Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213
Approved.
TechCom to amend the policy to add the exemption.
Gerrit admins to create the group and explain that they can decide who to be added, but that Phab tickets will be required still.

RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841
Matthias has proposed wording for the API policy.
Put on Last Call until Jan 6.

RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771
Daniel to document concern about adopting false advertisement.
Daniel to add some kind of intermediary Local-only interface to adopt first, then on Last Call until Jan 6.

RFC: Drop support for older database upgrades

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771
Looks good to go, but we already have two RFCs on Last Call.
Expected to go on Last Call in January.

Upcoming holidays

There will also be no TechCom triage meeting on 23 December and 30 December due to holidays. The next triage and review will be in the week of 6 January 2021.

Next week IRC office hours

No IRC discussion scheduled for next week.

You can also find our meeting minutes at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes

-- Timo

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:49 PM Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com> wrote:

This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.
Activity since Tuesday 2020-12-08 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox: (none)
Committee board activity:
T42787 Remove legacy ajax interface
I moved from Inbox to Watching
T267213 Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit
Kizule is asking for an update.
It seems there are two things to do: create the group and update the policy.
New RFCs: (none)
Phase progression: (none)
IRC meeting request: (none)
Other RFC activity:
T263841 RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data
There is a new proposal text. Please comment.
T259771: RFC: Drop support for database upgrade older than two LTS releases.
Discussion on the task. To me it looks mostly in favor or commenting that some of the problems are not fully solved by this proposal.
T268326 RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (November 2020)
Feedback given about the proposed 3 month minimum period
T119173: RFC: Discourage use of MySQL's ENUM type.
Amir showed how to automatically generate on-wiki documentation for tables.
T133452: RFC: Create temporary accounts for anonymous editors.
Many comments after Tim proposed to use cloaks (see his comment in the task for details)
T214362: RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage.
Krinkle asked for clarifications. Lucas responded with a comment and Lydia offered to have it explained in a call.
T208776: RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage.
Krinkle and Daniel discuss implementation details in context of what's best for type safety, clarity and migration.

-Niklas
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