Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-08-31

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

dmeeehan, vlucaci, abodea, RyanVM, dpop, csasca, dsmith, bmaris, mlobontiuroman, mboldan, epopescu, tzsoldos, Aryx, atrif, btot, rpopovici,

Schedule Update

• 117
  • Desktop and Android 117.0 bumping to 100% today
  • Android and Firefox iOS planned dot release scheduled for Tuesday 2023-09-05
• 118
  • Desktop 118.0b3 gtb today @ 100% rollout
  • Android 118.0b3 gtb today @ 99% rollout
    • Bumping to 100% tomorrow pending QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 118.0b gtb today
    • Available to External Testers tomorrow pending QA sign-off
• 119
  • No updates

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence: 2.04%

Beta

• Crash in [@ JSContext::verifyIsSafeToGC] with ContentEventHandler
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1850938
  • could get worse in late beta (source: mccr8)

Release

crash incidence: 0.92% (pp)

• low volume startup Crash in [@ mozilla::freestanding::SharedSection::Layout::Resolve | mozilla::freestanding::SharedSection::EnsureWriteCopyViewOnce]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1850969

ESR

• Crash in mozilla::dom::BrowserChild::InitRenderingState
  • 15 crashes from 13 macOS installations, no actions planned because no release schedule for this branch
  • https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/signature/?product=Firefox&signature=mozilla%3A%3Adom%3A%3ABrowserChild%3A%3AInitRenderingState&date=%3E%3D2023-05-31T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&date=%3C2023-08-31T23%3A59%3A00.000Z&_columns=date&_columns=product&_columns=version&_columns=build_id&_columns=platform&_columns=reason&_columns=address&_columns=install_time&_columns=startup_crash&_columns=moz_crash_reason&_sort=-date&page=1#summary

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

Nightly

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• Beta 118 regression testing (round 1) - in progress, no concerns so far.
• Beta 118 top site web compat testing - completed, no new issues found
• Beta 118 feature preliminary testing - started today, the reports will be sent until September 6th, eod.

Mobile

[dpop]

• • Android
• Fenix 118.0b2 - GREEN
• Fenix 118.0b1 - GREEN
• Focus 118.0b2 - GREEN
• Focus 118.0b1 - GREEN
  • Feature Testing
• [QA-1978] - Support Nimbus experiments in pdf.js - in progress
• [QA-1989] - Fakespot Integration - Mobile Android Core Shopping bottom sheet - in progress
• [QA-1990] - Fakespot Integration - Mobile Android Shopping Discovery - in progress

[andrei]

• Firefox iOS v118 (33767) beta 1 - Sign-off [Green]
• Firefox iOS v118 (33781) beta 2 - Sign-off [Green]
  • Feature Testing
• Fakespot Integration - Mobile Core Shopping bottom sheet - in progress
• Fakespot Integration - Mobile Shopping Discovery - in progress

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Monday 2023-09-04 is a public holiday in the US and Canada

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx116 retrospective was held yesterday
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mpf4Zsh3fJdGFCVvlOPnTo_jBH9GBF5CbmTmA-QufJ8/edit#heading=h.2x9ye1c9tutp