Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-23

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, abodea, apetridean, cbaica, dbarladeanu, mboldan, ljanos, atrif, pascalc, mchiorean, Aryx, gnichita, mlobontiuroman, tzsoldos, phorea

Schedule Update

• 120
  • Desktop 120.0 and Android Fenix/Focus 120.0 live @ 100% rollout
  • iOS Focus/Klar 120.1 live with a progressive rollout
    • Unplanned dot release to address a spike in sentry logs.
  • Android/iOS planned dot release sheduled for next week
    • gtb on 2023-11-27, go-live on 2023-11-28 after QA sign-off
• 121
  • Desktop/Android 121.0b2 live @ 50% rollout
  • iOS 121.0 beta 2 available for External Testers
  • Desktop/Android 121.0b3 gtb tomorrow
    • Desktop rolls out @ 100%
    • Android rolls out @ 99%, bumping to 100% on Monday after QA sign-off
  • iOS 121.0 beta 3 gtb today
• 122
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 4.52% +1.97(pp compared to previous week) - increase caused by two frequent crashers for which new Nightlies with backout got built on Wednesday

• frequent Crash in [@ AsyncShutdownTimeout | quit-application-granted | DAPTelemetrySender: sending data]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866229
  • regressor not identified yet, needinfoed developer who touched the file often in the past assigned bug to himself

Beta

crash incidence: 1.13% (-0.33pp) - very low usage volume, only Windows crashes at this point

• startup Crash in [@ mozilla::net::LoadInfo::SetReservedClientInfo] on Amazon
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761208
  • more crashes than usual in 121.0b1

Release

crash incidence: 1.08% (+0.42pp) - low usage volume directly after release

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 121 feature preliminary testing - in progress
  • QA-2107- Webcompat Reporting Tool - 11 new bugs were encountered
• 1st round of Beta 121 functional testing - in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 121 smoke testing - in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 121 top site web compatibility testing - in progress. No concerns.

Mobile

• Android

[apetridean]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 121.0b1 - status GREEN
    • Beta 121.0b2 - status GREEN
    • RC 120.0 build 2 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2154] Feature QA for CBH @ Android - in progress
    • [QA-2133] Review checker on Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de - not started
    • [QA-2171] Shopping Catch All for v121 given we don't yet know what exactly is prioritized for 121 yet [Android] - not started
    • [QA-2198] Android Review Checker Ads – in progress

• iOS

[andrei]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v120 (36138) RC3 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v121 (36211) Beta 1 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v121 (36255) Beta 2 - RED
    • Firefox iOS v120.1 (36298) Dot Release 1 - Green
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2125] - Simplified Nav: Private Window Visual Refresh (iOS) - test cases creation in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Softvision team will be out of office on November 30th and December 1st - National holidays in Romania

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)