Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-08-30

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)

• Giuseppe Lavagetto joins TechCom!
• Ongoing issue: Large job queue backlog, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710 and https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/job-queue-health
• Work started on MCR (Daniel, Anomie). Expect RFC for finalizing the data model soon. Old draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Content_Meta-Data
• IRC meeting on HTML5 (UTF8) section IDs happened. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540#3573800
• Postgres RFC approved, except for the proposed change to the representation of timestamps. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898
• Next week’s IRC: Separate "application" and "project" concerns by moving most of MediaWiki within a /core folder https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038
• Investigation on offline reading (PDF and HTML/ZIM): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171965 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172732