This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting. 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 2020-09-21 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox:
- T263904 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263904>: Are traits part
of the stable interface?
- New question by @DannyS712.
Committee board activity:
- T227776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227776>: General
ParserCache service class for large "current" page-derived data
- @daniel's team will soon start work on this project.
- T244058 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244058>: Strategy for
storing old revisions in ParserCache.
- @daniel analyzed various code paths relating to this.
New RFCs:
- T263841 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841>: RFC: Expand API
title generator to support other generated data
- @matthiasmullie started an RFC with interest from Structured Data
and Search Platform teams.
Phase progression:
- T240775 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240775>: RFC: Support PHP
7.4 preload
- Moves to P3.
- Interest from the Performance Team.
- T260714: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714> RFC: Parsoid
Extension API
- Moves to Last Call to be *Approved* on 7 Oct.
- T487 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T487>: RFC: Associated
namespaces
- Moves to Last Call to be *Declined* on 7 Oct.
- @tgr mentions that Bask Wikipedia (
eu.wikipedia.org) has a "
Txikipedia <https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txikipedia:Azala>"
namespace that could benefit from this.
IRC meeting request: (none)
Other RFC activity:
- T260330: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330> RFC: PHP
microservice for containerized shell execution
- @tstarling wrote an example to demonstrate how the Score extension
could work.
- T250406 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406>: RFC: Hybrid
extension management
- @RHeigl asks about next steps.
- T120085 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120085>: RFC: Serve Main
Page of Wikimedia wikis from a consistent URL
- @bblack indicates their team considers this an Epic Idea™. Thank
you Brandon.
-- Timo