[Licom-l] Login bug

Mon Apr 13 17:24:02 UTC 2009

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> There's a bug which we failed to properly identify during beta testing.
> I guess everyone dismissed it as a temporary issue. When you click the
> jump button on a Wikimedia wiki, you will be told you are not logged in
> and cannot vote. If you then click back, then click the jump button
> again, it will work. This is because the login subpage fails to properly
> create a session and set a cookie. The error page does create a session,
> which means that the second attempt, with session created, works.
>
> I've applied a probable fix in subversion and asked Michael by email to
> deploy it, but I haven't heard from him today and it might be some time
> before he responds. In any case, we've recorded about 140 votes so far,
> over 2 hours, so I guess the bug is not an obstacle for many people.

Has this been fixed now?  I want to know if we can take down the
explanation and workaround message.

-Robert