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 Monday 2020-11-02 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox:
- T268328: Automatically index extensions in Codesearch
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268328>
- Daniel is raising that people effectively use Codesearch to guide
deprecation efforts under theStable Interface policy. As such, we should
define what inclusion criteria it has (or should have), and simply or
document how to implement that in practice through adding and removing
repositories from its index (esp those not hosted by Wikimedia).
- T267085 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267085>: Clarify
deprecation of method overrides
- A question about the stable interface policy.
Committee board activity:
- T175745 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175745>: Do not overwrite
edits when conflicting with self
- Some renewed interest on this question about how MW should handle
when e.g. someone starts editing the same page from multiple
tabs and then
submits those edits.
- T227776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227776>: General
ParserCache service class
- Addshore asking for an update.
New RFCs:
- T268326: RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (Nov 2020)
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326>
- Proposal by Daniel, to:
- … fill some gaps (e.g. traits, and member fields).
- … allow for removal without (released) deprecation if it is
unused in code we know about and is considered "maintained".
Input welcome.
Phase progression:
- T266866 RFC <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266866>: Bump Basic
browser support to require TLS 1.2 for MediaWiki core
- Ed lists which Web APIs and other browser capabilities would become
safe to use in the base layer (HTML/CSS), as well as some JS
features that
will automatically become available to Grade A.
- Ed confirmed TLS 1.2 mapping to browser names/versions.
- Moved to Phase 3: Explore.
- T260330 RFC: PHP microservice for containerized shell
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330>
- Moved to Last Call last week, until 2 December (next week).
- Tim answered and added a section to clarify the backwards
compatible nature of the PHP interface in core, for third-parties that
would not or have not installed Shellbox.
- T259771: RFC: Drop support for database upgrade older than two LTS
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771>
- Last week's concerns about detection and failure prevention have
been answered by Amir.
- The Platform Engineering Team has filled the ownership gap for this
policy.
- Moved to Phase 4: Tune.
IRC meeting request:
- Later today (Wed 25 Nov), this RFC will be discussed in
#wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC:
RFC: Provide mechanism for configuration sets for development and tests
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928
Other RFC activity:
- T263841 RFC <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841>: Expand API
title generator to support other generated data
- Rescoped from potential software change to policy update.
- Awaiting resourcing from core API steward to confirm support, risk,
compatibility as proposed.
- T250406 RFC: Hybrid extension management
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406 >
- Conversation about what we would need to commit to for WMF
software, and seeking placing and approval of said resourcing.
- T119173: RFC: Discourage use of MySQL ENUM type
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173>
- Next step is for the consensus to be turned into concrete wording
for the policy.
- T40010: RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer for WMF wikis
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010:>
- Some general clarifications, and statistics from production.
-- Timo