Architecture committee/2017-07-12

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

• Approved after Last Call: bump MediaWiki's minimum supported MySQL Version to 5.5 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161232
• Approved after Last Call: change wikipage redirects to be proper HTTP redirects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. This is currently unresourced!
• ArchCom is in the process of finalizing the Charter. Here are the changes made based on feedback given on the talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=2512175&oldid=2477875&title=Architecture_committee%2FCharter&type=revision
• Discussion ongoing: Usage of FauxRequest for internal API calls https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266. ArchCom is skeptical, but has not formulated a position. Daniel will prepare a position paper soonish.
• RFC discussion next week: Migrate to HTML5 section ids https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540