Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2020-06-24

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)

For more information, see the [1].

Last Call: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (T255803)

• Ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255803
• No big change in substance from the policy adopted in March
• Draft policy: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Stable_interface_policy
• Description of: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Stable_interface_policy/Changes
• The new policy is on Last Call until July 8th. If you have any concerns about the draft, please comment on the ticket. If no concerns remain unaddressed by July 8, the draft will be adopted as the new policy.

Approved: Drop support for IE 8 (T248061)

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248061
• Support for IE 8 will be maintained for the upcoming 1.35 release
• Code needed for IE 8 support can be dropped from master (and Wikimedia sites) after 1.35 * has been branched in July.

No office hours scheduled for next week.