Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-12-14

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, dbarladeanu, abodea, Aryx, dmeehan, dbodea, apetridean, dsmith, dpop, mciure, mlobontiuroman, dlucaci, sbadau, oardelean, mboldan, epopescu,pascalc, csasca, obotisan,mchiorean, phorea, dveditz, atrif,

Schedule Update

• 120
  • No planned dot release before 121 go live
• 121
  • Desktop 121.0 RC1 live on Beta @ 100%, no respin drivers
  • Fenix/Focus/Klar Android 121.0 RC1 live @ 5%, RC2 respin coming today for S22 incident
  • Firefox iOS 121.0 RC1 pushed to External Testers, phased rollout scheduled for Sunday
  • Focus iOS 121.0 RC2 phased rollout scheduled for Sunday
• 122
  • Nightly soft code freeze has started
    • String freeze starts tomorrow
  • Merge Day and 122.0b1 gtb next week on Monday 2023-12-18

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

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

• Quality metrics all on track for next week's release

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.57% (-0.37pp compared to previous week)

Beta

crash incidence: 1.41% (-0.52pp)

• [@ OOM | unknown | js::AutoEnterOOMUnsafeRegion::crash_impl | js::gc::AllocateCellInGC]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472062
  • crash count increase over the last weeks
  • under investigation but now stalled (?)

Release

crash incidence: 0.78% (-0.06pp)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Crash in [@ mozilla.appservices.fxaclient.FxaException$SyncScopedKeyMissingInServerResponse: at mozilla.appservices.fxaclient.FfiConverterTypeFxaError.read(fxa_client.kt)] "The sync scoped key was missing"
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869134
  • fixed in affected branches

Focus

QA

Nightly

[dbodea]

• Nightly 122 pre-merge smoke testing - in progress. No concerns.
• Nightly 122 search regression testing - in progress. No concerns.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

[apetridean]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
  • Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 121.0b9 - status GREEN
    • RC 120.1.1 build 1 - status GREEN
    • RC 121.0 build 1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2133] Review checker on Amazon.fr, and Amazon.de - status GREEN on Nightly 122
    • [QA-2171] Shopping Catch All for v121 given we don't yet know what exactly is prioritized for 121 yet [Android] - in progress
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - in progress
    • [QA-2211] DMA choice screen QA for Fenix - in progress

[Andrei]

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v121 (36721) Beta 9 - GREEN
    • Firefox iOS v121 (36782) RC 1 - GREEN
    • Focus iOS v121 (17455) - RC 1 - RED
    • Focus iOS v121 (17465) - RC 2 - GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • QA-2199 - iOS Review Checker Ads

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 121 Beta
  • No challenged or at risk features at this time!
• Firefox 122 Nightly
  • No challenged or at risk features at this time!
  • Allow users to Highlight & Comment on PDF & Support highlighting in PDFs slipped to Fx123 as the work was simply not ready in time to ship with Fx122

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Retrospective for Fx120 scheduled for December 19, invites sent
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mFrI0pl0x1_ExRIVPkY-p6HkQ6jjL__F6n99W1ZzGLs/edit#heading=h.2x9ye1c9tutp