Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2022-11-08

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, pascalc, dsmith, telin, RyanVM, JR Johnson, afischer, dveditz, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 106
  • Desktop 106.0.4 @ 25% rollout on 2022-11-03
  • Desktop 106.0.5 @ 25% rollout and 100% of 106.0.4 users on 2022-11-04, bumped to 100% rollout on 2022-11-05
  • There are no dot releases planned before 107 go-live
• 107
  • Desktop 107.0 RC1 @ 100% on the beta channel
  • Android Fenix/Focus 107.1.0 @ 5% rollout in the Google Play Store
  • iOS Focus 107.0 pending one potential PR merge before branching
  • Reminder: Today is the release notes deadline
  • Reminder: 107 go-live next week on 2022-11-15
• 108
  • Soft Code Freeze Nov 10
  • Few top crashes over the weekend (see below)
  • Merge Day is Nov 14th!
  • Beta QA schedule might change, waiting on QA due to Romanian Holiday

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

mc2 crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.54% (-0.03pp compared to previous week) == back to normal level, crash rate (crashes/active hour for crashing profiles): 1.76 (-0.09)

• 3 frequent crashes over the weekend, all resolve by backout
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799208
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799278
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799252

Beta

mc2 crash incidence: 0.92% (-0.44pp), crash rate: 2.10 (+0.15)

Release

mc2 crash incidence: 0.83% (-0.15pp), crash rate: 1.70 (-0.12)

mc1 crash rate: ()

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• Fx102esr – 102.5.0esr-build1 in testing, no concerns so far

Nightly

• New features 
  • [QA-1644] Picture-in-Picture Enhancements – Nightly testing milestone (Nov 4) missed, feature may end up getting tested only during Beta 108
• Regression testing
  • Accessibility testing in progress – 2 new regressions: 1799491 (S3), 1799460 (S4)
  • Pre-merge regression testing on track to start Thursday/Nov 10th

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Build validation – 107.0.0-build1 functional and update tests (beta, localtest) passed, no concerns so far
• Regression testing
  • Core regression testing (3 of 3) signed off Green – 1 new regression: 1799092 (S3)
  • Tier 1 top sites testing signed off Green – 1 new defect, not a recent regression: 1797303 (S3)

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 107 Beta
  • No Challenged or at risk features identified
  • Looking good ahead of Release next week
• Firefox 108 Nightly
  • No Challenged or at risk features identified
  • Feature updates coming in. No call outs for late landings or planned uplifts in Beta 108.

SUMO Report

• I would say this is a pretty healthy Major Release in terms of disruption, except for some unexpected desktop incidents and iOS crashing issues
• Sent tabs from desktop are not opened on iOS if the user taps to open the tab from the notification screen: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799097
• Sponsored Tiles on Mobile Design Regression: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1brA7BQIObLOOsdf_9lJW3VAPh68AzCu1xrgcpGDnPak/edit#heading=h.w9edl0qyae9u
• Performance and crashing issues on iOS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1brA7BQIObLOOsdf_9lJW3VAPh68AzCu1xrgcpGDnPak/edit#heading=h.w9edl0qyae9u

Roundtable & Special Topics

• https://whattrainisitnow.com now points to our release schedule

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)