Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2020-05-27

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)

For more information, see the public notes.

• Office hours 2020-06-03 16:00 UTC (9am PDT, 18:00 CEST) in #wikimedia-office RFC: Hybrid extension management https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406
• RFC: Wikimedia Push Notification Service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249065 question if ChangeProp should be used vs. the proposed path in the RFC of a new service
• RFC: Discourage use of MySQL's ENUM type https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173 should TechCom put into policy and discourage it? If DBAs agree then the committee will. If not explicitly disallowing should say when it should be used.
• RFC: Remove IE 8 from basic support https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248061 clarifying with requestors that ending basic support does mean things can stop working
• RFC: HTML element for inline media from wikitext https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251641 waiting for clarification from requesting team
• RFC: Site-wide edit rate limiting with PoolCounter https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252091 not yet agreement on using PoolCounter
• RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of Title https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776 discussing implications of getWikiId() for existing code
• Liberate the @ for AtEase https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253461 not RFC yet tagged for committee attention