Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-10-19

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, ailea, mlobontiuroman, oardelean, ljanos, atrif, pascalc, abodea, aflorinescu, btot, mchiorean, Aryx, tzsoldos, amocirean, cbaica, RyanVM, dpop, asoncutean

Schedule Update

• 118
  • No dot release planned before 119.0 go-live
• 119
  • Desktop and Android Fenix/Focus 119.0 RC2 builds today
  • iOS Firefox/Focus 119.0 phased rollout starts on 2023-10-23 @ 02:00 UTC
  • 119.0 release notes are ready
  • Next week is 119 go-live on 2023-10-24
• 120
  • Nightly soft code freeze has started
  • Nightly string freeze starts on 2023-10-20
  • Merge day and 120.0b1 on 2023-10-23

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.02%

Beta

crash incidence: 0.89%

Release

crash incidence: 0.62%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

[ailea]

• Nightly 120 pre-merge smoke testing - in progress. No concerns.
• Nightly 120 search regression testing - in progress. No concerns.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

• Android
• [Mira]
  • Build sign-offs for Fenix & Focus:
    • Beta 119.0b9 - status GREEN
    • RC 119.0 build 1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-1900] Open PDFs with Fenix - in progress
    • [QA-1989] & [QA-1990] Fakespot Integration Shopping Experience - status GREEN on Nightly 120
    • [QA-2104] New Android package for Fenix: Android App Bundles - in progress
    • [QA-2110] Compatibility of the top 100+ websited in Kenya - status GREEN on Firefox 118.2.0
    • [QA-2124] Simplified Nav & Data Clearance - preliminary RED status on Nightly 120
    • [QA-2133] Review checker on Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de - in progress
    • [QA-2146] Cross Platform Enhanced Suggest - in progress
    • [QA-2153] Passkeys through Google Password Manager on Android - testing in Nightly 120 in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v119 (35222) RC 1 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v119 (35097) Beta 9 - GREEN
    • Firefox Focus v119 (17290) - RC 1 - GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • QA-1994 - Fakespot Integration - Mobile iOS status Yellow on Nightly.

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Friday is a Mozilla wellness day (Oct 20)

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

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