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Stop counting errors in Minerva
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A while back we began counting errors for Minerva. Now we have real error logging with stack traces the benefits of this are diminishing, we are shipping bytes to users that are unnecessary and the tooling should be removed.

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Change 636073 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Remove client side error counting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/636073

Post-merge follow-up tasks proposed by @polishdeveloper:

  • Remove the now-deprecated configuration variables from our production config
  • Document the deprecation of the configuration variables
    • IMO we should do this on the skin's wiki page
  • Mark the legacy WebClientError schema as deprecated

Change 636073 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Remove client side error counting

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/636073

Jdlrobson triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 26 2020, 6:40 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Kanbanana-FY-2020-21 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.
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Change 649434 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] wgMinervaCountErrors config was removed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/649434

Change 649434 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] wgMinervaCountErrors config was removed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/649434

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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-12-16T19:09:30Z] <dcausse@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: T266359: wgMinervaCountErrors config was removed (duration: 01m 03s)