chore: remove webkit and mobile safari from playwright #10103

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Webkit and Mobile safari are comically unreliable, will fail for unexplainable reasons and are very hard to run locally in comparison with the other supported platforms. I do not remember the last time where these two platforms were able to catch a regression where the other platforms did not.

I would like to stress, for the historical record, that many hours has been devoted into adjusting the tests and following best practices to make these two platforms more stable but despite those, IMO wasted, efforts these two platforms are causing many hours of wasted CPU time simply because they are flaky and make (new) contributors nervous if their change contains a regression or not.

To my knowledge, the tests are not broken for these two platforms. If you go to the issue tracker you will not find issues by users that use these two platforms and report that Forgejo is broken. It does not reflect reality.

This is the sunk cost fallacy, bite the bullet and agree that these platforms will not contribute positively to Forgejo's excellent test suite.

Webkit and Mobile safari are comically unreliable, will fail for unexplainable reasons and are very hard to run locally in comparison with the other supported platforms. I do not remember the last time where these two platforms were able to catch a regression where the other platforms did not. I would like to stress, for the historical record, that many hours has been devoted into adjusting the tests and following best practices to make these two platforms more stable but despite those, IMO wasted, efforts these two platforms are causing many hours of wasted CPU time simply because they are flaky and make (new) contributors nervous if their change contains a regression or not. To my knowledge, the tests are not broken for these two platforms. If you go to the issue tracker you will not find issues by users that use these two platforms and report that Forgejo is broken. It does not reflect reality. This is the sunk cost fallacy, bite the bullet and agree that these platforms will not contribute positively to Forgejo's excellent test suite.
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They are comically unreliable, will fail for unexplainable reasons and
are very hard to run locally in comparisions with the other supported
platforms. I do not remember the last time where these two platforms
were able to catch a regression where the other platforms did not.

I would like to stress, for the historical record, that many hours has
been devoted into adjusting the tests and following best practices to
make these two platforms but despite those, IMO wasted, efforts these
two platforms are causing many hours of wasted CPU time simply because
they are flaky and make (new) contributors nervous if their change
contains a regression or not.

To my knowledge, the tests are not broken for these two platforms. If
you go to the issue tracker you will not find many issues by users that
use these two platforms and report that Forgejo is broken. It does not
reflect reality.

This is the sunk cost fallacy, bite the bullet and agree that these
platforms will not contribute postively to Forgejo's excellent test
suite.
Gusted 2025-11-13 16:19:16 +01:00
viceice approved these changes 2025-11-13 16:23:13 +01:00
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mfenniak approved these changes 2025-11-13 17:10:47 +01:00
0ko approved these changes 2025-11-13 17:11:13 +01:00
Gusted merged commit 0737196842 into forgejo 2025-11-13 17:23:11 +01:00
fnetX approved these changes 2025-11-14 00:00:27 +01:00
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I agree. Forgejo's test suite is getting pretty good. The time that went into debugging the safari tests can now be spent in other areas to make it even better.

I agree. Forgejo's test suite is getting pretty good. The time that went into debugging the safari tests can now be spent in other areas to make it even better.
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