Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2024-04-11

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, dsmith, RyanVM, tzsoldos, csasca, abodea,dlucaci, mlobontiuroman, ljanos, epopescu, pascalc, phorea, atrif, gnichita, btot, dbarladeanu, Aryx, apetridean,

Schedule Update

• 124
  • No dot release planned before Fx125 go-live
• 125
  • Desktop 125.0 RC1 live on beta @ 100% rollout
    • We potentially have a RC2 respin today, depending on how the investigation of bug 1890764 goes
  • ESR 115.10 pending release
  • Android Fenix/Focus 125.0 live on play store @ 5% rollout
  • iOS Firefox/Focus 125.0 scheduled to start phased rollout at 03:00 UTC on 2024-04-14
    • There is ongoing discussion on the release quality of Firefox iOS 125.0 RC2. We plan to have an RC3 later today.
    • Firefox iOS RC2 is valid a release candidate if there are problems found in RC3.
  • Next week is Fx125 go-live on 2024-04-16
• 126
  • Nightly soft code freeze has started
    • String freeze starts tomorrow
  • Merge Day and 126.0b1 gtb next week on Monday 2024-04-15
    • Android betas will build from mozilla-beta

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

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

• Trying to figure out if bug 1890764 needs to block the release and drive an RC respin
• A couple other high-severity bugs which missed the RC but can wait for a dot release

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 0.74% - only 1/3 of the usual volume, to be investigated

Beta

crash incidence: 1.81%

Release

crash incidence: 1.01%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• Nightly 126 pre-merge smoke testing in progress. No concerns.
• Nightly 126 search testing in progress. No concerns.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
    • Beta 125.0b9 - status GREEN
    • RC 125.0 build 1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-2218] Website Translations for Fenix on Android - in progress
    • [QA-2258] Android Toolbar Redesign - in progress

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS 125 (40470) - Beta 9 - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 125 (40641) - Release candidate1 - status [RED]
    • Focus iOS 125 (40635) - Release candidate - status [GREEN]
    • Firefox iOS 125 (40694) - Release candidate 2- status [YELLOW]
  • Feature Testing
    • QA - 2320 - Customization Onboarding Cards - testing in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Tomorrow is a Mozilla Wellness Day

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx124 retro scheduled for Tuesday 2024-04-16 at 16:00 UTC