On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to see MediaWiki gain a more stable release process as well. I think some of the primary things that we're lacking are:
- Where is QA? I mean, I know somewhere somebody is probably doing some
sort of testing, but having worked as a QA engineer I haven't seen anything in MW that would resemble proper and traditional testing (excluding the unit testing). Where's the list of test cases that need to be performed for each release? How can one make new test cases and add them? etc. Maybe this already exists, but if it does it's definitely not documented well enough.
Two answers, possibly oversimplified:
First, supporting Mediawiki for 3rd parties is not a priority for WMF in recent times, so QA efforts have been focused elsewhere. Second, volunteer QA testing in general *is* a priority for WMF right now, so a volunteer QA effort to test Mediawiki releases would be a likely candidate for WMF support. This sort of project would fall naturally into the effort we're calling "Features Testing", and we're looking to support that sort of project by way of a "Group" http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Features_testing.
-Chris