[Wikitech-l] Feedback requested: dropping PHP 7.2 support for MediaWiki 1.35

Hi all, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257879 recommends dropping support for PHP 7.2 in the upcoming MediaWiki 1.35 release. (It would still be supported in master as it will probably take months for Wikimedia production to switch.) Tl;dr: 1.35 is an LTS release which we'll support for 3

[Wikitech-l] [FYI] Identifying candidates for Gerrit CR+2 permissions

I've been wondering for a while [1] about a way to get a list of quite active reviewers in Wikimedia Gerrit who have not +2'ed any proposed changes in Gerrit, implying that these developers don't have +2 permissions [2] and could be candidates to receive +2 permissions. Last weekend I created a

[Wikitech-l] [Tooling] All code is built

Greetings! I've written a brief blog that describes how Wikimedia uses optional build steps as an enhancement to ResourceLoader and our evolving pipeline. If you use ResourceLoader in your projects, you may find it helpful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/206/all_code_is_built/