Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-11-30

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

pascal, Aryx, telin, afischer, RyanVM,dmeehan,jr,dsmith, vbalducci, dveditz

Schedule Update

• Desktop 95 RC1 shipped yesterday at 100%
• Fenix/Focus 95 RC1 should ship tomorrow
• No driver for a RC2 at the moment

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.37% (+0.10pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.07 (-0.29)

mc1 crash rate: 3.78 crashes/1k usage hours (-0.57)

• [@ handle_response | _XEventsQueued]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743569
  • only 1-2 crashing installations per Nightly but 5+ different machines for the last week, all AMD

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 0.44% (pp), crash rate: 3.51 () - unreliable data, 95.0 RC1 just rolled out and adoption is below 1%

mc1 crash rate: 3.67 (-0.22)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.23% (-0.34pp), crash rate: 1.23 (-0.03)

mc1 crash rate: 2.29 (-0.10)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• ESR 91.4.0-build1 validation in progress, no new issues found so far

Nightly

• Accessibility validation done, new issues are minor, out of the known issues one is an S2 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1714766

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• RC1 95.0-build1 validation started

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 95 Beta
  • TCP Opt-In (Continuous Onboarding) remains challenged pending a leadership Go/No-Go. If we decide to move forward this onboarding work will be rolled out to Release gradually via Nimbus (beginning with 10%). No need for additional uplifts.
  • All other features reported 'On track' with no known uplifts inbound
• Firefox 96 Nightly
  • Onboarding - Colorway spotlight upgrade is still in the design phase. No work has landed. Still targeting Fx96 but seems likely to slip.
  • Remove about:ion page from Firefox unlikely to make soft code freeze. Team is still targeting Fx96. Will likely require an uplift request in Beta.
  • Improve storage limits and estimations expected to have additional patches landing before soft code freeze
  • Implement Process Selection for Fission-Limited-Version removed from Fx96 Forecast as we are mostly tracking work that is landing pref'd OFF. Plans to enable have not been established.
  • Service Worker NavigationPreloadManager API slipped to Fx97 as the implementation work won't be completed before soft code freeze and it's too big to uplift into the beta cycle.

SUMO Report

• Desktop Release Report: https://mailchi.mp/mozilla/firefox-94-week-3-release-report
• Mobile MR2 Release Report: https://mailchi.mp/mozilla.com/firefox-mobile-mr2-week-3-sumo-release-report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Fx95 retro probably in January because of EOY holidays

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx94 retro notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGLFKsZ6hlY5Eizd0OxbKR4X3bgXVVyHpUlztHbxjTI/edit?usp=sharing