Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-03-24

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

dpop, dmeehan, dsmith, pascalc, aflorinescu, lapahidean, phorea, btot, vlucaci, ljanos,cbaica ,snegritas,mchiorean, csasca, asoncutean

Schedule Update

• 98
  • Desktop 98.0.2 & Fenix/Focus/Klar 98.3.0 rolled out yesterday at 25%, bumping to 100% today
• 99
  • Desktop 99.0b8 gtb today - final beta of the cylce
  • Fenix/Focus 99.0b5 will be built after the 99.0b8 completes
  • Next week is RC week
• 100
  • Mobile nightly is back to normal
  • 100.0b9 schedule is in discussion

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.11% (+0.04pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.03 (-0.16)

• [Fixed] Crash in [@ malloc | mozilla::RetainedDisplayListBuilder::PreProcessDisplayList], [@ malloc | webrender_api::display_list::DisplayListBuilder::end]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1760847
  • fixed in Firefox 100 + 99, version 98 unaffected

• Crash in [@ mozilla::dom::FetchDriver::OnDataAvailable] with AdGuard
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761026
  • affects both desktop and mobile but the latter is much more affected (also with beta and release)
  • patch is pending review

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.33% (-0,49pp), crash rate: 2.10 (-0.17) - still elevate due issues on Linux

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.11% (-0.74pp), crash rate: 1.37 (-0.09) - back to normal

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Crash in [@ mozilla::a11y::TextAttrsMgr::GetAttributes]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761200

Focus

QA

Nightly

[btot]

• Nightly 100 feature reports - in progress. No concerns until now.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[btot]

• 3rd round of regression - in progress. No concerns until now

Mobile

[lapahidean]

• Fenix RC 98.3.0 - signed off with status green
• Fenix 99.0.0-Beta.4 - signed off with status green

• Focus RC 98.3.0 - signed off with status green
• Focus 99.0.0-Beta.4 - signed off with status green

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• 98 retro is not ready for next week, a schedule update will be provided in the next channel meeting

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)