This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.
Activity since Monday 2020-09-21 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox:
- T263904: Are traits part of the stable interface?
- New question by @DannyS712.
Committee board activity:
- T227776: General ParserCache service class for large "current" page-derived data
- @daniel's team will soon start work on this project.
- T244058: Strategy for storing old revisions in ParserCache.
- @daniel analyzed various code paths relating to this.
New RFCs:
- T263841: RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data
- @matthiasmullie started an RFC with interest from Structured Data and Search Platform teams.
Phase progression:
- T240775: RFC: Support PHP 7.4 preload
- Moves to P3.
- Interest from the Performance Team.
- T260714: RFC: Parsoid Extension API
- Moves to Last Call to be Approved on 7 Oct.
- T487: RFC: Associated namespaces
- Moves to Last Call to be Declined on 7 Oct.
- @tgr mentions that Bask Wikipedia (eu.wikipedia.org) has a "Txikipedia" namespace that could benefit from this.
IRC meeting request: (none)
Other RFC activity:
- T260330: RFC: PHP microservice for containerized shell execution
- @tstarling wrote an example to demonstrate how the Score extension could work.
- T250406: RFC: Hybrid extension management
- @RHeigl asks about next steps.
- T120085: RFC: Serve Main Page of Wikimedia wikis from a consistent URL
- @bblack indicates their team considers this an Epic Idea™. Thank you Brandon.
-- Timo