9th EOD
• Feature testing:
  • QA-1646 - Datepicker Accessibility Improvements – testing is in progress, and a report will be sent as soon as testing is done.
  • QA-1686 - FxView - Removal of Colorways Null State – exploratory testing is on track to be completed by tomorrow / December 9th at the latest. No outstanding issues found so far.
  • QA-1692 - FxView - Add ability to remove Recently Closed URLs – testing is in progress to be completed by tomorrow / December 9th. No outstanding issues found so far.
• Nightly 109 accessibility testing - completed with a Green report.
• Nightly 109 search regression testing - is in progress and the report will be sent by December 9th EOD

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

[dpop]

• Fenix 108.0b6 [GREEN]
• Fenix RC 108.1.0 build 1 [GREEN] 
• Focus 108.0b6 [GREEN]
• Focus RC 108.1.0 build 1 [GREEN] 
• QA-1706 - Cookie Banner suppression settings on Android mobile [IN PROGRESS]

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 107 retro is scheduled for 2022-12-13 @ 8am PT