You can already opt in to testing undployed code by using the
WikimediaDebug[1] browser extension (available for firefox[2] and chrome[3])

Maybe we should add an option to force a request to be served from the
latest branch instead of the one assigned in wikiversions.json.

[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikimediaDebug
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wikimedia-debug-header/
[3]
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikimediadebug/binmakecefompkjggiklgjenddjoifbb


On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:21 AM Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote:

> This makes me wonder if there could ever be a way to allow some requests
> to be on one group and other requests for the same wiki could be another
> group.
>
> e.g. users could opt-in to being a canary or some users could be randomly
> selected.
>
> When would this not work? If a newer version required schema change then
> have to stop using old version after applying new schema? but that isn't
> very common? any other complications?
>
> -Jeremyb
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