Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-04-19

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

dsmith,bittin, Aryx, dmeehan, jr johnson, dveditz

Schedule Update

• 99
  • Currently there is no dot release driver
• 100
  • 100.0b7 live on 4-17
  • Fenix 100.0.0 Beta 6 and Focus 100.0.0 Beta 5 live @ 100%
  • 100.0b8 today
  • Last Beta 9 this Thursday!
  • no blockers at the moment
  • we backed out Bug 1738104 out of b6 which was causing crashes such as 1763893, 1762604 , spikes in 1696771 and 1761182. We decided to let the fixes ride the 101 train post backout
• 101
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.98% (-0.08pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 2.15 (+0.07)

• Crash in [@ webrender::render_api::RenderApi::send_transaction]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1761233
  • Potential fix in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1765366

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

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 2.16% (-0.92pp), crash rate: 1.97 (-0.03)

mc1 crash rate: ()

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 1.15% (+0.11pp), crash rate: 1.25 (-0.02)

mc1 crash rate: ()

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

• Nightly 101 feature testing is in progress, reports will be sent by end of Apr 21 in two days. The following features are currently trending Yellow (details at https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/x/TyisCQ):
  • QA-1345 - PBM entry points
  • QA-1170 - New audio backend infrastructure on Mac

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 100 end-to-end testing finalized (Green), regression testing round 3 in progress (Green forecast)
• Beta 100 feature pre-release sign offs are underway, reports will be sent by end of Apr 20 tommorow. The following features are currently trending Yellow (details at https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/x/TyisCQ):
  • QA-1445 - Windows Firefox default pdf handler
  • QA-1440 - Live language reloading general browser UI
  • QA-1428 - HDR Video Support for macOS

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

• Homescreen Crash: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/10474#discussion_r852443369
  • waiting on V99.1 for IOS to confirm resolved

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Tentativly targetting next week for the 99.0 retrospective