Fairly obvious if you look at the code, self::$centralNoticeDB doesn't get anything assigned to it

And while someone ins in there...

There are to @todo FIXMEs needing passing of a user parameter

here's a patchset https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/26663/

mwalker wrote:

Patch merged - the tests still fail - but at least they don't crash!

Thanks Nischay for making that change. :)

Next up: updating the tests so that they test the new architecture! Anyone? :p I'll get around to it eventually but certainly no one should wait for me.