[QA] Question about deletes

[Chris McMahon]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Nikolas Everett <neverett at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> So my search tests make sure they have a clean set of pages to run against
> by deleting a few pages and rebuilding them.  They also delete and create
> new pages to test that functionality.
>
> In beta, I don't have permission to perform these deletes.  Is that
> something that someone on this list can fix?  Is it even a good idea for me
> to run these against beta's enwiki?  In past lives I've run tests like this
> against a system that is blow away and rebuilt empty every night.
>

I can give you whatever permissions you need to work in the wiki itself (or
tell you about a test user that has them) but it might not be possible to
"blow away and rebuild" data in the beta cluster the way you might suspect.


-Chris
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