Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-01-27

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, ajoltan, atrif, ljanos, snegritas, phorea, Aryx, Pascal,vlucaci,oardelean, lapahidean, mboldan

Schedule Update

• Fx96
  • Desktop 96.0.3 live @ 25% rollout
  • Desktop ESR91.5.1 live @ 100% rollout
  • Fenix/Focus 96.3.0 live @ 25% rollout
  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0.3/releasenotes/
• Fx97
  • 97.0b9 gtb today
  • Fenix/Focus 97.0.0-beta.5 live @ 100%
  • RC week next week

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

• MissionControl v1 metrics lower than they should be: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751861
  • no progress

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.83% (-0.06pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.82 (-0.12)

mc1 crash rate: 1.81 crashes/1k usage hours (-0.38)

• use-after-poison in [@ mozilla::RDL::ClearPreviousItems] - web painting crash
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751965
  • only enabled by default in Nightly, assigned to developer

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.93% (-0.29pp), crash rate: 1.79 (-0.07)

mc1 crash rate: 1.34 (-0.31)

• Startup Crash in [@ mozilla::URLPreloader::ReadCache] after "MOZ_DIAGNOSTIC_ASSERT(false) (Entry should be new and not in any list)"
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1724336
  • smaug investigates

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.26% (+0.07pp), crash rate: 1.43 (+0.23)

mc1 crash rate: 0.51 (-0.13)

• crashes with ESET antivirus
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1748490
  • new version of ESET is live, Sebastian will monitor crash reports for downwards trend of incoming crash reports

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[rdoghi]

• 3rd round of Regression testing - In Progress
• 97 Beta Feature Pre-Release testing - Done

Mobile

[ajoltan]

• Firefox 97.0.0 beta.3 [GREEN]
• Firefox 97.0.0-beta.4 [GREEN]
• Firefox 97.0.0-beta.5 [GREEN]
• Firefox 96.3.0 [GREEN]

• Focus 97.0.0-beta.3 [GREEN]
• Focus 97.0.0-beta.4 [GREEN]
• Focus 97.0.0-beta.5 [GREEN]
• Focus 96.3.0 [GREEN]

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• FYI: new @relman alias on slack to contact the release management team

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx96 retro next Tuesday (Feb. 1)