(no longer about the Co-op bot...)

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Chris McMahon <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> It's more getting the configuration correct (CommonSettings,
> InitializeSettings, database configuration, etc.) working in beta labs in
> order to discover any glitches that might occur before doing these updates
> in production. test2wiki is of particular concern because it is a peer node
> on the production cluster, it shares configuration with every other node on
> the Wikipedia cluster. Making a mistake in test2wiki can have serious
> consequences, better to make any mistake in beta labs first.
>

There's no config change for this, I just gave MatchBot the
'flow-create-board' right on testwiki.  We have a dormant wmf-config patch
that creates a "flow-bot" group with this right,
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181120/ , and yes that should be tested
first on beta labs.


> Beyond that, I'd really like the ability to set up and tear down multiple
> Flow pages with interesting content other than just
> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Flow_QA for testing.  (And
> in doing so, encounter any issues along those lines.)
>

Yes! I forgot about that. Back when we had bugs with initial edits to Flow
boards, I meant to propose adding a Test_Flow_talk: namespace on beta labs
and test2wiki in which Flow is enabled, so a test could simply visit
Test_Flow_talk:Random_page_4795.  If you gave the flow-create-board right
to some selenium user, it could make an API call to edit-header or
add-topic on any non-existent page and that would create a Flow board empty
except for that one edit.

-- 
=S Page  Collaboration team engineer
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