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| If we deploy MediaWiki multiple times per day into a contained area of production we will create the most "production like" environment for QTE staff to use for manual exploratory testing and automated regression checks prior to train deployment to major content wikis. |
One core use case for the beta cluster is providing an automatically maintained environment running the current HEAD of each MediaWiki software component. This collection of wikis with extensions and support services is used for manual exploratory testing as well as automated regression checks of functionality that will be deployed by the next train (or other deploy process depending on the component).
As part of the long term effort to find better supported environments to replace the use of the beta cluster we will build a MediaWiki hosting environment and ship MediaWiki core, extensions, skins, and config there on a cadence similar to the beta cluster (every 10 minutes).