Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-10-11

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)

• OCG has been turned off. Electron is a temporary replacement.
• CommTech is seeking guidance on global preference implementation. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-October/088980.html
• Ops had to turn off Wikidata RecentChanges integration on big wikis for performance reasons, looking into workarounds: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177707
• This week’s IRC discussion: Move rpc/RunJobs.php to core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175146. You can find the minutes at https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-10-11-21.01.html
• Next week’s IRC discussion: Requiring PHP 7 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165