Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-02-07

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

telin, jr johnson, dmeehan, RyanVM, pascalc, Aryx, tania, dveditz, dsmith

Schedule Update

• 109
  • No dot release planned before 110 rolls out
• 110
  • 110.0 RC1 live on beta
  • Fenix/Focus 110.0 available for QA tomorrow
    • Rolling out to 5% once we have QA sign-off
• 111
  • Soft Freeze starts at the end of this week (2023-02-09)

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• Nothing of concern going into RC week
  • No blockers or S1 regressions

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.02%

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.73%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• ESR 102.8.0 in testing – no issues so far
• Off-train
  • [QA-1755] Windows 11 "Moment 2" update – QA is looking to test the upcoming Windows 11 update using insider builds
  • [QA-1732] Update testing for bug 1804303 – All tests have passed on the `release-localtest` and `esr-localtest` channels using the latest RC builds (including the 109.0.1 watershed)

Nightly

• New features – All trending Green from quality standpoint
• Regression testing
  • Accessibility testing in progress – no issues so far
  • Pre-merge regression testing starts Feb 9

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – All trending Green from quality standpoint
  • [QA-1639] Persist Search Term in Address Bar got slipped to Fx111
  • 110.0b8, 110.0b9 signed off Green last week – no new bugs
  • RC1 110.0 in testing – no issues so far
• Regression testing
  • End-to-end testing signed off Green – no new bugs
  • Regression testing (3 of 3) signed off Green – 5 new bugs: 1813579 (S4), 1814047 (S3), 1814057(S3, regression), 1814387 (S3), 1814400 (S3, regression)
  • Onboarding testing signed off Green – no new bugs

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 110 Beta
  • No reported challenged or at risk features
  • Persist Search Term in Address Bar slipped to Fx111
• Firefox 111 Nightly
  • Native Fullscreen on macOS is currently 'at risk' due to an extended review time and the looming soft code freeze deadline. May slip to Fx112
  • PDF.js on Mobile has two patches outstanding but is expected to fully land before the soft code freeze
  • CSS Colors - Level 4 Closeout slipped to Fx112 to ensure they can include some outstanding functionality within the scope
  • Support audio output device authorization has been added to the forecast for Fx111
  • SearchService Dynamic interface specifications to source tree (class and method names) slipped to Fx112
  • WebRender: Address Quality Issues as the work is taking longer than expected. First set of patches were backed out and the remaining work was depdendent on that landing

SUMO Report

• MS Teams Incident: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBndjo-r1mz9dpyOlv3JwWkzbD9WF71YWb3Oate27t4/edit#heading=h.vqzbyd717gqm - Checking for inbound
• Mobile: Android - Tracking reports from users noting the app is slow when loading websites or scrolling on Android
• Mobile: iOS - General crash reports on iOS are still persistent although we are noticing lower volume compared to previous versions
• Mobile: Focus - Users reporting that the screen is grayed out when viewing something in landscape mode. noted Fixed in V109.2 and we are confirming this resotion with users
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811549#c15
  • We saw a LOT of feedback on this to the android-marketplace-notices list as well, including some people confirming that v109.2 fixed it for them

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx109 retro Tues 14-Feb @ 8am PT
  • Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WlUs8KW8M9WRAZRE6VTauMvHrJ25jHY0_PFfUtfmZME/edit