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 Tuesday 2020-12-08 on the following boards:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/

Committee inbox: (none)

Committee board activity:

• T42787 Remove legacy ajax interface
• I moved from Inbox to Watching
• T267213 Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit
  
• Kizule is asking for an update.
• It seems there are two things to do: create the group and update the policy.

New RFCs: (none)

Phase progression: (none)

IRC meeting request: (none)

Other RFC activity:

• T263841 RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data
  
• There is a new proposal text. Please comment.
• T259771: RFC: Drop support for database upgrade older than two LTS releases.
  
• Discussion on the task. To me it looks mostly in favor or commenting that some of the problems are not fully solved by this proposal.
• T268326 RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (November 2020)
  
• Feedback given about the proposed 3 month minimum period
• T119173: RFC: Discourage use of MySQL's ENUM type.
  
• Amir showed how to automatically generate on-wiki documentation for tables.
• T133452: RFC: Create temporary accounts for anonymous editors.
  
• Many comments after Tim proposed to use cloaks (see his comment in the task for details)
• T214362: RFC: Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage.
  
• Krinkle asked for clarifications. Lucas responded with a comment and Lydia offered to have it explained in a call.
• T208776: RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage.
  
• Krinkle and Daniel discuss implementation details in context of what's best for type safety, clarity and migration.