Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2020-12-09

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The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 2020-12-09.

Present:  Daniel K, Tim S, Dan A, Timo T.

RFC: PHP microservice for containerized shell execution

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330
• Approved

Create WikiTeq group on Gerrit

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267213
• Daniel to update the page
• Tim to create the Gerrit group

RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (Nov 2020)

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326
• Ready for Last Call?
• Discussed deprecation logistics.  Currently it’s possible to have only one day between soft and hard deprecation.  Talking about increasing it to at least 3 months or one full release cycle (from start to finish, aka at least 6 months).

RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776
• Ready for Last Call?
• Some discussion about PageIdentity being global (with a Wiki ID) and not being a perfect drop-in replacement for Title because of that, because it suggests classes using PageIdentity support non-local pages.
• Not ready for last call :)  Will walk through some concrete examples for the transition from Title to PageIdentity to unblock.  A suggested alternative: transition to LocalPageIdentity instead, and later to PageIdentity for users of Title that begin to support non-local pages.

RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841
• Tim will comment and ready for last call

Next week IRC office hours

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