Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-03-14

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, dsmith, dbarladeanu, dmeehan, dpop, vtamas,epopescu, atrif, ljanos, mboldan, csasca, pascalc, mcacciapaglia, asoncutean,

Schedule Update

• 123
  • No update
• 124
  • Mobile 124.0 RC2 live in the Google/Samsung play store @ 5% rollout
  • ESR 115.9 RC2 built yesterday, QA approved
  • Go live for Fx124 is 2024-03-19
• 125
  • Nightly soft code freeze has started
    • String freeze starts tomorrow
  • Merge Day and 125.0b1 gtb next week on Monday 2024-03-18
  • Android repo migration is happening on Monday after the Gecko 126 version bump

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

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

Desktop Stability

Nightly

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

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp)

Release

crash incidence: % (pp)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

[mboldan]

• Nightly 125 pre-merge smoke testing in progress. No concerns.
• Nightly 125 search testing in progress. No concerns.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

[dpop]

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 124.0b9 - status GREEN
    • RC 124.0 build 1 - status GREEN
    • RC 124.0 build 2 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - Nightly testing in progress
    • [QA-2258] Android Toolbar Redesign - test cases sent for review
    • [QA-2331] Feature configuration testing for "toolbar" - in progress

[dbarladeanu]

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Focus iOS 124 (39519) - Sanity Check - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 123.4 (39582) - Dot release 4- status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 124 (39587) - Beta 9 - status [RED]
    • Firefox iOS 124 (39709) - RC - status [GREEN]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA - 2148 Enhanced Cross-Platform Suggest - testing results sent
    • QA - 2320 - Customization Onboarding Cards - test case creation in progress
    • QA - 2306 iOS Address Autofill - Phase 1 - test case creation in progress
    • QA - 2319 Login/Password Autofill Improvements - test case creation in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

• 124
  • Fundamentals Enhancements: Browser Interaction Speed Perception/Responsiveness [Speed v1] is currently targeting Fx124 and marked as challenged due to resource constraints that have blocked this work for the past several releases.
  • Allow users to Highlight on PDF deferred to Fx125 as an accessibility issue affecting voice over reading was discovered. The team is working to debug.
    • notified https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1867830 that the changes need to be for 125
  • Pull-to-refresh has been re-enabled by default on Android. This is a popular user request and a feature parity issue with Chrome (and Safari), but caused some website bugs.
• 125
  • TLS Error Page Reduction, Phase 1 deferred to Fx127 as the engineer working on this went out on leave.
  • CSSLoader OnStopRequest - OMT slipped to Fx126. While development is progressing well, we have been addressing tests failures and coordinating reviews and will not make it into Fx125
  • Android Web Translations on track for Fx125.

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Next week is release week + pwn2own, expect a chemspill

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 123 retrospective on March 26 (invites will be sent tomorrow)