Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-09-05

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, dmeehan, pascalc, dsmith, Aryx, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 117
  • Desktop 117.0 live @ 100%. Starting to round up fixes for next week's planned dot release.
  • Fenix/Focus/Klar for Android 117.0.1 planned dot release live @ 25%
  • Firefox for iOS 117.1 planned dot release phased rollout started today, but 117.2 is coming Very Soon Now
    • Missed uplift for tab loss issue fixed in v116.x releases causing some problems to re-appear
• 118
  • Beta 4 rolled out yesterday, gtb for beta 5 today
  • No notable issue, only blocker is an Audio crash
• 119
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.84%

• Crash in [@ mozilla::layers::CanvasEventRingBuffer::SetNewBuffer]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851636
  • regressing bug identified, developer needinfoed

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.67%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• Regression testing – Nightly 119 WebRTC testing started
• New feature testing – Nightly 119 testing scheduled to start next week, reports will be provided by end of Sep 15th EEST

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 118.0b3, 118.0b4 signed off: 1 new bug (S4) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851125
• Regression testing
  • Beta 118 regression testing (1 of 3) complete – 3 new bugs (S3s): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=1850561,1850716,1850726
  • Beta 118 top site web compat testing complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 118 regression testing (2 of 3) in progress
  • Beta 118 antivirus testing started
• New feature testing – Beta 118 preliminary testing in progress (reports will be provided by end of Sep 6th EEST); Beta 118 pre-release testing starts Sep 7th (reports scheduled by end of Sep 13th EEST)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Our 2024 Firefox Releases calendar is published:

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)