Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-03-07

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

dsmith, dmeehan, dveditz, pascalc, ryanvm, aryx

Schedule Update

• 110
  • There's no dot release planned before 111 go-live
• 111
  • Desktop 111.0 RC1 live @ 100% on Beta channel
  • Android Fenix/Focus 111.0 @ 5% rollout in the Goolge Play Store
  • Firefox iOS 111.0 RC build ready for QA
  • Reminder: Today is the release notes deadline
  • Reminder: 111 go-live next week 2022-03-14
• 112
  • Soft Code Freeze: March 9th

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/140869707/Fx111+Status+Beta

Desktop Stability

Nightly

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

• Linux Crash in [@ mozilla::VideoFrameSurface<T>::ReleaseVAAPIData]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1820827
  • regressing change identified, developer needinfoed

Beta

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

• Frequent Windows 32-bit Crash in [@ OOM | large | mozalloc_abort | std::alloc::_::__rg_oom], 90% on Windows 7
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1820479

Release

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

• Crash in [@ nsIFrame::GetParent] spiked since start of March
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1820832

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA (Read only updates)

• ESR 102.9.0-build1 in testing, no concerns so far

Nightly

• New features
  • QA-1683 - Awesome Bar Result Menu – telemetry changes not landed yet
  • QA-1170 - New audio backend infrastructure – moved to Fx113
• Regression testing
  • Top sites testing signed off Green – no new bugs
  • Address autofill testing complete – 40 new bugs (S3/S4, site-specific)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation
  • 111.0b7, 111.0b7 signed off Green – 3 new bugs: 1820112 (S4), 1820118 (S4), 1820168 (S3, regression)
  • 111.0-build1 in testing, no concerns so far
• Regression testing – Regression testing (3 of 3) and End-to-end testing signed off Green, no new bugs

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• North America switches to daylight savings time the coming weekend - for people who don't change the clocks (e.g. Europe), the meeting will be one hour earlier

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx110 Retrospective March 14th