Hello all!

Find below the minutes of the last meeting of the Technical Committee.

* Wednesday’s IRC discussion was about all things JobQueue: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)/Job_Queue

* RFC declined as proposed: restructuring the MediaWiki repo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038. Quite a few interesting ideas were discussed though, worth revisiting.

* Ongoing beta test: Using the Kafka based EventBus for JobQueues https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157088

* Next week’s IRC discussion: Interrupt mutex manager (refactoring/generalizing PoolCounter) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161749 As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).

* PDF generation: Reading is taking ownership of Electron service; OCG scheduled to be shut down by the end of the month.

* Work starting on splitting out user information from the revision table (Brad)

* The program committee for the developer summit has been selected: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018#Program_Commi...

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/.