Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-05-02

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

RyanVM, telin, dsmith, pascalc, dmeehan, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 112
  • No dot release plans before 113 goes live next week
• 113
  • Desktop 113.0 RC1 is live on Beta @ 100% rollout
  • ESR 102.11 RC ready for QA
  • Fenix/Focus Android 113.0 RC1 live on Production @ 5% rollout
  • Firefox/Focus iOS 113.0 RC on TestFlight for QA
• 114
  • Nightly soft freeze starts Thursday, 4-May

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• Crash rate appears to have gone back down to expected levels. It was noted by alissy that the utility process crash spike we were seeing also went away.
• Nothing else of note. Things looking good for next week's release.

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.83%

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.82%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• 113.0-build1, 102.11.0esr-build1 – Testing in progress, no concerns so far

Nightly

• New features – Nightly reports shared last Friday, with a few postponed to today
  • A few trending Yellow: QA-1826 (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1826), QA-1794 (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1794)and QA-1630(https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1630)
  • One trending Red: QA-1634 (https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1634)
• Regression testing
  • Top sites testing complete – 1 new bug: 1830289 (S4)
  • Search regression testing – starts soon
  • Pre-merge regression testing – starts May 4

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – Pre-release sign offs shared last Wednesday, all features trending Green
• Regression testing
  • Core regression testing (3 of 3) complete – 1 new bug: 1830307 (S3, regression)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 113 (beta)
  • No challenged or at risk features reported
  • [Release Method] Weather Suggestions: Experiment for Suggest Users pushed to Fx114
• Firefox 114 (nightly)
  • No challenged or at risk features reported
  • Native Fullscreen on macOS slipped to Fx115 while the team continues to work through CI failures with this feature. Team could have this completed by soft code freeze but shifted forecast due to the lateness in the cycle.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx112 retrospective scheduled for Tuesday May 9th