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 Tuesday 2020-12-08 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox: (none)
Committee board activity:
- T42787 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42787> Remove legacy ajax
interface
- I moved from Inbox to Watching
- T267213 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213> Create WikiTeq
group on Gerrit
- Kizule is asking for an update.
- It seems there are two things to do: create the group and update
the policy.
New RFCs: (none)
Phase progression: (none)
IRC meeting request: (none)
Other RFC activity:
- T263841 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841> RFC: Expand API
title generator to support other generated data
- There is a new proposal text. Please comment.
- T259771 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771>: RFC: Drop support
for database upgrade older than two LTS releases.
- Discussion on the task. To me it looks mostly in favor or commenting
that some of the problems are not fully solved by this proposal.
- T268326 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326> RFC: Amendment to
the Stable interface policy (November 2020)
- Feedback given about the proposed 3 month minimum period
- T119173 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173>: RFC: Discourage
use of MySQL's ENUM type.
- Amir showed how to automatically generate on-wiki documentation for
tables.
- T133452 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133452>: RFC: Create
temporary accounts for anonymous editors.
- Many comments after Tim proposed to use cloaks (see his comment in the
task for details)
- T214362 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362>: RFC: Store
WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage.
- Krinkle asked for clarifications. Lucas responded with a comment and
Lydia offered to have it explained in a call.
- T208776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776>: RFC: Introduce
PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage.
- Krinkle and Daniel discuss implementation details in context of what's
best for type safety, clarity and migration.
-Niklas