Hi All,

Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting:

* Approved: RFC: Modern Event Platform - Choose Schema Tech https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198256

* On Last Call (ending 5 September 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET). RFC: Block users by page, namespace, and/or action (Partial Blocks) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199917

* Hosted an IRC discussion for: Introduce a new namespace for collaborative judgments about wiki entities https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297      * Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-22-21.00.html      * Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-22-21.00.log.html

* Accepted as a new RFC and will host IRC discussion on 29 August 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office: RFC: Modern Event Platform: Schema Registry / Metadata Service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201643 This RFC outlines the current state of event schema registries and then options for where to go forward. The recommendation is to develop a new schema registry / metadata service.

* Accepted as a new RFC and will be scheduling IRC meeting soon: ParallelMaintenance helper class for multi-process maintenance scripts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201970 this change would allow parallelizing of long running maintenance scripts.

* Accepted as a new RFC and will be scheduling IRC meeting soon: RfC: Create a proper command-line runner for MediaWiki maintenance tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99268 this RFC proposes to create an organized structure and runner for running of maintenance tasks.

* Accepted as a new RFC and will be scheduling IRC meeting soon: RFC: Modern Event Platform: Scalable Event Intake Service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201963 This RFC's goal is to decide if we should use something other than EventLogging/EventBus and lays out two possible options in addition to staying with the EventLogging/EventBus

* Accepted as RFC, but needs more information prior to IRC meeting: Consolidate WikiPage action and special page systems https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201967 originally brought up in 2011 this RFC seeks to unify the way that page actions are done.

You can also find our meeting minutes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes

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Thanks,

Kate