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 YYYY-MM-DD on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox:
* Remove legacy ajax interface T42787
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42787>
o Very old task. We should just do it.
Committee board activity:
* Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit T267213
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213>
o We should just add WikiTeq to the policy page
New RFCs: none
Phase progression:
* PHP microservice for containerized shell execution (aka ShellBox) T260330
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330>
o Last call should have ended last week. Some discussion during last call
period. New comment asking why this should be written in PHP.
o Code is already merged, though not used yet.
o Can probably be approved.
* Amendment to the Stable interface policy T268326
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326>
o Question about new requirement to wait at least thee month between hard
deprecation and removal.
o Moved to phase 4
* PageIdentity T208776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776>
o Thiemo (WMDE) asking about some details
o Daniel would like this to go on last call.
Other RFC activity:
* Expand API title generator to support other generated data T263841
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841>
o Tim says this is fine and should go ahead
o Do we need a last call?
* Provide mechanism for defining and utilizing configuration sets for local
development and browser / API-testing tests T267928
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928>
o Continued discussion after IRC meeting
o Adam Wight emphasizes the need to have config controlled per-request,
rather than changing config on disk.
* Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage T214362
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362>
o WMDE would like this to move forward. Resourcing is not really clear.
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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation