Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-05-16

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, bittin, RyanVM, Aryx, tania, dsmith

Schedule Update

• 113
  • Desktop 113.0.1 live @ 100%
  • Fenix 113.1.0 live @ 25%
  • Firefox iOS 113.1 phased rollout started today
  • Gathering patches for next week's planned Desktop dot release. Unclear if there will be mobile releases or not yet.
• 114
  • Beta 5 today at 100%
  • Beta release notes in progress: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/114.0beta/releasenotes/
• 115
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• Open sec bugs will trend down soon once uplifts are done
• Crash rate is higher than usual due to high macOS crash rate

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.67%

Beta

• increased frequency for [@ mozilla::dom::quota::QuotaManager::Shutdown::$::operator()] at least on macOS
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588498

Release

crash incidence: 0.79%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• New features – Currently in late planning / test design stages

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 114.0b2, b3 and b4 signed off (no outstanding issues)
• New features – Beta preliminary testing on track, reports will be shared by May 17th
• Regression testing
  • Beta regression testing (1 of 3) complete – no new bugs
  • Beta tier1 top sites testing complete – no new bugs
  • Beta regression testing (2 of 3) in progress – no new bugs so far
  • Beta antivirus testing started

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Upcoming RO holidays
  • June 1st and June 5th are national holidays in Romania that will occur during Beta 114 W4 and Beta 115 W1 respectively. There are a few things that need to be called out:
    • Desktop QA needs the RC1 builds (release and esr) to be available no later than May 30th morning EEST, so that the team is able to sign them off by May 31st eod EEST
    • If RC2 builds will be created, Desktop QA will be able to sign them off by June 2nd eod EEST
    • Desktop QA will be able to sign off update tests for release-cdntest and esr-cdntest on June 6th morning EEST, and then continue later that same day on release and esr (as per usual)
• Thursday holiday for Pascal and Sebastian
• This meeting sometimes conflict with Desktop CPR meeting, there will be QA read-only updates on those days

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)