Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-02-07

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)

• Kate Chapman joining TechCom as a facilitator https://wonderchook.com/about/
• New ORES cluster should be coming up in the coming week
• TechCom is working with ATWG on a plan for evolving the MediaWiki platform over the next fiscal year. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Audiences_Technology_Working_Group
• Last week’s RFC discussion: MediaWiki support for Composer equivalent for JavaScript packages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107561. Log https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-01-31-22.00.html
• RFC declined after last call: MediaWiki Action API is a unique API specification https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180096
• New RFC: Provide an inline discussion feature, "DiscussThis" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185607. Technical discussion is mostly about how to do position tracking.
• New RFC: MediaWiki entry points should not be in the base repo directory https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180394
• New RFC: Normalize change tag schema https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355.
• Last Call for comments on approving “Stop logging autopatrol actions” https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184485.