Hello all!

Here are the minutes from this week's meeting:

* Outcome of this week’s IRC discussion: Usage of FauxRequest in production code is discouraged and should be considered technical debt. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266.

* Ongoing Last Call: Target PHP 5.6 for MW 1.31 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by November 1st, this RFC will be approved for implementation. Related: Target PHP 7 for MW 1.32 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165.

* Next week’s IRC: Allowing extensions to override preferences https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449. Beware Daylight Confusion Week! The discussion will take in #wikimedia-office, at 2pm PDT as usual for Americans, but for Europeans it will be one hour earlier, at 22:00 CET. The following week, we will be back on the regular schedule for both America and Europe.

* Active discussion: Heredoc arguments for templates (aka "hygienic" or "long" arguments) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114432

* TechCom to revise outdated policy pages until the end of the year.

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/.