Addons-frontend: AMO homepage is not loading on stage

[AlexandraMoga]

STR:

1. Access AMO homepage on stage (https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/)

Actual result:
Homepage content is only partially loading

Expected result:
AMO homepage is fully loaded

Notes:

• it seems that collection 'Good time tabs' doesn't exist on stage and it's generating a 404; this might be the root of the isue - https://addons.allizom.org/api/v3/accounts/account/mozilla/collections/good-time-tabs/addons/
• reproduced on AMO-satge with FF58 Win10x64

[bobsilverberg]

Thanks @AlexandraMoga. As we've seen before, and as you've noticed, this is because there is a collection missing on stage. The solution to this is to recreate the collection. The steps to do it are:

1. Log in to the site.
2. Switch to the Classic Desktop site.
3. Go to https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/collections/add.
4. Create a collection with the required name, and save it.
5. Click on "Edit this collection".
6. Add "[email protected]" as a contributor and save the collection.
7. From the "Contributors & More" tab, click the link beside [email protected] that says "Make owner" and then save the collection.

I have done this to create the "good-time-tabs" collection, but it looks like at least the "wikipedia-boosters" collection is also missing. Are you able to follow the above steps to create any collections that are missing, or do you need a developer to do that? If the former, this is something that you could do yourself, as part of the verification process, if that's acceptable to you.

[tofumatt]

Since this isn't a bug but missing content I'm downgrading this from a P1. It's still important as it prevents QA from testing stage though.

[bobsilverberg]

Just to reiterate what I said in https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/4552#issuecomment-373010781, this doesn't actually prevent QA from testing stage, as whoever is testing could create the missing collections themselves, by following the instructions I provided.

[AlexandraMoga]

@bobsilverberg thanks for providing the above steps.
I've added the missing collections - "wikipedia-boosters" and "trending-add-ons" - and stage homepage is now functional.

If we are going to see similar issues in the future, I think QA will be able to fix them without your intervention, as long as these steps are applicable. It will save a lot of time.

[bobsilverberg]

That's great, thanks @AlexandraMoga!