On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)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