Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-28

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

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Schedule Update

• 120
  • Android 120.0.1 rolled out at 25%
  • iOS Firefox 120.2 is live in a phased rollout
  • We are planning on building a Desktop/Android dot release this week to address an incident
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1867035, will take ridealongs
    • Although we have no exact date for this rollout, this will replace the planned December 5th dot release
• 121
  • 121.0b4 live @ 100% rollout across all platforms/channels
  • 121.0b5 gtb tomorrow
• 122
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 3.12% (+0.30pp compared to previous week)

• Crash in [@ cubeb_coreaudio::backend::buffer_manager::BufferManager::new] contributes to elevated rate
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866014

Beta

crash incidence: 1.55% (-0.15pp)

Release

crash incidence: 0.83% (+0.19pp - early in release cycle)

Affects all branches:

• macOS 12: sometimes crashes when files get opened/launched (?) [@ libsystem_kernel.dylib@0x7ffe ] - macOS beta version, haik reached out to Apple
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866778

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Release 120 incident: Users reporting persistent startup delay after Firefox 120 update
  • Add-ons QA tried to reproduce https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1866409 on Ubuntu and Windows, but were unable to
  • Desktop QA is trying to reproduce https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1866409 on Fedora

Nightly

• New features – Currently in planning, code expected to land in full by Dec 1st for any feature that requires Nightly 122 testing
• Recurring testing – WebRTC testing in progress

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – Beta 121 preliminary reports provided, Beta 121 pre-release testing started
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2123 – Received a Red beta preliminary report, however this feature is disabled by default in Fx121
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2107 – Received a Yellow beta preliminary report, a patch is in the works for the high impact bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1865815
• Recurring testing
  • Beta 121 smoke testing complete – 2 new bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=1866005,1866234 (S3-S4)
  • Beta 121 functional testing (W1) complete – no new bugs
  • Beta 121 top site web compatibility testing complete – no new bugs
  • Beta functional testing (W2) in progress

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• QA located in Romania will be on holiday for 2 days this week – Thu, Nov 30 (St. Andrew's Day) and Fri, Dec 1 (Great Union Day)

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)