On top of this there is a css regression that has hit MediaWiki.org:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62347


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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