Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-08-29
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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
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Contents
Attendees
dmeehan, RyanVM, dveditz, Aryx, telin
Schedule Update
- 117
- Desktop 117.0 live @ 25% rollout. Throttling to 0% tomorrow per usual practice.
- Desktop ESR 102.15.0 & 115.2.0 live @ 100% rollout
- Final planned release for ESR102. Automatic updates to ESR115 will happen next cycle.
- Android Fenix/Focus/Klar 117.0 live @ 25% rollout
- iOS Firefox/Focus/Klar 117.0 gradual rollout started
- 118
- Desktop and Android 118.0b1 live @ 25% rollout
- Desktop 118.0b2 gtb on 2023-08-29 @ 50% rollout
- Android 118.0b2 gtb on 2023-08-29
- Rolling out to 50% on 2023-08-30 pending QA sign-off
- Firefox iOS 118.0b1 available to External Testers
- Firefox iOS 118.0b2 gtb on 2023-08-29
- Available to External Testers on 2023-08-30 pending QA sign-off
- 119
- Fx119 nightly cycle has started
Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)
Desktop Stability
Nightly
crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.54%
Beta
Release
crash incidence: 0.63%
Mobile Stability
Fenix
- Seeing a spike in EMPTY minidump crashes from Fenix since 116, appears to be pre-existing crashes now being submitted when they weren't before rather than a new spike
Focus
QA
- 117.0-build2 – updates signed off on `release`
- 115.2.0esr-build1, 102.15.0esr-build2 – updates signed off on `esr`
Nightly
- New features – Currently in the early planning stage, keeping an eye out for new requests by Sep 1st
Aurora / Dev Edition
Beta
- Build validation – 118.0b1-build1 signed off (no new bugs)
- New features – Beta 118 preliminary reports scheduled by Sep 6th eod EEST, however the team may not be able to meet this deadline for the following features:
- https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2037 - code not landed yet
- https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1794 - code not landed yet (may land by Sep 1st per Engineering)
- Regression testing
- Nightly 118 pre-merge regression testing complete – 1 new bug (S3): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1850118
- Beta 118 regression testing (1 of 3) started
- Beta 118 top site web compatibility testing started
Mobile
Action items
Feature Status Review
- Firefox 118
- [Sidebar] Update FakeSpot opt-in UI with final images and strings slipped to Fx119 per a recent sprint planning session. Fx118 was optimistic, now targeting Fx119.
- Update Survey UI in sidebar with final styles slipped to Fx119 per a recent sprint planning session. Fx118 was optimistic, now targeting Fx119.
- Implement the three Fakespot feature callout messages slipped to Fx119 per a recent sprint planning session. Fx118 was optimistic, now targeting Fx119.
- Implement :has() pseudo-class CSS Selector slipped to Fx119 as we weren't quite ready before Nightly soft code freeze
- Firefox 119
- Release tracking confluence page will be live by EOD
- We already have 48 tracked issues for Fx119. Volume of work was expected to be high as Fx119 is a target for Shopping and Fx S&P. That said, there's a bit of cleanup to be done here before we can call this list of work finalized.
SUMO Report
Roundtable & Special Topics
Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)
- 116 retrospective scheduled for 2023-08-30 @ 15:00 UTC