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Variant C/D: configuration control
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Description

After the code for Variants C and D has all arrived in production, we don't want newcomers to immediately start being assigned to those variants. We want them to continue to be assigned to Variant A until we explicitly start assigning them to Variants C and D.

We need to be able to configure this.

Event Timeline

Change 633786 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; owner: Gergő Tisza):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] GrowthExperiments: Keep users with no explicit variant on variant A

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633786

We should deploy this before the wmf.13 group1 deployment.

MMiller_WMF renamed this task from Variant tests: configuration control for C and D to Variant C/D: configuration control.Oct 13 2020, 5:52 PM

Change 633756 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; owner: Gergő Tisza):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633756

Change 633786 abandoned by Gergő Tisza:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] GrowthExperiments: Keep users with no explicit variant on variant A

Reason:
Per comments above. The testwiki part still seems useful, I'll just make that a separate patch.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633786

Change 633756 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633756

Change 633757 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Gergő Tisza):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.13] Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633757

Change 633757 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.13] Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/633757

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-10-13T23:22:40Z] <catrope@deploy1001> Synchronized php-1.36.0-wmf.13/extensions/GrowthExperiments/: Revert removal of variant A (T265372) (duration: 01m 04s)

Change 634088 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Revert "Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A""

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/634088

Change 634088 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Revert "Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A""

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/634088

Change 635595 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.14] Revert "Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A""

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/635595

Change 635595 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.36.0-wmf.14] Revert "Revert "Make variant D the default, and remove variant A""

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/635595

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-10-26T18:47:53Z] <catrope@deploy1001> Synchronized php-1.36.0-wmf.14/extensions/GrowthExperiments/: Make variant D the default, remove variant A (T265372, T265556) (duration: 00m 58s)