(-cc wikitech-l, +cc QA) On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/04/2013 12:58 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> This was due to a broken deployment of Parsoid, the new MediaWiki >> parser used by VisualEditor. A new library dependency defaulted to >> iso8859-1 instead of utf-8, which caused character munging to occur. > > I have created a post-mortem at > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20131104-Parsoid > > The most important recommendation is the creation of automated > full-stack web API tests in addition to our existing parser test and > round-trip test setups. This should catch library issues like this in > the future before deployment. > > We also updated the Parsoid deploy guidelines to include manual edit > checks on non-English wikis, which will help to catch any remaining > production-specific deployment issues.
Hi Gabriel, Can you explain how the release cycle works for Parsoid? It would seem implementing "Manually test VisualEditor on non-English wikis before and after deployment" requires the team to have a better understanding when that is. Rob _______________________________________________ QA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa
