Hi all!

Here are the minutes from the last ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2017-07-12.

See also the ArchCom status page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status and the RFC board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/.

Here are the minutes, for your convenience:

* Approved after Last Call: bump MediaWiki's minimum supported MySQL Version to 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161232

* Approved after Last Call: change wikipage redirects to be proper HTTP redirects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. This is currently unresourced!

* ArchCom is in the process of finalizing the Charter. Here are the changes made based on feedback given on the talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=2512175&oldid=2477875&title=Architecture_committee%2FCharter&type=revision

* Discussion ongoing: Usage of FauxRequest for internal API calls https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266. ArchCom is skeptical, but has not formulated a position. Daniel will prepare a position paper soonish.

* RFC discussion next week: Migrate to HTML5 section ids https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).