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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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
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