Hello all!
Find below the minutes of the last meeting of the Technical Committee.
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* Last Call: Introduce InterruptMutexManager. While the intent seems
uncontroversial, some details may need further discussion.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161749>.
Should no pertinent concerns remain unaddressed by October 5, this RFC will be
approved for implementation.
* Deadline for applications for the Developer Summit is approaching:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018>
* New Special Interest Group launched: Technical Debt:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Debt_SIG>
* New RFC about safely executing user-provided regular expressions. Lots of
options to discuss <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176312>
* New RFC about consolidating the rpc/RunJobs.php entry point with MW core
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175146>
* Last week’s discussion about the JobQueue turned up some interesting points
particularly about de-duplication and scheduling, in particular with respect to
the upcoming switch to a EventBus/Kafka based job queue.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)/Job_Queue>
* A draft of the database schema for MCR is up for discussion:
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/378724/> and
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Database_Schema>
* Next week’s IRC discussion: Open discussion about how long we need/want to
keep support for HHVM. Thread on wikitech:
<https://lists.gt.net/wiki/wikitech/844711>. RFC about bumping the PHP version
(for context) <ttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165>
As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).
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.