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