Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-02-28

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)

• RFC IRC Meeting: Make some aspects of Tidy's whitespace stripping behavior part of wikitext parsing "spec" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157418 Meeting Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-02-28-22.02.html
• RFC IRC Meeting 2018-03-07 in the #wikimedia-office channel at 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Normalize change tag schema https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355
• RFC Discussed and Declined as not needed at this time: RFC associated user accounts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188197
• Actor table merged and available in Mediawiki core: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167246
• Refactor of profiler code in beta: Profiling for X-Wikimedia-Debug seems to start fairly late https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180183
• Singapore/Eqsin data center coming online
• Request from Legal to collaborate on a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). If anybody has familiarity with creating a VPAT, please reach out to Cindy Cicalese