17 October 2022

• “knock on effects”, thinking about how one patch then breaks downstream tools, and how we could avoid this as it’s so time-consuming
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/818604 which adjusted some limits in MW core and then broke api-testing tests for GrowthExperiments (those tests not run with mw-core patches)
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/819161 which inadvertently broke Patch Demo for all wikis installing GrowthExperiments
  • php 7.4 upgrade which broke MW vagrant