Hi all!
Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2017-06-28.
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:
* Last Call: Changing wikipage redirects to be proper HTTP redirects, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. “Solution 1” was accepted for last call, log at https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-06-28-21.00.log.html. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by July 12, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
* Last Call: bump MediaWiki's minimum supported MySQL Version to 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161232. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by July 12, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
* Next week’s RFC discussion: Limit concurrency of API calls, instead of applying rate limits https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167906. As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).
* Approved after last call: Drop requirement to define a talk namespace for every subject namespace, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
* Summary of week’s RFC discussion on The Great Namespaceization and Reorg: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010#3369408
* Support for /data/ URLs is coming, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163921 and subtasks.
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