selenium: Use Special:CreateAccount for account creation
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	kostajh
	Jul 27 2022, 5:53 AM

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Using Special:CreateAccount instead of the API account creation method would have prevented the T285996: [regression-wmf12] new accounts do not get GrowthExperiments features regression from occurring.

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	selenium: Use Special:CreateAccount for account creation	mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments	master	+14 -24

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		None	T311850 [Epic] FY 2022-23 Growth Maintenance Work
		Resolved		kostajh	T313884 selenium: Use Special:CreateAccount for account creation

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Change 702893 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] selenium: Use Special:CreateAccount for account creation

kostajh raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Jul 27 2022, 6:14 AM

kostajh changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 29 2022, 12:59 PM

kostajh lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.

Change 702893 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] selenium: Use Special:CreateAccount for account creation

Urbanecm_WMF changed the task status from In Progress to Open.Oct 20 2022, 12:51 PM