Hi all!
I'd like to mention one additional topic: I have been touching up my proposal for the introduction of PageIdentity, as a lightweight alternative to Title and WikiPage. I would like to propose for it to go on last call. It has been sitting in the "tune" phase for a while, and it seems pretty mature to my by now.
You can find the proposed code on gerrit, see Iaed4871e0d32c67d4fb13e487625527f6a21e9c5. There is a chain of follow-up patches (some incomplete) that demonstrate how the new interface is intended to be used, and how it can improve existing code.
This is the weekly TechCom board review. 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. This week, the meeting is async, so we'll be replying to the email as well, feel free to join in!
Activity since Wednesday 2020-11-25 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/Committee inbox:
- Automatically index extensions in Codesearch is still in the inbox, no activity since last week's discussion
- Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit is now more clear (see note from Daniel to discuss, which we should do here)
Committee board activity:
- General ParserCache service class for large "current" page-derived data was declined by Daniel, see his reasoning there
New RFCs: (none)
Phase progression: (none)
IRC meeting request: (none)
Other RFC activity:
- RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer for WMF wikis saw more conversation
- RFC: Discourage use of MySQL's ENUM type Amir points out the need to overhaul all db documentation (I agree, could we have a doc sprint about this?) including policies
- RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy, November 2020 has a suggestion/question about clarifying default status and deprecation procedure
- RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage WMDE calls for help from TechCom and the Platform team to collaborate here. See Adam Shorland's comment about putting it through the new Technical Decision Making Process
- RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data Carly Bogen is asking for clarity on the need for a steward. Timo's comment on the task indeed seem to contradict his note from last week's grooming email. Timo, would you please clarify.
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