Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-02-29

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

abodea, rpopovici,dsmith, mlobontiuroman, ljanos, dpop, apetridean, csasca, oardelean, cbaica, dmeehan, phorea, mchiorean, atrif, Aryx, RyanVM, btot, bmaris, dbarladeanu, mcacciapaglia, pascalc

Schedule Update

• 123
  • Planned dot release ships March 5 (desktop and mobile)
  • 123.2 iOS dot weekly dot release shipped this week
• 124
  • 124.0b6 gtb tomorrow 2024-03-01
  • Desktop/Mobile Android 124.0b5 went live on 2024-02-28
  • iOS 124.0 beta 5 is available to external beta users on 2024-02-29
  • End of early beta is tomorrow 2024-03-01
• 125
  • top crashes had regressor backed out
  • mac updates were paused
    • On track to re-enable today

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): 2.19%

• no significant new crashes

Beta

crash incidence: 2.14% - 1/3 higher than in recent weeks

• no significant new crashes

Release

crash incidence: 1.01%

• no significant new crashes

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

* Nightly 125 feature testing - currently in planning, preparing the test documentation
* WebRTC testing - completed Desktop part - no new issues

Aurora / Dev Edition

* DevEd functional testing round - in progress, Report will be sent today, EOD.

Beta

* Beta 124 new feature preliminary testing - sent yesterday
** [QA-2277] Search Continuation and Discovery via (Google's) Trending Searches - quality status is RED (due to a defect blocking the feature Bug 1882043- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882043 - fixed on Nightly)
** [QA-2015] Tab/Hover Preview - quality status is YELLOW due to 6 high impact defects affecting the feature (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=1875831%201876044%201876493%201876522%201878920%201881782&list_id=16920308)
*** Is there a ticket to enable this feature? 
****Might slide into 125
*****bmaris: there is no ticket to enable the feature, currently is off by default.

• Beta 124 new feature pre-release testing - in progress.
• Beta 124 Antivirus testing round completed. No new issues.
• Beta 124 functional testing round in progress. No concerns.

Mobile

• Android [Mira]
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 3 - status GREEN
    • Beta 4 - status GREEN
    • Beta 5 - status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - in progress
    • [QA-2258] Android Toolbar Redesign - in progress
    • [QA-2300] Firefox for Android being merged to mozilla-central - YELLOW sign-off sent today

• iOS

[abodea]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 124 (39064) - Beta 3 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 124 (39092) - Beta 4 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 123.2 (39233) - Dot Release 2 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 124 (39212) - Beta 5 - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA - 2148 Enhanced Cross-Platform Suggest - test case update in progress
    • QA - 2306 iOS Address Autofill - Phase 1 - test case creation in progress
    • QA - 2319 Login/Password Autofill Improvements - test case creation in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)