Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-12-16

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

RyanVM, dmeehan, ljanos, dpop, lapahidean, mlobontiu, phorea, cbadau, Aryx, csasca, obotisan, aflorinescu asoncutean, mchioreantbabos, atrif, cbaica

Schedule Update

• Desktop 95.0.1 & 91.4.1esr releases shipped
• Fenix & Focus 95.2.0 shipped

• Desktop & DevEdition 96.0b6 gtb today
  • Last early beta this cycle
• Fenix & Focus 96.0.0-beta.3 gtb today
• Normal Beta build cycle next week, no Betas during week of Dec. 27
• RC week January 3

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.54% (+0.38pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.55 (+0.42) - increase because content crashes were not taken into account last week

mc1 crash rate: 3.47 crashes/1k usage hours (-1.52)

• Frequent shutdown Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::serviceWorkerScriptCache::(anonymous namespace)::CompareNetwork::Abort] - fixed by backout (also for beta)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1745043

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.26% (+0.24pp), crash rate: 2.05 (-1.42) - back to normal levels

• expatDriver crashes from sandboxing - looks stuck, no action for last 2 (European business days)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1745239

mc1 crash rate: 3.64 (-3.45)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.08% (-0.08pp), crash rate: 1.64 (-0.12)

mc1 crash rate: 2.49 (-3.14)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[cbadau]

• Beta 96 feature pre-release sign offs - in progress
• 1st round of regression testing - in progress
• Antivirus testing - in progress

Mobile

[lapahidean]

• Fenix 96.0.0 Beta 2 - signed off with status green
• Fenix RC 95.2.0 - signed off with status green
• Focus 96.0.0 Beta 2 - signed off with status green
• Focus RC 95.2.0 - signed off with status green

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)