Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-11-22

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, afischer, RyanVM, dsmith, telin, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 107
  • Currently there is no dot release driver for 107.
  • Reminder: Planned desktop and mobile dot release is scheduled for release next week release on 2022-11-29. Please submit uplift requests by EOD on 2022-11-25.
  • Preparing an iOS Focus dot release for this week.
• 108
  • 108.0b5 gtb today
  • Desktop/DevEdition 108.0b4 & Fenix 108.0b3 shipped on 2022-11-20
  • Focus 108.0b3 went live on 2022-11-22 with crash fix
  • End of Early Beta 2022-11-25
• 109
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.71% (+0.10pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.96 (+0.24) - normal levels

• Crash in [@ mozilla::MediaDecoderStateMachine::StateObject::Crash]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799826
  • has a patch

• Crash in [@ std::sys::windows::fs::impl$13::next]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799442
  • supposed to get fixed by removal of the function usage in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1801767

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 1.61% (+0.70pp), crash rate: 1.98 (-0.35) - back to normal levels

• Crash in [@ mozilla::a11y::RemoteAccessibleBase<T>::SizeOfIncludingThis]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800582
  • waiting on uplift request

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.70% (-0.03pp), crash rate: 1.29 (-0.37) - normal levels

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Nightly

• Top Crash in [@ mozilla::MediaDecoderStateMachine::StateObject::Crash]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799826
  • has a patch

• org.webrtc.SurfaceEglRenderer crash in [@ android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView(ViewRootImpl.java)]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799996

• Crash in [@ NS_CycleCollectorSuspect3 | nsCycleCollectingAutoRefCnt::incr<T>]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1801879
  • dholbert works on finding the regressing change

Focus

QA

Nightly

• New features
  • [QA-1667] Opera/Opera GX/Vivaldi Migrators is trending Yellow as a result of Bug 1800917 (S2)
  • [QA-1652] Introducing Additional Metrics for Product Insights will ship pref’d off with Fx109, pref’d on likely with Fx110
• Regression testing
  • WebRTC testing signed off Green (no new bugs)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features
  • [QA-1644] Picture-in-Picture Enhancements is Challenged from a schedule standpoint since it’s not landed yet and the team will not have sufficient time to conduct the Beta 108 preliminary testing for it
• Build validation – 108.0b2, 3 and 4 signed off Green, the snap related issue (1800857) was also fixed
• Regression testing
  • Core regression testing (1 of 3) signed off Green – 2 new bugs (S3, regressions): 1800623, 1801061
  • Onboarding testing signed off Green – 2 new bugs (S3s): 1801650, 1801654 
  • Antivirus testing in progress – no concerns so far
  • Tier 1 top sites testing in progress – no concerns so far
  • Core regression testing (2 of 3) in progress – no concerns so far
• Question: 
  • Persist Search Terms in the Address bar
    • Is this S2 going to be fixed in 108 ? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1801602
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hQA82KaxHfn4nGX4kWtCUDHIQcYWyRluULN_nKNIEoY/edit as per this report bug this is affecting only bing and duckduckgo context menu searches

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 108 Beta
  • Welcome users with a video about Firefox and Mozilla listed as challenged due to last minute landings and a telemetry fix. Both of those have already been approved and uplifted so I suspect this will return to 'on track' with the teams next update.
  • Feature list remains light as we head toward end of year
• Firefox 109 Nightly
  • No challenged or at risk features reported
  • Suspect that Merge latest libwebrtc to mozilla-central may be considered challenged soon. Communication with external party is uncharacteriscally quiet. Could be due to year end holiday schedules.
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1790097 landed at the beginning of the cycle
  • Several other forecasted features appear to be either considered 'new' or 'defining'. Considering we are 1 week into the Nightly cycle it's likely we'll see some of this work slip from 109.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Looking for a sense of how we feel about the Release notes process. Previously it felt like a struggle for content but seems to be getting better with Gabrielle driving?
• How concerned are we with the 2023 mobile OKRs stating that we will start shipping weekly in Q1 2023?

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 106 retro was held today https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TvOhrLYnZZdVLmgtIURSgDXW6KKJFpZjquKSKoiOwx4/edit