On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> 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/