Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2019-07-24

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)

Two RFCs are going on Last Call until August 27:

• "Heredoc" arguments for templates <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114432>
• Abstract schemas and schema changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231>

If no objections remain unaddressed by August 7, these RFCs will be approved as proposed and amended. If you care about this RFCs, please comment on phabricator -- in support, or raising concerns. The Last Call period is not just for raising objections, but also for confirming consensus.

We had an IRC meeting about "Merge Extension:Theme into core". There was good progress made on the mechanics of adding support for theme based LESS variables to Resource Loader. The discussion about actually merging the extension into core is ongoing on the ticket. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122924>

Other topics under active discussion:

• strategy for handling PHP interface changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613>
• future of relational datastore at WMF after the upgrade of MariaDB 10.1 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193224>
• Store WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214362>