Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-03-01

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

pascal, dmeehan, afischer, telin, RyanVM, Aryx, dveditz, dsmith

Schedule Update

• Desktop 98 RC1 shipped
• Fenix 98 RC shipped to 5% of release population
• Focus 98 RC in QA phase
• Soft code freeze for 99 starting this Thursday until the merge on March 8
• There will be 1 less beta in the first week of the beta cycle for 99
  • Beta 1 scheduled for March 8th
  • Beta 2 scheduled for March 10th
• Reminder that March 7 is a wellness day, merge is on the 8th

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.57% (+0.40pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.83 (-0.04)

• [@ webrender::render_task_graph::RenderTaskGraph::resolve_impl ]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1707052
  • expected to be fixed by backout of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1748788

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 0.99% (-1.87pp), crash rate: 2.07 (-0.71) - closer to normal levels, even lower

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.36% (-0.13pp), crash rate: 1.46 (-0.04)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• A11y testing in progress on Nightly 99, this time also including MSIX coverage - no outstanding issues found so far

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• RC1 98.0-build1 reported challenged due to a Win 10 ARM64 crash on Hulu - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757534 (S2 regression introduced by 1745511)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 98 (Beta)
  • Resolve Linux sandboxing compatibility issues with VA-API slipped to Fx100+ due to some ongoing work from Redhat. See bug 1743926.
• Firefox 99 (Nightly)
  • OffscreenCanvas Core Development had planned to ship zoom support in Fx98 but this work has been slipped to Fx99
  • Bring Swipe-to-navigate to Linux has been removed from the Fx99 forecast. No new Release version identified at this time

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Sec review

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)