Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-01-17

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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

REMEMBER

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Attendees

Tracy, RyanVM, telin, dmeehan, dsmith, pascalc, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 109
  • Desktop 109.0 live @ 25% rollout
    • Throttling to 0% scheduled for tomorrow @ 6am PT
  • Fenix/Focus/Klar 109.1.1 live @ 25% rollout
  • Focus iOS 109.0 staged rollout started
  • Desktop 102.7.0esr live @ 100% rollout
• 110
  • Desktop 110.0b1 at 25% rollout today
  • Desktop 110.0b2 at 50% rollout tomorrow
  • Mobile beta 1 is in QA
• 111
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• More a11y carry-over regressions than usual compared to past releases

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.65% (pp compared to previous week) - still for 110.0a1, data lags

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

Release

crash incidence: 0.73% [108.0.2] / 1.06 [109.0 - very likely not enough data to measure it reliably yet]

• already crash reports from 9 installations of 109.0 on Linux for this wayland crash. 6 of 13 crashes in the first minute
  • https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=libwayland-egl.so.1%400x1209&version=109.0&date=%3C2023-01-17T17%3A59%3A56%2B00%3A00&date=%3E%3D2023-01-10T17%3A59%3A56%2B00%3A00#summary

QA

• RC2 109.0 and ESR 102.7.0 signed off Green on the `release` and `esr` channels

Nightly

• New features – Currently in planning

Beta

• Build validation
  • 110.0b1 signed off Green – 1 new bug: 1810716 (S3, non-regression)
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 110 pre-merge regression testing signed off Green – 1 new bug: 1810146 (S4, non-regression)
  • Nightly 110 search regression testing signed off Green (no new bugs)
  • Beta 110 regression testing (1 of 3) started
• New features – All trending Green from quality standpoint, Beta 110 preliminary testing starting soon

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 110 Beta
  • No Challenged or At Risk features reported
  • Remove origin directories on shutdown with a background task slipped to Fx111 due to some team absences and additional needed reviews
  • Implement PFetch/FetchService slipped to Fx111 as the patches to land bounced twice. Team needs more time.
  • Support "File System" slipped to Fx111 as OPFS was enabled in Nightly but will not ride the release with Fx111
• Firefox 111 Nightly
  • Building feature list. Already see 23 tracked issue in Jira. Several Search related items are being reported! 9 issues are carryovers from a previous release forecast.
  • Release tracking mana page to be completed by EOD

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx108 retro was held today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17RWqasIvb6G0Nu3Iiw6YN4-p_SIgX-uDgLwTnWweGiE/edit