Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-10-17

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, taniam, RyanVM, pascalc, Aryx

Schedule Update

• 118
  • No dot release planned before 119.0 go-live
• 119
  • Desktop 119.0 RC1 live on beta @ 100% rollout
  • ESR 115.4 pending QA validation
  • Android Fenix/Focus 119.0 live on play store @ 5% rollout
  • iOS Firefox/Focus passed QA validation
  • Desktop 119.0 RC2 driver https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1859365
  • Deadline for 119.0 release notes is today
  • Next week is 119 go-live on 2023-10-24
• 120
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts on 2023-10-19
  • Nightly string freeze starts on 2023-10-20
  • Merge day and 120.0b1 on 2023-10-23

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/277284167/Beta+Quality+Metrics

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.13%

• Timeouts in mozilla::layers::LockD3DTexture<T>
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709600
  • frequency increased over the last weeks

Beta

crash incidence: 0.83%

Release

crash incidence: 0.65%

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• ESR 115.4.0-build1 in testing

Nightly

• New features – Nightly 120 reports published; Beta 120 preliminary testing starts Oct 26th EEST
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2109 currently Yellow (quality wise) due to open S2 defects: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1858144,1858183
  • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/QA-2089 currently Yellow (quality wise) due to open high impact defect: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1858978
• Nightly 120 pre-merge smoke testing starts Oct 19th EEST, a test report will be published by Oct 20th eod EEST

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – Complete, Beta 119 pre-release sign offs published
• Build validation – 119.0b9-build1 signed off; 119.0-build1 in testing

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

• Mozilla not working next week Friday (Oct 20)
• crash rate too noisy - not providing updates about it here

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• 118 retro Tuesday, October 24⋅17:00 – 17:45