Architecture committee/2017-07-05

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)

• New Last Call: Deprecate use of PHP serialization https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161647. The RFC has been updated since the IRC discussion
• Ongoing Last Call: Bump required MySQL version to 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161232
• Ongoing Last Call: Change wikipage redirects to be proper HTTP redirects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736
• Ongoing discussion regarding using FauxRequest for internal calls to the API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266. There was rough consensus at the hackathon in Leon that application logic using FauxRequest leads to bad code. Some more discussion of the pros and cons and possible use cases seems useful.
• Sections are getting human readable IDs, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540. See also the thread on “Human-readable section IDs” on wikitech-l (Max Semenik, July 8th).
• Approved after Last Call: Reading List Service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990. The DB schema may need some polishing. ArchCom discussed using page IDs instead of namespace+title, but decided that this is really a product decision, depending on the desired behavior.
• There is no IRC meeting scheduled for next week, as the Architecture Committee will focus on finalizing the Charter. Last minute comments are welcome on the talk page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter