I am setting up a testing environment for mediawiki and the first thing that came to mind is testing new extensions against a "regression test configuration". That raises the question of what should constitute such a configuration. One issue is which extensions should be loaded.
There are over 2000 extensions in the mediawiki extensions matrix and 512 stable extensions. It would be impractical to run a configuration with all of either class. So, I asked around and received a suggestion that at the very least the extensions on the wikimedia servers should be loaded. I went to http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ and copied CommonSettings.php. From it I extracted 75 extensions that are used on wikimedia's servers. I list these below. A question for readers of this list is: should a regression test configuration load only these extensions or should it load others? Another question is: what other settings should define a regression test configuration. Wikimedia installed extensions: Timeline, wikihiero, SiteMatrix, CharInsert, CheckUser, SpecialMakesysop, Makebot, ParserFunctions, Cite, InputBox, ExpandTemplates, ImageMap, SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi, DoubleWiki, Poem, PovWatch, AjaxTest, UnicodeConverter, CategoryTree, ProofreadPage, lst, SpamBlacklist, UploadBlacklist, TitleBlacklist, Quiz, Gadgets, OggHandler, AssertEdit, FormPreloadPostCache, SkinPerPage, Schulenburg, Tomas, ContributionReporting, ContributionTracking, ContactPage, ExtensionDistributor, GlobalBlocking, TrustedXFF, ContactPage, SecurePoll, OAIRepo, DynamicPageList, Nogomatch, SpecialCrossNamespaceLinks, SpecialRenameuser, SpecialNuke, AntiBot, TorBlock, CookieBlock, ScanSet, SpecialCite, FixedImage, UserThrottle, ConfirmEdit, FancyCaptcha, HideRevision, AntiSpoof, CentralAuth, DismissableSiteNotice, UsernameBlacklist, MiniDonation, CentralNotice, TitleKey, WikimediaMessages, SimpleAntiSpam, Collection, NewUserMessage, CodeReview, Drafts, Configure, AbuseFilter, ClientSide, CommunityVoice, PdfHandler, UsabilityInitiative Regards, Dan Nessett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
