Hi all,

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

* Discussed: Strategy for PHP interface changes < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613%3E. This RFC proposes policies and strategies to mitigate problems arising from the need to change PHP interfaces that are implemented by classes defined by extensions. In particular, it proposes a separate policy that defines the stable interface for use by extensions, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_Interface_Policy.

* Discussed: Reconsider how we run QUnit unit tests < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521%3E. This RFC proposes restructuring unit tests away from using QUnit.

* Discussed: Serve Main Page of WMF wikis from a consistent URL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120085. This RFC proposes serving a wiki’s main page from the domain root. The configuration option has been merged as disabled by default, and the RFC is ready for discussion with stakeholders.

* Discussed: Need to clarify consequences of approved RFC Define criteria for setting explicit PHP support target for MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228342. Guidelines established by this RFC should be available on mediawiki.org, including process for announcing changes to the PHP version required for core on wikitech-l.

* Hosted IRC discussion on Core REST API namespace and version < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T23248%3E Minutes: < https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2019/wikimedia-office.201...

Log: < https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2019/wikimedia-office.201...

* No IRC meeting next week

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/.

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Best, - Alex