Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-08-15

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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

tania, dmeehan, RyanVM, dsmith, Aryx, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 116
  • Desktop 116.0.3 & Android 116.3.0 rebuilding today
    • it will additionally include another fix for bug 1847989
    • delayed from 2023-08-15 to 2023-08-16
  • iOS 116.2 should rollout today at 1%, possibly to 100% shortly after that
  • iOS 116.3 is pending 116.2 to rollout, most likely next week
• 117
  • 117.0b8 gtb today
• 118
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts next week 2023-08-24

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• Numbers are generally trending in the right direction with no major issues on the radar
• Still rounding up a few sec fixes before RC next week

Desktop Stability

• frequent "EMPTY: no frame data available; unknown error" as crash signature
  • started unrelated to releases, seems related to process the crashes
  • Sebastian talks to willkg about this

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.78%

• Crash in [@ mozilla::TrackBuffersManager::RemoveFrames], [@ mozilla::TrackBuffersManager::TrackData::GetTrackBuffer]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846957
  • fix on autoland: assertion downgraded to debug-only

Beta

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

Release

crash incidence: 0.69%

QA

• adobe-ps-upgrade-116
  • QA reproduced and and verified fix on Nightly. RO team to continue with verification on Beta and the usual dot release procedure tomorrow when they are back

Nightly

• New features – Nightly 118 testing started, reports due Aug 18th EOD EEST
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 118 WebRTC testing complete – no new bugs (desktop side)
  • Nightly 118 top site address autofill testing scheduled to start Aug 16
  • Nightly 118 top site web compatibility testing scheduled to start Aug 17

Beta

• New features – Beta 117 pre-release testing started, sign offs due Aug 16th EOD EEST
• Build validation – 117.0b5, 117.0b6, 117.0b7 signed off (no new bugs)
• Regression testing
  • Beta 117 regression testing (2 of 3) complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 117 antivirus testing complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 117 regression testing (3 of 3) started
  • Beta 117 end-to-end testing started

Roundtable & Special Topics

• There are no channel meetings next week due to the all-hands
• Do we treat Sev 3 incidents differently compared to Sev2, are there any places where I can learn about this?
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MIR/pages/20512894/Incident+Severity+Levels
• retro for Firefox 116: date?
  • Likely August 30