Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-01-17

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)

• Developer Summit coming up! Most TechCom members will be there. The goal is to provide input to the strategy process from a technical perspective. The session on “Evolving the MediaWiki architecture” strongly aligned with TechCom’s scope. It is being prepared on phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P6622, comments welcome!
• HtmlCacheUpdate jobs migrated to Kafka based ChangeProp mechanism. Looking good!
• Ongoing issue: Stack overflow when redis is down https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185055. Probably caused by upstream issue in HHVM’s redis extension.
• Approved after Last Call: Introduce PlatformSettings.php https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182020
• Not approved after Last Call, due to ongoing discussion about scalability and usability issues: Page Creation Log https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12331
• New RFC: Don’t log autopatrol events https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184485
• Active discussion: insecure anon edit token https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40417
• No RFC discussion on January 24th due to everyone being at the Summit or All-Hands. Discussion topic for January 31st to be announced. Tentative: MediaWiki support for Composer equivalent for JavaScript packages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107561