Thread:Talk:Sandbox tests/Multiple sandbox wikis with different versions of software?/reply

Quite frankly spoken we can hardly get people to recreate a bug just on the one sandbox we have. This is already a painful and tedious process for most people. Moreover I believe it is sufficient to recreate a bug on the existing sandbox since it runs current software which is also the software that will be fixed if at all. Bugs will in general not be fixed for outdated software versions and only if they are being observed on current versions. At least that's the situation for most semantic extensions, the extensions provided by WMF and to my experience most of all other extensions. Ultimately you will have to upgrade anyway to get bug fixes in. Surly it might sometimes be nice to know how different versions behaved, when a regression was introduced or a bug fixed but this extra effort most people will not make. We should rather have more integration tests which allow for automated testing through several versions and this is probably one of the reasons why James Hong Kong put extraordinary effort into just doing this over the past couple of years.