Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-06-20

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, dsmith, JR Johnson, dveditz, Aryx,Tania

Schedule Update

• 114
  • Desktop 114.0.2 and Android Fenix/Focus 114.2.0 released today @ 25% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% tomorrow pending stability monitoring
  • Firefox iOS 114.3 pending store review
• 115
  • Desktop 115.0b8 gtb today @ 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus 115.0b8 gtb today @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% after QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 115.0b8 gtb today
    • Adding External Testers after QA sign-off
  • Next week is RC week
  • Deadline for release notes is 2023-06-27
• 116
  • no updates
  • Merge day is 2023-07-04

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/254476293/Fx115+Status+Beta

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.57% (pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): ()

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

Release

crash incidence: 0.68% (pp), crash rate: ()

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• New features – Nightly 116 reports will be provided by end of Jun 23 EEST
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 116 WebRTC testing in progress – complete on the desktop side, no new bugs
  • Nightly 116 top sites testing started

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – Beta 115 pre-release sign offs will be provided by end of Jun 21 EEST
  • Heads-up: QA is currently blocked from conducting the pre-release testing on https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1816 and may not be able to provide a report by Jun 21
    • Issue - challenges with Google’s APIs no longer returning expected results. Engineering is following up with Google
• Build validation – 115.0b5, 115.0b6, 115.0b7 signed off - 3 new bugs (S3s): 1838798, 1838855, 1839132
• Regression testing
  • Beta 115 regression testing (2 of 3) complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 115 antivirus testing complete – 1 new bug: 1838804 (S3, Norton related)
  • Beta 115 regression testing (3 of 3) in progress
  • Beta 115 end-to-end testing in progress

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

• Android: Investigating inbound around Webpages not loading on Android in V114 and 114.1.1
  • Not sure if related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837869 [unreated actually]
• Desktop: Investigating impact of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839139 Crashes affecting users in the es-ar locale doing searches on Google
  • seems to be a Linux distribution bug for Hauyra GNU/Linux ( developed by Argentine government which explains the es-AR impact)

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)