Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-12-21

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, dbarladeanu, mciure, epopescu, RyanVM, dlucaci, mlobontiuroman, mboldan, abodea, ljanos, mchiorean, btot

Schedule Update

• 121
  • Desktop/Android 121.0 bumped to 100% rollout today
  • Firefox iOS 121.0 live with a phased rollout since 2023-12-17
  • There are no planned mobile dot releases scheduled for next week
  • Android and iOS planned dot releases scheduled for gtb on 2024-01-02
• 122
  • Desktop/Android 122.0b2 live @ 50%
  • Firefox iOS 122.0b2 available to external testers
  • Desktop 122.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
  • Android 122.0b3 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 122.0b3 gtb today
    • Available to external testers tomorrow pending QA sign-off
• 123
  • No updates
    • Stability crash covered below

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): 2.93% (+0.46pp compared to previous week)

• frequent crash in [@ IPC::ParamTraits<mozilla::layers::Animation>::Write]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1871139
  • no regressor identified
  • no assignee

Beta

crash incidence: 3.25% (+1.84pp) - driven by high Linux crash incidence of 7.69% from 39 crashes, 31 are [@ HandleGLibMessage] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144

Release

crash incidence: 0.88% (+0.10pp) - elevated because low user population directly after update available

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[epopescu]

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 122 feature preliminary testing - in progress and the features reports will be sent by 3rd of January EOD
• Beta 122 smoke testing - in progress, no concerns so far; report will be sent tomorrow EOD
• Beta 122 functional testing (1 of 4) - in progress, no concerns so far; report will be sent tomorrow EOD
• Beta 122 top site web compatibility testing - completed, with GREEN status

Mobile

[mciure]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 122.0b1 - status GREEN
    • Beta 122.0b2 - status GREEN
    • RC 121.0 build 2 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2171] Shopping Catch All for v121 given we don't yet know what exactly is prioritized for 121 yet [Android] - in progress
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - in progress
    • [QA-2211] DMA choice screen QA for Fenix - in progress
    • [QA-2133] Review checker on Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de - in progress

[Diana Barladeanu]

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 122(36988) - Beta 1 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 122 (37071) - Beta 2 - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • Fakespot - currently testing this feature on iPad on v122

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 122 Beta
  • Enable the 1-click set to default option for MS store users marked as CHALLENGED as this work may not be able to ship with Fx123. Team is working through the blockers.
  • Implement RSA Blind Signatures (behind pref) slipped to Fx124 as the team is still working through reviews and has not yet decided on the final API that will be exposed
  • Android and iOS had planned to roll out Review Checker by default and start a Review Checker ads experiment in Fx122, but both have been postponed until Desktop runs another Review Checker UX experiment. No ETA for the mobile rollout or experiment, but no sooner than March.
• Firefox 123 Nightly
  • No challenged or at risk features at this time
  • Support Curve25519 in WebCrypto slipped to Fx125 as the code within Hacl did not meet our standard requirements as it generated some sub-dependencies that will be hard to maintain. Due to some competing priorities we shift the delivery of this work to Fx125.
  • Release tracking page is now live in confluence
  • 24 Desktop & 15 Android/iOS Jira issues already targeting Fx123

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• The next channel meeting is after the holidays on 2024-01-04

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)