Manual QA for 9.4 RC2 (staging)

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Changes to the checklist template can be made at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-tools/blob/master/doc/qa-checklist.md

Checks to complete on staging now

Login

• Regular account login
• LDAP login - Credentials are in the Support 1Password vault
• SAML login - Credentials are in the Support 1Password vault, instructions are here

Forks

• Fork group project
• Push changes to fork
• Submit merge request to origin project
• Accept merge request

Git

• Add SSH key
• Remove SSH key
• git clone, git push over SSH
• git clone, git push over HTTP with regular account
• git clone, git push over HTTP with LDAP account

Project

• Create project
• Create project via repository import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35050
• Transfer project to new owner
• Rename project's repository path
• Add project member
• Remove project member
• Remove project
• Create branch via UI
• Create tag via UI

Web editor

• Create a new file via UI
• Edit a file via UI
• Upload a new file via UI
• Replace a file via UI
• Remove a file via UI

Group

• Create group
• Create project in group's namespace
• Add group member
• Remove group member
• Remove group

Markdown

• Visit / clone relative links repository and see if the links are linking to the correct documents in the repository
• Check if images are rendered in the repository's README
• Click on a directory link and see if it correctly takes to the tree view
• Click on a file link and see if it correctly takes to the blob view
• Check if the links in the README when viewed as a blob are correct
• Select the markdown branch and check if all links point to the files within the markdown branch

Syntax highlighting

• Visit/clone language highlight repository
• Check for obvious errors in highlighting

Checks before final release

Upgrader

• Upgrade from the previous release
• Run the upgrader script in this release (it should not break)

Rake tasks

• Check if rake gitlab:check is updated and works
• Check if rake gitlab:env:info is updated and works