Architecture committee/2017-07-19

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 for Comments: ArchCom (TechCom) Charter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter
  If no new and pertinent concerns remain unaddressed by July 26, the charter will be enacted as the new basis of the committee’s operation and authority.
• Ongoing work on implementing JobQueue on top of EventBus: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157088
• Ongoing discussion: <section> tags https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114072
• Decision pending on PDF rendering technology https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159922
• Ongoing work on refactoring the edit filter extension point in EditPage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170184
• Renewed interest in global preferences: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170222
• Renewed interest in shadow namespaces: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91162
• Approved after Last Call: Deprecate use of php serialization https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161647
• No public meeting on IRC next week