Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2021-04-15

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

bittin, RyanVM, rpopovici, Aryx, abodea, ebalazs, lapahidean, ccomorasu, tzsoldos, cionce, mboldan, ajoltan, jcristau, dveditz, pascal, phorea, atrif, tbabos, btot, cbaica, snegritas,

Schedule Update

• No plans for 88.0rc2
• Fenix 88.1.0 (RC1) live on Google Play
• Focus 8.15.0 has crashes due to new AC release (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/4801)
  • Still deciding how to proceed

• Launch day is MONDAY next week
  • will push to CDN first thing monday morning (CEST)

• Nightly soft freeze has started
• Nightly string freeze is tomorrow

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash rate: 2.54 (+0.57 compared to previous week), crash incidence: 1.62% (+0.20pp)

mc1 crash rate: 5.69 (-1.23) crashes/1k usage hours

• updates halted because of crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1705392
  • new Nightly updates available ~17:30 UTC
  • use 20210414160838 if the content crashes are too problematic

• Crash in [@ mozilla::DOMEventTargetHelper::Release]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606347
  • 50-60 crashes/day on Nightly
  • increase likely from additional ingestion of Windows Error Reporting reports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682516

Beta

mc2 crash rate: 2.93 (+0.10), crash incidence: 1.23 % (-0.14pp)

mc1 crash rate: 6.10 (-1.01)

• Spike in [@ mozilla::a11y::NotificationController::CoalesceMutationEvents] (bug 1538991) in 88.0rc1

Release

mc2 crash rate: 1.41 (-0.06), crash incidence: 0.66% (-0.02pp)

mc1 crash rate: 1.38 (-0.14)

Mobile Stability

Fix Focus before it ships on Monday next week

Fenix

QA

Nightly

[rpopovici]

• [PI-959] Proton: Modals report will be sent this week with status Green
• Nightly 89 Regression testing - in Progress - ETA tomorrow (APR 16)

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

[lapahidean]

• • Firefox 88.0.0-beta.6 - signed off with status green
  • Firefox 88.1.0 RC1 - signed off with status green

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Post-Mortem (Tues 2wks from GA Release)