Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-08-23

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)

• Feedback wanted on the progressing effort to re-organize PHP namespaces for MediaWiki core: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010 (Tim)
• Work on Multi-Content-Revisions is picking up https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Multi-Content_Revisions (Daniel)
• Updated RFC, feedback wanted: load multi-file packages via ResourceLoader https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462 (Timo)
• Active discussion: Bump MW requirements to PHP 5.6 (or 7.x) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165
• Active discussion: Move most files in the MediaWiki repo to a /core folder https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038
• TechCom is working with Rachel to define the scope of the next Developer Summit, and set up a programme committee.
• IRC meeting on August 30: HTML5 section IDs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 (Max)