Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-10-18

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, JR Johnson, tracy, dsmith, RyanVM, pascal, telin

Schedule Update

• 106 shipped today
  • Desktop & Mobile at 25% rollout, as standard process we will stop updates after 24h and evaluate feedback. 100% rollout in 48h if no blocker found
  • ESR 102.4.0 @100%
  • Planned dot release for 106 ships on November 1
• 107
  • Desktop 107.0b1 live @ 25% rollout
  • Desktop 107.0b2 gtb today @ 50% rollout
  • Fenix/Focus 107.0b1 on track for rollout tomorrow @ 50% and 100% respectively 
• 108
  • no updates
  • There will be no scheduled/planned dot release for Fx108 due to the Holiday season

Reminder: Friday, October 21 is a Mozilla Wellness Day

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• 107.0b1 went live today, too early for metrics review
  • Mana's locked down anyway!

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.70% (+0.08pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.97 (+0.18)

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 0.75% (-0.37pp), crash rate: 2.22 (-0.82)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.62% (-0.01pp), crash rate: 1.57 (-0.25)

• Crash in [@ mozilla::RetainedDisplayList::DeleteAll]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766471
  • crash volume spiked since 106.0rc1, might be too much compared to 106.0 betas to be a signature change

• Crash in [@ mozilla::ipc::IProtocol::ToplevelProtocol]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789366
  • signature change but preliminary assessment is crash volume also increased for 106.0

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Crash in [@ java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: at androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement.placeRightOrBottom/placeLeftOrTop
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792796

Focus

QA

• Firefox 106 (MR) – Updates on `release` signed off Green
• Firefox 102 ESR – Updates on `esr` signed off Green

Nightly

• Regression testing – WebRTC regression testing started (no concerns so far)
• New feature testing – Currently assigning the latest requests

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 107.0b1 signed off Green
• Regression testing
  • Pre-merge regression testing signed off Green last Friday (4 new bugs, none outstanding)
  • Core regression testing (1 of 3) started
• New feature testing – https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1573 - 

QuickActions - will ride Fx107 pref'd off by default (pref'd off testing scheduled for late beta)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 107 Beta
  • Always Partitioning Storage slipped to Fx108 as the team is working to land other work around partitioned session storage to reduce risk 
  • Firefox View Followup slipped to Fx109 as eng and UX are working to reasses the sizing and needs
  • Client-side Print Support for Gsuite (Orientation) Slipped to Fx108 due to competing prioritization with page-orientation work
  • Implement PFetch/FetchService slipped to Fx108 due to competing priority within the team around YT offline work
  • CSS Content- Visibility slipped to Fx108 as it wasn't ready in time for soft code freeze
• Firefox 108 Nightly
  • Building feature list. Release tracking mana page to be completed by EOD

SUMO Report

Major Release 2022 Tracking

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XlnvKTi63XXHKAX1OiIjufXAaypCnQpfpAsM1BGofgM/edit#gid=0 List of Changes
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10xrVMTAa49SoLRftiSGlIfP_ZWk8-o-C53OUhG_MdLw/edit#gid=49237305 Feedback Tracker
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6N7QoJIA4vRP_NPfisFGvgCShLh12HXFqDdZRQvp2k/edit#heading=h.eqj4bz7jgcok Feedback Monitoring process
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cf77GcchmTrrwzGEmckWgbKPGdF-3_sM0718Asx7QfQ/edit#heading=h.k6rd2zxo0gjt MR Feature intros on Connect

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Confluence pages will be 'frozen' until the Confluence changes are complete. Currently scheduled for October 23rd.
  • Keep in mind that saved URLs pointing to the previoud hosted version will need to be updated

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Retro held today 10/18 for fx105
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KSb-7sZ7s9NzU4SSNLuSQBlHZW2_f9GEFoBq7SUP85Q/edit?usp=sharing