Thanks for this helpful overview, Gabriel! Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > please have a look at this week's summary of new and ongoing RFC > discussions. There are several new RFCs, and some existing ones are moving > close to a decision. No RFCs were decided finally this week. > > Because of the parallel Hackathon, no IRC discussion is scheduled for next > week. > > Gabriel > > New RFCs: > > T130663 WIP RFC: Reference API requirements and options > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130663> (Timo): API access and > component markup for references; focus on gathering use cases / > requirements. > > T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the REST API > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122942> (Gabriel): Different options > for supporting languange variant selection in the REST API. Needed for > languages like Chinese. > > T122825 Service Ownership and Maintenance > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122825> (Gabriel): Ownership and > minimum maintenance requirements for production services. Strongly driven > by unclear ownership of OCG (PDF renderer). > > T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks (in a post-processor?) > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39902> (Gabriel): Solutions for > highlighting links to non-existing pages in Parsoid HTML. Main question is > preprocessing vs. separate metadata processed on client. > > T130528 RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130528> (No shepherd): Exploring use > of > standard PHP cache interface. > > Today's IRC session: > > T124792 Service Locator for MediaWiki core > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124792> (Daniel): Introduce a service > locator (aka DI container) to allow code in mediaWiki core to make use of > the Dependency Injection (DI) and Service Locator (SL) patterns. > > The discussion showed general support. Several participants expressed a > desire to write more code with it before making a final call. Concrete > suggestions on areas would be welcome. Tentative working group forming, > aiming to discuss at Jerusalem Hackathon. > > Under discussion: > > T129435 RFC: drop support for running without mbstring > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129435> (Gabriel): Very focused RFC by > Max. Main question in discussion so far is whether polyfilling is worth it. > Max reaching out to mediawiki-l. > > T108655 Standardise on how to access/register JavaScript interfaces > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108655> (Roan): No update since last > week, I need to split this task but I haven’t had time to yet. Last week’s > update: > > Considering to split out contentious part (file-based require, or something > like it; to support embedding libraries), move forward on less > controversial part (basic module-name-based require infrastructure) > > T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691> (Timo): Under discussion with > Volker and Frontend Standards Group. Volker and team to collect different > benefits and concerns to determine whether this is generally a desirable > feature. And to explore other conceptually different solutions to the > underlying use case of “sharing a link to a section” (e.g. a better table > of contents, or live address bar). > > T124504 Transition WikiDev '16 working areas into working groups > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124504> (RobLa): No concrete progress; > MZMcBride advocates for organic growth. > > T128351 RfC: Notifications in core > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128351> (Brion): No movement last > week. > Needs clarification of interfaces & scope as follow-up from IRC meeting. > > T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb > API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214> (Brion): Clarified > requirements & priorities in last week's IRC discussion. Needs update to > reflect discussion. > > T118517 [RFC] Use <figure> for media > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517> (Brion): Revisit soon. > > T88596 Improving extension management > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88596> (Daniel): Discussion is picking > up again, patch for review. > > T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034> (Daniel): Has been discussed > before, needs somebody to actually take this on. > > T114444 [RFC] Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114444> (Tim): Active related > discussion and prototyping at Balanced templates > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114445> and Hygienic transclusions for > WYSIWYG, incremental parsing & composition: Options and trade-offs > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130567>. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - 415 480 4577 - http://scottmacleod.com - Please donate to tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) - World University and School - via PayPal, or credit card, here - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - or send checks to - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
