Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-06-06

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, telin, pascalc,taniam, Aryx, JR Johnson, RyanVM, dsmith, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 114
  • Shipped today at 25%
  • Associated ESR 102.12.0 shipped at 100%
  • Android 114 updates currently halted as we investigate the impact in some regions of a crash.
    • Potential dot release this week as we have a fix
    • Updates currently blocked for Android 5 users for a startup crash, we have a fix coming in a dot release
  • Focus 114 Android at 25%
  • Firefox iOS 114 and Focus iOS shipped on a phased one week rollout
• 115
  • Desktop and Android Fenix/Focus 115.0b1 is live at 25%
  • Desktop 115.0b2 gtb today at 50% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 115.0b2 gtb today and 50% rollout tomorrow pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 115.0b1 ready for QA
• 116
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.60%

• frequent UI localization / Firefox Translations crash https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1836753
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1836753

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.74%

• Linux printing crashes on Arch and EndeavourOS Linux caused by CUPS printer library crash, fix by emilio on their side and new version released
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1836764

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• RC3 114.0 – Update tests on `release-cdntest` and `release` Green
• RC1 102.12.0esr – Update tests on `esr` Green

Nightly

• New features – Currently in planning. QA requests are due this Friday

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 115.0b1-build3 Green
• New features – Preliminary testing starts Jun 8th, already started for some features
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1938 (late arrival) a bit behind schedule
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 115 pre-merge regression testing complete – 1 new bug: Bug 1836498 (S3)
  • Beta 115 core regression testing (1 of 3) started

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 115
  • No reported challenged or at risk features by their owners
  • No significant changes or slippages from last week
• Firefox 116
  • Release mana page will be live by EOD today! 29 Jira issues already in the forecast

SUMO Report

• No noticable issues on the forum at this time. But this release Desktop had several updates so keeping a close eye on the forums.
• Will keep an eye out for the impact of the Android region crash over GPS reviews

Roundtable & Special Topics

• reminder: archive the notes after the meeting
• check if these notes are from previous meeting before editing them
• is anybody archiving or exporting stability data from the stability dashboard for other uses?
• Don't forget to update your Fx weekly digest areas. See: #fx-weekly-digest

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)