Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-10-18

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: Bump PHP requirement to 5.6 in 1.31. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538. RFC discussion minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-10-18-21.00.html
• Next week’s IRC discussion: Don’t use FauxRequest in production code. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266
• CommTech is looking for input on allowing extensions more control over user preferences, so they can implement global preferences. RFC discussion upcoming. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449
• We are seeing a big JobQueue backlog again from Commons. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710
• PDF generation: OCG has been turned off. Electron is still available, but has stability problems. ChromeDriver is being considered as an alternative.