On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> So late last night a patch got merged in core which had the knock on > effect of creating a bad experience on mobile. The change basically > notified a user if their username was adjusted e.g. uppercased or > spaces removed. Since most mobile device input fields default to > lowercase rather than Titlecase, this means that pretty much anyone > who now tries to register an account on mobile will see a warning that > their username has been capitalized and will have to fill in the > registration form again (yikes!) > > I reverted the offending change for the time being > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117234/ > but according to Greg the branch has been cut and it will now need to > be backported. > > It would be good if we can get this lightning deployed so that this > doesn't effect account creation numbers on mobile. > > Anyone able to help out here? > I am signing off for now but I hope Kaldari, Juliusz or someone from Mobile can help Jon get this done. I think this is a good opportunity to remind people that patches which impact mobile users *must* be tested on mobile. Even I didn't think to bring this up during review. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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