Hi all!

First off - the Architecture Committee is now the Technical Committee! We just adopted our first official charter, defining the scope and authority of the committee. You can find it here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter

Thanks for your patience and input!

With that out of the way - here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2017-07-26.

See also the TechCom activity page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Activity and the RFC board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/.

Here are the minutes, for your convenience:

* TechCom (ne ArchCom) charter approved: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter

* Last Call: Migrate to HTML5 section ids https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540.

Should no pertinent objections remain unaddressed by August 9th, the RFC will be approved for implementation. The currently ongoing work on code should be considered a prototype until then. See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/362326/

* Next week’s RFC: Combined contribs / talk pages for IPv6 ranges https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171382.

As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).

* Global Collaboration team is working on refactoring RecentChanges/Watchlist code

* Mobile team(s) working on a new content API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162179