Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-04-04

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, RyanVM, dsmith, Aryx,tania, pascal, dveditz, telin

Schedule Update

• 111
  • No dot release planned before 112 go-live
• 112
  • 112.0 RC1 live @ 100% on the beta channel
  • possibly an RC2 by end of week to address bug 1826234
• 113
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts on Thursday 2023-04-06

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.71%

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.70%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Crash in [@ java.lang.IllegalStateException: at androidx.navigation.NavController.popEntryFromBackStack(NavController.kt:179)]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1826372

Focus

QA

• 102.10.0esr-build1 validation in progress, `esr-localtest` update tests passed

Nightly

• New features
  • Nightly 113 test reports provided on Mar 31, https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1794 currently trending Yellow from a quality standpoint
• Regression testing
  • Address autofill testing done – 40 new bugs (S3-S4, US and CA regions)
  • Top sites testing done – 1 new bug: 1825528 (S4)
  • Accessibility testing in progress – no new bugs so far
  • Pre-merge regression testing starts Apr 6

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 112
  • No challenged or at risk features identified
  • Feature list stabilized as expected as we are now in RC week!
• Firefox 113
  • A bit of churn this week which is normal before we hit soft code freeze on Thursday April 6th
  • Wide Gamut Color Support Remains challenged due to unexpected resource constraints. This work may slip to Fx114
  • Private Browsing Support: Complete the groundwork for encrypting Storage APIs slipped to Fx114 as bug1822889 remains outstanding
  • Private Browsing Support: IndexedDB slipped to Fx114 as well as this work is dependent on the groundwork mentioned above ^^
  • Add opened-in-new-tab tracking to SERP impression event was listed as challenged for some deliverables in Fx113 (some of this work is now targeting Fx114) but we remain on track for enabling by default in Fx115

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Adding QA milestones to whattrainisitnow.com. All ? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1826344
• Friday 2023-04-07 and Monday 2023-04-10 are public holidays for some depending on the region
• 2023-04-14 (Orthodox Good Friday), and 2023-04-17 (Orthodox Easter) RO team will be out
  • RM will aim to land patches for 113.0b3 on Wednesday so QA can verify on Thursday with CI builds before b3 gtb
  • 113.0b4 will be tested by QA on Tuesday
• Going forward, RelMan will be carrying over Nightly release notes from the previous 2 cycles
  • Improves visibility of new Nightly-only features that we're looking to get additional testing on
  • Makes it easier to notice features that have been enabled on Nightly for awhile without riding the trains
• Does the encrypted storage for private browsing also encrypt normal storage (a long standing feature request)? If so this could impact people downgrading profiles (which people do even though we discourage it) and SUMO folks will need to know. [dveditz will ask dev team]

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 111 release retro scheduled for 2023-04-11 at 8am PT