The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 2020-12-09.

Present: Daniel K, Tim S, Dan A, Timo T. RFC: PHP microservice for containerized shell execution

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330 - Approved

Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213 - Daniel to update the page - Tim to create the Gerrit group

RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (Nov 2020)

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326 - Ready for Last Call? - Discussed deprecation logistics. Currently it’s possible to have only one day between soft and hard deprecation. Talking about increasing it to at least 3 months or one full release cycle (from start to finish, aka at least 6 months).

RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776 - Ready for Last Call? - Some discussion about PageIdentity being global (with a Wiki ID) and not being a perfect drop-in replacement for Title because of that, because it suggests classes using PageIdentity support non-local pages. - Not ready for last call :) Will walk through some concrete examples for the transition from Title to PageIdentity to unblock. A suggested alternative: transition to LocalPageIdentity instead, and later to PageIdentity for users of Title that begin to support non-local pages.

RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841 - Tim will comment and ready for last call

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

-- Timo

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:52 PM Daniel Kinzler dkinzler@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 2020-11-30 on the following boards:

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

Committee inbox:

• Remove legacy ajax interface T42787

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42787 - Very old task. We should just do it.

Committee board activity:

• Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit T267213

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213 - We should just add WikiTeq to the policy page

New RFCs: none

Phase progression:

• PHP microservice for containerized shell execution (aka ShellBox)

T260330 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330

• Last call should have ended last week. Some discussion during last call period. New comment asking why this should be written in PHP.
  • Code is already merged, though not used yet.
  • Can probably be approved.
  • Amendment to the Stable interface policy T268326

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326 - Question about new requirement to wait at least thee month between hard deprecation and removal. - Moved to phase 4

• PageIdentity T208776 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776
• Thiemo (WMDE) asking about some details
  • Daniel would like this to go on last call.

Other RFC activity:

• Expand API title generator to support other generated data T263841

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841 - Tim says this is fine and should go ahead - Do we need a last call?

• Provide mechanism for defining and utilizing configuration sets for

local development and browser / API-testing tests T267928 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928 - Continued discussion after IRC meeting - Adam Wight emphasizes the need to have config controlled per-request, rather than changing config on disk.

• Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage

T214362 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362 - WMDE would like this to move forward. Resourcing is not really clear.

-- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation

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