Flow: handle varying permissions in browser tests
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	Jun 26 2014, 6:56 PM

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• Spage created this task.Jun 26 2014, 6:56 PM

Flow browser tests, including flow_logged_in.feature, assume $MEDIAWIKI_USER can
block users and delete and suppress topics and posts. This means pointing tests at an arbitrary MEDIAWIKI_URL will fail until an admin grants scary permissions to that user.

We could change tests to

Pending the current user can block user  ( suppress topics|delete topics)

and then as I understand it they'll report as skipped rather than failed.

A test API call that gets the current user's rights would be extremely useful, that could be a dependent bug.

Added to backlog: https://trello.com/c/8IudmN4X

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