Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing changes to the Math extension before they get live at wikipedia

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Moritz Schubotz <physik(a)physikerwelt.de>wrote;wrote: On 27 January an automated test on beta labs identified new missing dependencies for Math: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60486. This was fixed. On 28 January an automated test on beta labs identified an error with Math communicating with the Parser that prevented loading any page containing a Math expression: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60546. This was fixed. On 29 January Physikerwelt sent a message to Antoine Musso entitled "effects on caching" saying "please be informed that recent changes in the Math extension and core might influence the stability of large MediaWiki instances due to a change in the cache key". That message does not appear in the wikitech-l archives for January, although Physikerwelt seems to have forwarded Antoine's message there. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/ before the changes are merged to the master branch. Beta labs is our production like environment. It should probably be possible to use beta labs for this. However, beta does run only the master branch of each extension, but does so before the master branch of each extension is deployed to production. In this case the root cause of the error seems to have been that the message about Math's effect on caching was somehow lost.