Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-10-10

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

dsmith, dmeehan, RyanVM, Pascal, Aryx, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 118
  • Planned dot release Desktop 118.0.2 and Fenix/Focus 118.2.0 live at 25% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% tomorrow pending stability
  • Firefox iOS 118.2 is built and pending QA validation
• 119
  • Desktop 119.0b8 gtb on 2023-10-11 @ 100% rollout
  • Android 119.0b8 gtb on 2023-10-11 @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% on 2023-10-12 pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 119.0b6 gtb on 2023-10-10
    • Adding External Testers on 2023-10-11 pending QA sign-off
  • Next week is RC week
  • Deadline for release notes is 2023-10-17
• 120
  • Soft Code Freeze 2023-10-19

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.96% (pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.58

Beta

crash incidence: 0.92% (pp), crash rate: 1.12

Release

crash incidence: 0.62% (pp), crash rate: 1.04

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Scheduled Dot Release 118.0.2-build2 signed off

Nightly

• New features – Nightly 120 testing in progress, test reports will be provided by Oct 13th eod EEST (for features landed on time)
• Regression testing – Nightly 120 top site web compatibility testing started

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – Beta 119 pre-release testing in progress, sign offs will be provided by Oct 11th eod EEST
• Build validation – 119.0b6, 119.0b7 signed off - 1 new bug found (S3, regression): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857927
• Regression testing
  • Beta 119 regression testing (2 of 3) complete – 1 new bug (S3, regression): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857253
  • Beta 119 antivirus testing complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 119 regression testing (3 of 3) started
  • Beta 119 end-to-end testing started

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• This meeting timing, should we change it?

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 118 retro Tuesday, October 24⋅17:00 – 17:45