Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-06-29

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, rpopovici, csasca, dmeehan, mchiorean, atrif, dpop, Aryx, gnichita, cbaica, mboldan, mlobontiuroman, pascalc, bmaris, asoncutean, RyanVM, apetridean,

Schedule Update

• 114
  • No dot release planned before 115.0 go-live
• 115
  • Next week is go-live for 115 on 2023-07-04
  • Desktop/Android 115.0 RC2 and ESR 115.0esr RC2 builds later today
  • ESR 102.13esr build pending QA
  • iOS Firefox 115.0 RC2 pending QA
  • iOS Focus 115.0 RC1 approved for release
  • Desktop 115.0, 115.0esr, and 102.13esr CDN push on 2023-07-04 in the European morning
• 116
  • Nightly soft code freeze has begun
  • Merge Day and 116.0b1 next week 2023-07-04
  • 116.0b2 gtb on Thursday 2023-07-06, we have one less beta during this cycle

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.65%

Beta

Release

crash incidence: 0.68%

• Startup Crash in [@ thin_vec::Header::len]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837700
  • not a top crash but some users/administrators commented, platform feature which triggers this identified

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

[rpopovici]

• [Fx115] RC1 115.0-build1 - functional and update(beta and release-localtests) tests completed
• [Fx115] RC2 115.0-build2 - to be tested tomorrow(web compatibility testing round) when build is available
• [Fx102esr] RC1 102.13esr-build1 - functional tests - in progress. No concerns so far
• [Fx115esr]
  • RC1 115.0esr - functional tests - in progress. No concerns so far
  • RC2 115.0esr - to be tested tomorrow(web compatibility testing round) when build is available

Nightly

• Nightly 116 pre-merge regression testing - in progress. No concerns so far
• Nightly 116 Search Regression Testing - in progress. No concerns so far.
• Nightly 116 Credential Management cross-platform integration testing- in progress. No concerns so far.

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

• [Mira]
  • Fenix
• RC 115.0 (build 1) [GREEN]
• Beta 115.0b9 [GREEN]
  • Focus
• RC 115.0 (build 1) [GREEN]
• Beta 115.0b9 [GREEN]

• • Feature testing:
• [QA-1929] - Fx CM compatibility with Third party add-ons/extensions - Exploratory testing work - In progress - sign-off by tomorrow EOD
• [QA-1947] - Tabs Tray UI rewrite - In progress
• [QA-1978] - Support Nimbus experiments in pdf.js - In progress
• [QA-1959] - In Browser Printing on Android - In progress
• [QA-1975] - Feature configuration testing for "splash screen" - in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Friday June 30th is a Canadian Holiday (observed Canada Day)
• Monday July 3rd is a Mozilla wellness day
• Tuesday July 4th is a US holiday
• Migration of Win 7/8/8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 users from Release to ESR was approved by leadership, will happen with the 115.1esr release on August 1
  • Beta users will be migrated on July 4

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)