Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-07-12

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, dsmith, afischer, pascalc,

Schedule Update

• Release 102
  • Fenix 102.2.1 shipped yesterday at 25% rollout, bumped to 100% rollout today
  • ESR 102.0.1 ships tomorrow (port of last week 102.0.1 patches to the new ESR branch)
• Beta 103
  • 103.0b8 GTB tonight @ 100% rollout
  • Reminder: This is the final week of beta for 103, the last beta build is on Thursday, July 14. Next week is RC week.
• Nightly 104
  • GV bump on nightly Android Components issue is now fixed
    • https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/relbot/pull/82

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.80% (+0.16pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.74 (-0.25)

• Crash in [@ mozilla::net::ConnectionEntry::~ConnectionEntry]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1777848
  • working on getting the reviewed patch landed while the patch author is away

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.72% (-0.20pp), crash rate: 2.04 (-0.22)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.81% (-0.05pp), crash rate: 1.41 (-0.16)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Build validation – Dot Release 102.0.1esr passed functional and cdntest update tests

Nightly

• Regression testing – Pre-merge regression testing on track to start late next week
• New features – Nightly 104 reports due this Friday/July 15th
  • [QA-1489] Stopping URL Manipulations in the Address Bar – Not fully landed yet, however QA is confident that at least part of the tests can be executed if there's reasonable time left in the Nightly 104 cycle
  • [QA-1170] New audio backend infrastructure on Mac – Has been moved to Fx105
  • [QA-1544] PDF editing – Nightly 104 testing trending Green so far

Aurora / Dev Edition

• Build validation – 103.0b5 signed off Green

Beta

• Build validation – 103.0b5, 103.0b6 and 103.0b7 signed off Green
• Regression testing – Antivirus testing and Core regression testing (2 of 3) signed off Green; End-to-end testing in progress
• New features – Pre-release sign offs due tomorrow/July 13th
  • [QA-1516] Subtitles settings in PiP window and site-specific wrappers – On Track (previously Challenged), pre-release testing is trending Green so far
  • [QA-1515] Pin Firefox to taskbar on Win10/11 with the installer – On Track, pre-release testing is trending Green so far

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)