Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-04-25

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, RyanVM, mboldan, apetridean, dsmith, dlucaci, mlobontiuroman, csasca, atrif, epopescu, mcacciapagia, Aryx, phorea, ailea, tzsoldos, cbaica, obotisan, sbadau, btot

Schedule Update

• 125
  • Desktop 125.0.2 live @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 125.2.0 release live @ 100% rollout
  • iOS Firefox 125.2 planned release live with a progressive rollout
  • Moving up the planned Desktop/Android/iOS 125.0.3/125.3 dot releases a bit to address bug 1892612 sooner
    • gtb hopefully on 2024-04-26 (or over the weekend if necessary), go-live on 2024-04-29 after QA sign-off
• 126
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890764 has a fix and will be uplifted for 126.0b6
  • Desktop 126.0b6 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
    • This is the final Early Beta build of the cycle
  • Android 126.0b6 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 126.0b6 gtb today
    • Available to external testers tomorrow pending QA sign-off
  • Next week is the last week of Fx126 beta
• 127
  • 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): 1.34% (+0.44pp compared to previous week) - still below longterm average

Beta

crash incidence: 1.08% (pp)

• Crash in [@ mozilla::nsCookieBannerTelemetryService::MaybeReportGoogleGDPRChoiceTelemetry]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1893466
  • low volume but some telemetry might be broken

Release

crash incidence: 0.86% (pp)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[mboldan]

• All QA located in Romania will be out of office on May 1st (Labor Day) and May 3-6 (Orthodox Easter), as they are national holidays
  • DESKTOP QA: There will be no major impact on the team's commitments during this period
    • Please note: Nightly 127 new feature test reports will be provided one business day later, on May 7th (was May 3rd)
    • The team's availability during this period: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13vLPEBMrgqJL1Zd8Znnujdj_9v67YHWbpLShU3v_7Q0/edit?usp=sharing
    • The team's testing cycle overview: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14OKHigNdKVOVmD1ZKLtqPXMlGWiw6jFQR03MfKsP2ow/edit#gid=1701490887&range=32:32

Nightly

• WebRTC testing in progress. No new issues encountered so far.

Aurora / Dev Edition

• [Fx126] DevEd functional testing completed. No new issues found.

Beta

• 2nd round of functional testing in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 126 antivirus testing in progress. No concerns.
• Beta 126 new feature pre-release testing in progress. Reports will be sent until April 30, eod.
• Beta 126 exploratory testing in progress. No concerns.

Mobile

[apetridean]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 126.0b3 - status GREEN
    • Beta 126.0b4 - status GREEN
    • Beta 126.0b5 - status GREEN
    • RC 125.2.0 build 1 - status GREEN

• • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - Beta 126 status GREEN
    • [QA-2258] Android Toolbar Redesign - in progress
    • [QA-2391] TextInput event feature testing (regression prevention) - in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 126 (40917) - Beta 3 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 126 (40917) - Beta 4 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 125.2 (41035) - Dot release 2 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 126 (41093) - Beta 5 - status [YELLOW]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA-2324 - iOS Toolbar Redesign - test case creation in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review (read-only)

• Fx126
  • iOS tab tray refactor is on track for an experiment in Fx126 (and rollout in Fx127) after some earlier attempts blocked by regressions. FXIOS-6528
  • Android Translations are on track to ship in Fx126.
• Fx127
  • No challenged or at risk features at this time!
  • Android tab tray refactor is targeting Fx127. This is a big change and might be a regression risk. FXDROID-1476

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)