Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-08-29

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, RyanVM, dveditz, Aryx, telin

Schedule Update

• 117
  • Desktop 117.0 live @ 25% rollout. Throttling to 0% tomorrow per usual practice.
  • Desktop ESR 102.15.0 & 115.2.0 live @ 100% rollout
    • Final planned release for ESR102. Automatic updates to ESR115 will happen next cycle.
  • Android Fenix/Focus/Klar 117.0 live @ 25% rollout
  • iOS Firefox/Focus/Klar 117.0 gradual rollout started
• 118
  • Desktop and Android 118.0b1 live @ 25% rollout
  • Desktop 118.0b2 gtb on 2023-08-29 @ 50% rollout
  • Android 118.0b2 gtb on 2023-08-29
    • Rolling out to 50% on 2023-08-30 pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 118.0b1 available to External Testers
  • Firefox iOS 118.0b2 gtb on 2023-08-29
    • Available to External Testers on 2023-08-30 pending QA sign-off
• 119
  • Fx119 nightly cycle has started

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.54%

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.63%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Seeing a spike in EMPTY minidump crashes from Fenix since 116, appears to be pre-existing crashes now being submitted when they weren't before rather than a new spike

Focus

QA

• 117.0-build2 – updates signed off on `release`
• 115.2.0esr-build1, 102.15.0esr-build2 – updates signed off on `esr`

Nightly

• New features – Currently in the early planning stage, keeping an eye out for new requests by Sep 1st

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 118.0b1-build1 signed off (no new bugs)
• New features – Beta 118 preliminary reports scheduled by Sep 6th eod EEST, however the team may not be able to meet this deadline for the following features:
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2037 - code not landed yet
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-1794 - code not landed yet (may land by Sep 1st per Engineering)
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 118 pre-merge regression testing complete – 1 new bug (S3): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1850118
  • Beta 118 regression testing (1 of 3) started
  • Beta 118 top site web compatibility testing started

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 118
  • [Sidebar] Update FakeSpot opt-in UI with final images and strings slipped to Fx119 per a recent sprint planning session. Fx118 was optimistic, now targeting Fx119.
  • Update Survey UI in sidebar with final styles slipped to Fx119 per a recent sprint planning session. Fx118 was optimistic, now targeting Fx119.
  • Implement the three Fakespot feature callout messages slipped to Fx119 per a recent sprint planning session. Fx118 was optimistic, now targeting Fx119.
  • Implement :has() pseudo-class CSS Selector slipped to Fx119 as we weren't quite ready before Nightly soft code freeze
• Firefox 119
  • Release tracking confluence page will be live by EOD
  • We already have 48 tracked issues for Fx119. Volume of work was expected to be high as Fx119 is a target for Shopping and Fx S&P. That said, there's a bit of cleanup to be done here before we can call this list of work finalized.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 116 retrospective scheduled for 2023-08-30 @ 15:00 UTC