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VisualEditor: Expose build number
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Description

Quite often we get bug reports for issues that have been recently fixed but not deployed to the smaller wikis.

It would be very useful if we had build numbers that we could access (e.g. ve.version) in the client so we could tell quickly how out of date the deployed code is before we waste time debugging an issue someone else has already fixed.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz53050

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 1:59 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz53050.

Change 81877 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders:
Expose version information in the client

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/81877

Change 81877 merged by jenkins-bot:
Expose version information in the client

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/81877

This isn't working. When I click on "Beta" to see this, it says "Version false", with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/false (from userspace) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/false (from article space).

Yes, there's an issue with our deployment process which prevents it from working ATM. We're working on a fix.

Change 84334 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders:
Hide version info if not available

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/84334

Change 84334 merged by jenkins-bot:
Hide version info if not available

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/84334