Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-09-13
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)
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)
- Wednesdayâs IRC discussion was about all things JobQueue: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)/Job_Queue
- RFC declined as proposed: restructuring the MediaWiki repo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038. Quite a few interesting ideas were discussed though, worth revisiting.
- Ongoing beta test: Using the Kafka based EventBus for JobQueues https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157088
- Next weekâs IRC discussion: Interrupt mutex manager (refactoring/generalizing PoolCounter) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161749
- PDF generation: Reading is taking ownership of Electron service; OCG scheduled to be shut down by the end of the month.
- Work starting on splitting out user information from the revision table (Brad)
- The program committee for the developer summit has been selected: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018#Program_Committee