This week things have been relatively quiet, with many engineers attending the Jerusalem Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016>. Daniel and others discussed dependency injection <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124792> at the hackathon, and a first patch was merged. With today's conclusion of the Final Comment Period, Max's proposal to require mbstring support <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129435> was officially accepted, and the corresponding patch was merged. At next week's IRC meeting, we will explore improving editing support and performance with balanced and "hygienic" transclusions. Gabriel RFC inbox T54807: Identify and remove legacy preferences from MediaWiki core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54807>, T16950: Support global preferences <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16950>: These preference-related RFCs currently don't have a clear owner, and need product input. Approved RFCs T129435 RFC: Drop support for running without mbstring <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129435> (Max, Gabriel): Most participants have expressed support. Based on the discussion, the ArchCom approved the RFC today, and Max's patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/267309/> was already merged. Under discussion T130567 RFC: Hygienic transclusions for WYSIWYG, incremental parsing & composition <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130567>, T114444 DOM scopes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114444> and T114445 Balanced templates <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114445>: (Tim) *Scheduled for IRC discussion next week.* T124792 Service Locator for MediaWiki core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124792> (Daniel): Discussed at Hackathon <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmhack2016_DI>, first patch merged <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264403/>. Implementation under way. T123753 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123753> Establish retrospective reports for Security <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/security/> and Performance <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/performance/> incidents (RobLa): Briefly discussed at last week's IRC meeting, some activity on the task. T119908 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119908> RFC: Migrate code review / management to Phabricator from Gerrit (RobLa): ArchCom is looking for more detail on CI integration, as well as background on alternatives considered for code review + CI. T108655 Standardise on how to access/register JavaScript interfaces <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108655> (Roan) Minimal version was approved and is being implemented. Discussion has begun about a second RFC for more contentious changes. T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks (in a post-processor?) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39902> (Gabriel): Solutions for highlighting links to non-existing pages in Parsoid HTML. Main question is preprocessing vs. separate metadata processed on client. Parsing and Services teams investigating performance trade-offs. T130663 RFC: Reference API requirements and options <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130663> (Timo): Working with Gabriel and others to better define the scope of the RFC and come up with a solid proposal. Relates to other on-going product goals and may be delayed on better clarification on those and gathering of other use cases / requirements. T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691> (Timo): Working on better understanding of the problem space and possible solutions. Volker gathered various considerations and challenges on the RFC’s talk page at mediawiki.org. Check them out! No activity in the last two weeks: T130528 RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130528> (no shepherd) T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the REST API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122942> (Gabriel) T124504 Transition WikiDev '16 working areas into working groups <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124504> (RobLa) T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214> (Brion) T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034> (Daniel) T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122825> (Gabriel) T128351 RFC: Notifications in core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128351> (Brion) T118517 RFC: Use <figure> for media <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517> (Brion) T88596 Improving extension management <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88596> (Daniel) T114444 RFC: Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114444> (Tim) T120164 RFC: Institute "last call" period for MediaWiki RfCs (WIP)