http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
I am a bad editor. -Chris On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcma...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > When I was hired as QA Lead almost seven months ago, WMF lacked a test > environment where > > * code was routinely deployed ahead of production > * the test environment emulated the production environment closely > * aspects of the test environment (config, permissions, etc.) could be > easily and reliably manipulated for testing purposes > > Today I am happy to announce that beta labs fulfills those needs. > > Beta labs is intended to host the upcoming release of Mediawiki, plus > those extensions scheduled for deployment to production, for the purpose of > testing and investigation. > > As of a little while ago, Mediawiki, AFTv5, New Pages Feed/Page Curation, > and UploadWizard are being deployed to beta labs from git automatically and > reliably. The configurations for those extensions are also being managed > in git. The environment itself is managed via puppet, and emulates > production to the greatest extent possible. Many many thanks to Antoine > Musso for making this possible. > > As of this week, all these extensions are up, running, and configured to > be useful. Note that they are not perfect, just useful. For example, > right now on beta enwiki both AFTv4 and AFTv5 input forms appear on the > same page in many cases, because I was experimenting with what happens when > these extensions are not configured correctly. Some actions from the Page > Curation toolbar never complete. As these glitches become important to > testing, we will get them working correctly, and likely will find out some > interesting things about the software along the way. > > The timing for this announcement is excellent, because new QA Engineers > will be joining WMF soon (more on that next week), and beta labs will be a > prime target for the browser-level end-to-end automated tests we will > shortly be creating. Also, we have been wanting to retire the 'prototype' > host for some time, and having AFTv5 etc. on beta labs should make that > possible. > > In summary, beta labs is up and running with current code for Mediawiki > and critical extensions, and at this point the best way to improve beta > labs is to use it. > > http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedbackv5 > http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
