There is something I came across that I'd like to briefly discuss briefly during the meeting:

It would be nice if the updater could change default settings. This way, we could make some behavior the default for new wikis, while keeping old behavior for existing wikis. I envision an DefaultOverrides.php file that the installer would append to. It would be in .gitignore, but I'm not sure where it should be located.

Point in case: Wikis that share the user table should also share the actor table. But we haven't been doing that so far, and wikis that now already have a shared user table but per-wiki actor tables are rather ticket to migrate. So we could add the actor table to wgSharedTables per default, but tell the installer to override that for wikis that already have out-of-sync actor tables. See T243276#6519078. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243276#6519078

Am 06.10.20 um 12:18 schrieb Giuseppe Lavagetto:

This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.

Activity since Monday 2020-09-28 on the following boards:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/

Committee inbox:

• T264334 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264334: Could the registered module manifest be removed from the client?

  o

   New task about the possibility of removing the huge module registry
   from the js sent to the client. The idea is being discussed.
  
  

Committee board activity: Nothing to report, besides inbox

New RFCs: none.

Phase progression:

• T262946 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262946: Bump Firefox version in basic support to 3.6 or newer

  o

   Moves to P3 (explore)
  
  

  o

   It is pointed out that we’ve dropped support in production for TLS
   1.0/1.1 in january, so de facto only Firefox 27+ is able to connect to
   the wikimedia sites
  
  

  o

   In light of that, it’s suggested that we might bump the minimum
   supported versions of browsers further.
  
  

IRC meeting request: none

Other RFC activity:

• T260714 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714: Parsoid Extension API.

  o

   Last call to be approved, that will end on October 7 (tomorrow)
  
  

• T487 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T487: RfC: Associated namespaces.

  o

   On last call to be declined, there is some opposition to the
   opportunity of marking it as declined on phabricator. Last call should
   end on October 7 (tomorrow)
  
  

• T263841 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841: RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data.

  o

   Erik asks if this is going to be generally applied to all generators
   or not.
  
  

Cheers, Giuseppe -- Giuseppe Lavagetto Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

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The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 7 October 2020.

Present: Daniel K, Giuseppe L, Dan A, Timo T. RFC T260714: Parsoid Extension API

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714 -

Last Call ended. No objections on ticket nor otherwise brought to us. -

Approved.

RFC T487: Associated namespaces

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T487 -

Last Call ended. Discussion about the process. Task to remain open, but decline as proposed.

FYI: Heavy Wing - Machine Learning at WMF

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U8PKfotPUFmEXH1EXrQwqlccFE8i7smlQtxMrTAM...

Controlling HTTP cache around cookies and privileged content is hard

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264631 -

Yes, it’s hard. -

TT: We have three or four layers in MW to defend against this going wrong. I’ll comment about past work around cookie blocks and error pages which relates to this.

Next week IRC office hours

No IRC discussion scheduled for next week.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:19 AM Giuseppe Lavagetto glavagetto@wikimedia.org wrote:

This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.

Activity since Monday 2020-09-28 on the following boards:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/

Committee inbox:

T264334 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264334: Could the registered module manifest be removed from the client?

• New task about the possibility of removing the huge module registry from the js sent to the client. The idea is being discussed.

Committee board activity: Nothing to report, besides inbox

New RFCs: none.

Phase progression:

T262946 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262946: Bump Firefox version in basic support to 3.6 or newer

• Moves to P3 (explore)

  It is pointed out that we’ve dropped support in production for TLS 1.0/1.1 in january, so de facto only Firefox 27+ is able to connect to the wikimedia sites

  In light of that, it’s suggested that we might bump the minimum supported versions of browsers further.

IRC meeting request: none

Other RFC activity:

T260714 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714: Parsoid Extension API.

• Last call to be approved, that will end on October 7 (tomorrow)

T487 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T487: RfC: Associated namespaces.

• On last call to be declined, there is some opposition to the opportunity of marking it as declined on phabricator. Last call should end on October 7 (tomorrow)

T263841 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841: RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data.

• Erik asks if this is going to be generally applied to all generators or not.

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