Hello all!
Here are the minutes from this week's meeting:
* Last Call: Bump PHP requirement to 5.6 in 1.31.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538>. RFC discussion minutes:
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-10-18-21.00.html>.
If no pertinent concerns remain unaddressed by November 1st, this RFC will be
approved fro implementation.
* Next week’s IRC discussion: Don’t use FauxRequest in production code.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266>
As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).
* CommTech is looking for input on allowing extensions more control over user
preferences, so they can implement global preferences. RFC discussion upcoming.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449>
* We are seeing a big JobQueue backlog again from Commons.
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710>
* PDF generation: OCG has been turned off. Electron is still available, but has
stability problems. ChromeDriver is being considered as an alternative.
You can also find our meeting minutes at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes>
See also the TechCom RFC board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>.
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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.