<quote name="C. Scott Ananian" date="2015-05-29" time="13:38:49 -0400"> > I'll echo those nervous about the faster pace for deploys -- although > not so nervous as to dig my feet in and yell stop. Mostly my concerns > boil down to the fact that the beta environment isn't really a good > test for anything other than absolute crashers. Hardly anyone uses > the Collection extension (for example) on beta, for example.
Sounds like you need more manual testing then? Who is tasked with doing that for your team? > I'd *really* like to see some effort put into improving beta. In > particular, running beta with an up-to-date (but sanitized, perhaps) > mirror of the main WP databases would ensure that we have a decent > amount of test cases on beta. We recently spent a couple of hours > trying to test Parsoid on beta, only to find out that the behavior we > were chasing down was caused by the fact that beta's copy of the IPA > formatting templates on enwiki (!) were out-of-date and incomplete. > We really need to do better than [[English language]] as far as > articles to test on enbeta. Yeah, that'd be nice. See related tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51779 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54382 Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
