Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-09-19

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

RyanVM, dmeehan, telin, tania, pascal, dsmith, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 117
  • No further releases planned ahead of next week's releases
• 118
  • Desktop 118.0 RC1 live on beta @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 118.0 live on play store @ 5% rollout
  • iOS Firefox 118.0 RC is stuck on a CI issue (can't import updated strings)
  • iOS Focus 118.0 RC available for QA
  • Deadline for 118.0 release notes is today
• 119
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts on Thursday 2023-09-21
    • String freeze starts on Friday 2023-09-22
  • Fx119 Merge Day next week, Monday 2023-09-25
  • FYI: Desktop beta start time will be changing to M/W/F @ 13:00 UTC starting with 119 (bug 1853966)

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.67%

Beta

crash incidence: 0.88%

Release

crash incidence: 0.66%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• New features – Nightly 119 reports provided on Sep 15th
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2071 - QA is trying to determine if code has been fully landed (we suspect it hasn't).
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 119 top site autofill testing (credit cards) complete – 4 new bugs (S3-S4): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=1853142,1853161,1852905,1852920
  • Nightly 119 top site web compatibility testing complete – no new bugs
  • Nightly 119 accessibility testing in progress
  • Nightly 119 pre-merge regression testing starts Sep 21

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 118.0b8, 118.0b9 signed off (no new bugs); 118.0 in testing
• Regression testing
  • Beta 118 regression testing (3 of 3) complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 118 end-to-end testing complete – no new bugs

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 118
  • No challenged or at risk features identified by feature owners
  • Continues to be quiet from a feature perspective
• Firefox 119
  • No challenged or at risk features identified by feature owners
  • interop-2023 Update URL parser to comply with URL standard slipped to Fx120 as the work is unlikely to be completed ahead of soft code freeze
  • Automatically import/trust Third Party Root Certificates slipped to Fx120 as the work has been paused for some time and will not make it into Fx119. There's been some recent movement that will possibly see this happen in Fx120
  • OMT: Move OnStartRequest and OnStopRequest to the content process slipped to Fx120 while the team continues working through scope and estimation efforts
  • 103 EarlyHints slipped to Fx120 while we await experiment results to determine full release rollout
  • From today's Fx Desktop meeting: "QA has given us the green light on our session restore work (and most has been in Nightly behind a pref for a while), so we’ll be shipping that in 119 with prefs on by default."
  • Firefox View updates which have been behind a Nightly-only pref also shipping in 119

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx117 retro next Tuesday @ 8am PDT
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v_DLhpF_egcXV-d61XKDFC8XqjaSyrWWhBsoVD0ZKmA/edit?usp=sharing