Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-11-14

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

Schedule Update

• 119
  • No dot release planned before 120 go-live
• 120
  • We are in RC Week!
    • Desktop 120.0 RC1 rolled out to beta at 100% on 2023-11-13
    • Android 120.0 RC1 rolled out to Production at 5%
    • iOS Focus 120.0 submited to Store for approval
    • iOS Firefox 120.0 has a red QA sign-off and pending fixes for new build
• 121
  • Nightly soft code freeze starts on Thursday 2023-11-16
  • Merge Day and 121.0b1 build scheduled for Monday 2023-11-20

Release quality metrics (Thursdays)

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 2.57% (+0.60pp compared to last week which had a low value for recent weeks); incidence at same time of development cycle for v120 was 2.13%, for v119 1.67%

• still elevated because of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709600

• Crash in [@ webrender::renderer::upload::UploadTexturePool::format_index]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864687
  • medium frequency
  • triage owner needinfoed

Beta

crash incidence: 1.51% (-0.46pp - last week had high value); incidence at same time of development cycle for v119 was 0.83%, for v118 0.88%

Release

crash incidence: 0.67% (-0.94pp - last week had high value because directly measured after new release, this week is at normal level)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

Focus

QA

• RC1 115.5.0esr-build1 - testing in progress. No concerns so far.

Nightly

• Nightly 121 accessibility testing - in progress. Only one new S3 issue encountered so far - Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864606

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
  • Feature Testing

Action items

Feature Status Review

SUMO Report

Roundtable & Special Topics

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx119 retrospective planned for Tuesday 2023-11-21 08:00 - 08:45 PT