📖 Developer Satisfaction 2026 Report

🧪 Shared test environments

tl;dr

- Patch demo
  - Satisfaction: 86% of users are satisfied with Patch Demo and 0% dissatisfaciton!
  - Patch demo users want to be able to edit their LocalSettings.php
  - In open responses, were happy about Patch demo ownership
- Beta dissatisfaction ↓ Less dissatisfaction—fell from 32% → 19%
- Overall ↓ Less dissatisfaction—fell from 41% → 24%

# Beta satisfaction

“If you have used the Wikimedia beta cluster in the past year, how satisfied are you with the beta cluster?”
last year

43% said they were satisfied
36% said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
19% said they were dissatisfied
2% said they were unsure

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# Beta satisfaction (by role)

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# Beta for auto vs manual testing

“In the past year, have you used beta cluster for automated testing of code, content, or infrastructure changes?”

"In the past year, have you used beta cluster for manual testing of code, content, or infrastructure changes?"

Of the 44 who answered this question, 35 (80%) said they used beta cluster for manual testing of code, while 6 (14%) said they used beta cluster for automated testing of code.

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# Patch Demo satisfaction

”If you have used Patch Demo in the past year, how satisfied are you with Patch Demo?”
last year

86% said they were satisfied
9% said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
5% said they were unsure
0% said they were dissatisfied

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# Patch Demo satisfaction (by role)

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# Patch Demo potential feature ranking

”How would you rank the following potential new features of Patch Demo, in order of importance?”

We asked respondents to rank potential new Patch Demo features. The top ranked feature was the ability to edit LocalSettings.php, followed by the ability to create “wikifarms” (i.e., create more than one wiki with shared authentication).

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# Shared test environment satisfaction

“How satisfied are you with your ability to test your code in a shared environment (i.e., beta cluster, patchdemo) before merge?”
last year

The number of respondents saying they were dissatisfied dropped from 41% last year to 24% this year.

57% said they were satisfied
12% said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
24% said they were dissatisfied
6% said they were unsure

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# Feedback

“Please share any other feedback you may have about shared test environments”
last year

Ownership

21% of responses mention the topic of ownership in two different senses.

Folks are still worried about Beta's ownership:

Beta cluster: still owned only nominally, still broken from time to time unexpectedly, still makes me sad.

But they're happy to see Patch Demo's ownership:

I am very glad that Patch Demo has been getting WMF engineering time put behind it --- long may that continue!!

Please invest more in patch demo.