Hello all!
Find below the minutes of the last meeting of the Technical Committee.
* Wednesday’s IRC discussion was about all things JobQueue:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)/Job_Queue
* RFC declined as proposed: restructuring the MediaWiki repo
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038. Quite a few interesting ideas were
discussed though, worth revisiting.
* Ongoing beta test: Using the Kafka based EventBus for JobQueues
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157088
* Next week’s IRC discussion: Interrupt mutex manager (refactoring/generalizing
PoolCounter)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161749
As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).
* PDF generation: Reading is taking ownership of Electron service; OCG scheduled
to be shut down by the end of the month.
* Work starting on splitting out user information from the revision table (Brad)
* The program committee for the developer summit has been selected:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018#Program_Comm…
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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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.