[QA] [WikimediaMobile] Failing MobileFrontend browser tests

[Rob Lanphier]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Thanks for the replies, everyone - however I haven't seen Antoine's
> response (beyond the bit quoted in Chris Steipp's reply), did it not get
> reply all'd or otherwise not sent to mobile-l? Further response inline.
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Antoine and Zeljko are the right people to talk about this while Chris is
>> out, and it's late in the day for them.  I'm sure they'll get back to you
>> tomorrow.  Greg may be able to say more about this, but honestly, the
>> nature of this thread is a little bit like little kids in the backseat
>> saying "are we there yet? are we there yet?" repeatedly  :-)
>>
>
> Rob, the last time we inquired about this (to my knowledge) was one month
> ago (see email subject 'migrating MobileFrontend browser tests to WMF
> Jenkins'). We saw no substantive followup, and our browser test builds have
> been broken since the migration over one month ago as a result of
> infrastructural issues. This not only rendered the automated browser tests
> essentially useless for us but it has also become a significant drain on
> time and focus. This isn't a case of us asking 'are we there yet' - rather
> it's a case of us trying to understand when we'll be able to rely on our
> browser tests again and to see if there's any way we can help to improve
> the situation.
>
>
The completion of the migration to Saucelabs was announced July 3.  If you
aren't getting replies, it's probably because they are stuck in the
mobile-l moderation queue.  Antoine did send his email to the mobile-l
list, but is probably not a member.  In general, there has been a fair
amount of conversation on the topic on the qa list, so I'd encourage you to
check out the activity there if you haven't already seen it.

Sorry for being glib earlier.  I understand the current situation must be
frustrating for you all, and I hope Zeljko and Antoine are able to provide
a satisfactory answer on this.  Chris will also be back on Monday, though
unfortunately Antoine will be gone at that point.

Rob
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