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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268328 is still in the inbox, no activity since last week's discussion - Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213 is now more clear (see note from Daniel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213#6653536 to discuss, which we should do here)
Committee board activity:
- General ParserCache service class for large "current" page-derived data https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227776 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010: saw more conversation - RFC: Discourage use of MySQL's ENUM type https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326 has a suggestion/question about clarifying default status and deprecation procedure - RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362 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 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841 Carly Bogen is asking for clarity on the need for a steward. Timo's comment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841#6617970 on the task indeed seem to contradict his note from last week's grooming email. Timo, would you please clarify.