Architecture committee/2017-06-28

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

• Last Call: Changing wikipage redirects to be proper HTTP redirects, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. “Solution 1” was accepted for last call, log at https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-06-28-21.00.log.html. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by July 12, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
• Last Call: bump MediaWiki's minimum supported MySQL Version to 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161232. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by July 12, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
• Next week’s RFC discussion: Limit concurrency of API calls, instead of applying rate limits

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167906

• Approved after last call: Drop requirement to define a talk namespace for every subject namespace, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
• Summary of week’s RFC discussion on The Great Namespaceization and Reorg: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010#3369408

Support for /data/ URLs is coming, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163921 and subtasks.