Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-01-13

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, dsmith, bittin,vlucaci , atrif, mchiorean, csasca, mlobontiuroman, phorea, dmeehan, cbaica, aflorinescu, ajoltan, obotisan, lapahidean, JR, btot, sbadau,

Schedule Update

• Desktop 96.0 updates unthrottling today(?)
  • Dot release still in the works, multiple ride alongs including incident patches
• Focus 96 rollout halted due to concerns about TCP
  • Hoping a decision is made today about how to proceed

• Desktop & DevEdition 97.0b3 gtb today
• Fenix 97.0.0-beta.1 build was delayed due to multiple issues

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.75% (+0.13pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.85 (-0.94)

mc1 crash rate: N/A (due to mass crasher below)

• hang affecting Firefox across versions earlier today
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749910
  • root cause fixed
  • retrospective TBD

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.74% (+0.82pp), crash rate: 3.42 (+1.52) - this is for 97.0b1 which has low usage volume and the increase only affects Linux, likely will be gone in later betas

mc1 crash rate: N/A

• no new bugs with significant impact except the one mentioned for Nightly

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.07% (+/-0pp), crash rate: 1.51 (-0.15)

mc1 crash rate: N/A

• no new bugs with significant impact except the one mentioned for Nightly

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• [phorea]
• Preliminary testing for 97 Beta features is in progress
• Antivirus testing is in progress
• 1st round of regression testing - in progress (ETA 1/14/2022)

Mobile

• [Mira]
• Fenix RC 96.1.1 - status GREEN
• Focus RC 96.1.1 - status GREEN
• Focus Beta 97.0.0-beta.1 - status YELLOW
• Fenix Beta 97.0.0-beta.1 - testing in progress - sign-off by tomorrow EOD

Action items

• Follow up with Amedyne on Focus Release

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)