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RFC: Provide mechanism for configuration sets for development and tests
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on
> Wednesday. 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 2020-11-02 on the following boards:
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
>
> Committee inbox:
>
>    - T268328: Automatically index extensions in Codesearch
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268328>
>       - Daniel is raising that people effectively use Codesearch to guide
>       deprecation efforts under theStable Interface policy. As such, we should
>       define what inclusion criteria it has (or should have), and simply or
>       document how to implement that in practice through adding and removing
>       repositories from its index (esp those not hosted by Wikimedia).
>    - T267085 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267085>: Clarify
>    deprecation of method overrides
>       - A question about the stable interface policy.
>
> Committee board activity:
>
>    - T175745 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175745>: Do not
>    overwrite edits when conflicting with self
>       - Some renewed interest on this question about how MW should handle
>       when e.g. someone starts editing the same page from multiple tabs and 
> then
>       submits those edits.
>    - T227776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227776>: General
>    ParserCache service class
>       - Addshore asking for an update.
>
> New RFCs:
>
>    - T268326: RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (Nov 2020)
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326>
>       - Proposal by Daniel, to:
>          - … fill some gaps (e.g. traits, and member fields).
>          - … allow for removal without (released) deprecation if it is
>          unused in code we know about and is considered "maintained". Input 
> welcome.
>
> Phase progression:
>
>    - T266866 RFC <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266866>: Bump Basic
>    browser support to require TLS 1.2 for MediaWiki core
>       - Ed lists which Web APIs and other browser capabilities would
>       become safe to use in the base layer (HTML/CSS), as well as some JS
>       features that will automatically become available to Grade A.
>       - Ed confirmed TLS 1.2 mapping to browser names/versions.
>       - Moved to Phase 3: Explore.
>    - T260330 RFC: PHP microservice for containerized shell
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260330>
>       - Moved to Last Call last week, until 2 December (next week).
>       - Tim answered and added a section to clarify the backwards
>       compatible nature of the PHP interface in core, for third-parties that
>       would not or have not installed Shellbox.
>    - T259771: RFC: Drop support for database upgrade older than two LTS
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771>
>       - Last week's concerns about detection and failure prevention have
>       been answered by Amir.
>       - The Platform Engineering Team has filled the ownership gap for
>       this policy.
>       - Moved to Phase 4: Tune.
>
> IRC meeting request:
>
>
>    - Later today (Wed 25 Nov), this RFC will be discussed in
>    #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC:
>    RFC: Provide mechanism for configuration sets for development and tests
>    https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267928
>
>
> Other RFC activity:
>
>    - T263841 RFC <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841>: Expand API
>    title generator to support other generated data
>       - Rescoped from potential software change to policy update.
>       - Awaiting resourcing from core API steward to confirm support,
>       risk, compatibility as proposed.
>    - T250406 RFC: Hybrid extension management
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406>
>       - Conversation about what we would need to commit to for WMF
>       software, and seeking placing and approval of said resourcing.
>    - T119173: RFC: Discourage use of MySQL ENUM type
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119173>
>       - Next step is for the consensus to be turned into concrete wording
>       for the policy.
>    - T40010: RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer for WMF wikis
>    <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010:>
>       - Some general clarifications, and statistics from production.
>
>
> -- Timo
>
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