Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-10-05

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

dmeehan, abodea, mlobontiuroman, dpop, ailea, apetridean, mchiorean, oardelean, ljanos, Aryx, gnichita, aflorinescu, atrif, vlucaci, RyanVM, bmaris, epopescu, cbaica, phorea, tzsoldos, btot

Schedule Update

• 118
  • Desktop and Mobile planned dot release scheduled for next week
    • gtb on Monday 2023-10-09 and go-live on Tuesday 2023-10-10
• 119
  • Desktop 119.0b5 rolled out on 2023-10-04 @ 100%
  • Android 119.0b5 bumped to 100% on 2023-10-05
  • Desktop 119.0b6 gtb on 2023-10-06 @ 100% rollout
  • Android 119.0b6 gtb on 2023-10-06 @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% on Monday 2023-10-09 pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 119.0b6 gtb on 2023-10-05
    • Adding External Testers on 2023-10-06 pending QA sign-off
  • Tomorrow 2023-10-06 is the end of early beta
• 120
  • no updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.41% == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.01

Beta

crash incidence: 1.10% (pp), crash rate: 1.50

Release

crash incidence: 0.68%, crash rate: 1.02

• Crash in [@ nsIFrame::HasAnyStateBits]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857241
  • frequency increase after very low frequency for a short time

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Nightly 120.0a1 Crash in [@ nsPresContext::GetPresShell]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857251

Focus

QA

Nightly

[aflorinescu]

• Nightly 120 WebRTC testing - in progress, no new issues found

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

[aflorinescu]

• Beta 119 regression testing (round 2) - in progress, no concerns so far.
• Beta 119 antivirus testing - in progress, no concerns so far
• Beta 119 feature pre-release testing - in progress, the reports will be sent until Oct 11, eod

Mobile

• Android

[dpop]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 119.0b5 - status GREEN
    • Beta 119.0b4 - status GREEN
    • Beta 119.0b3 - status GREEN
    • RC 118.1.1 build 1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2110] - Testing the compatibility of the top 100+ websites in Kenya via Fx on Android - testing in progress
    • [QA-1989] & [QA-1990] - Fakespot shopping experience - testing in progress
    • [QA-2104] - New Android package for Fenix: Android App Bundles - in progress

• iOS

[Andrei]

• • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v119 (34673) Beta 3 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v119 (34704) Beta 4 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v119 (34772) Beta 5 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v118.1 (34739) - GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • QA-1994 - Fakespot Integration - Mobile iOS Core Shopping bottom sheet - Testing In progress
    • QA-1995 - Fakespot Integration - Mobile iOS Shopping Discovery - Testing In Progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)