Hi All,
Below are this week's TechCom minutes:
* IRC Meeting Occurred: Unify various deletion systems
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20493>
* Meeting minutes:
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-07-18-21.00.html>
* There is the question of how Special:Contributions and
Special:DeletedContributions will work and how if required to provide
feature parity. Further summary here:
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20493#4436769>
* New RFC: Partial blocks <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199917>
The Anti-Harassment team is asking TechCom to review a plan for
implementing Partial Blocks which seeks to allow admins to block users
from specific pages and/or all articles inside a namespace.
* New RFC: Add a language agnostic build step to skins/extensions to our
deploy process <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004> Currently
requires developers to do the build step locally and check-in the
results. This RFC proposes making a universal/repeatable process.
* New RFC: Extension:JADE scalability concerns due to creating a page
per revision <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196547> RFC proposal
still being developed
* New RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010> This RFC is re-evaluating the
use of librsvg to generate PNGs from SVG due to rendering issues and
determining if there is a better alternative.
* IRC Meeting scheduled for 2018-08-01 in the #wikimedia-office channel
at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) RFC: Modern Event Platform - Choose
Schema Tech <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198256> This RFC is
looking at if Apache Arvo or JSONSchema should be used for the event
schema and serialization method.
* No IRC Meeting scheduled for July 25
You can also find our meeting minutes at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes>
See also the TechCom RFC board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>.
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Thanks,
Kate
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Kate Chapman TechCom Facilitator (Contractor)