Hi All,
Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting:
* RFC Last Call until 2019-10-02: Drop IE6 and IE7 basic compatibility and security support https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232563. This means we can remove code that works around issues with IE6 and IE7. If no concerns remain unaddressed by October 2nd, the RFC will be approved as proposed.
* Discussed: Kickoff of the Front-end Architecture Working Group (FAWG) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Front_End_Architecture_Working_Group. The purpose of the Frontent Architecture Working Group is to propose an architecture for a more modern front-end to MediaWiki, enabling a richer user experience. Efforts to modernize the user interface have often struggled with limitations imposed by MediaWiki core and the overall system architecture. FAWG is an effort by the Product and Technology departments to develop a mid-term plan to overcome these limitations.
* Discussed: Section headings with clickable anchor https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691. This is about a "link to this section" feature pegged for deployment on WMF wikis. The RFC is to make sure that there are no performance issues with this change.
* IRC discussion next week: Core REST API namespace and version https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232485. This is about versioning strategies for public APIs. As always, the meeting will take place on Freenode in the #wikimedia-office channel, at 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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Cheers, Daniel