Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-08-16

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)

• Last Call for Comments: PostgreSQL schema change for consistency with MySQL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898
• Discussion (Roan): want to work on filtering edits by “revertedness”. Could use change tags, maybe.
• Work started on making MediaWiki core PSR4 compatible. Involves renaming every class in core! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010 (Tim)
• Ongoing work on migrating Job Queue to EventBus/Kafka (Gabriel)
• Discussion on how <section> tags may be used in the context of HTML5 section ID migration (T152540) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114072 (Timo)
• Active discussion: JSON schema validation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147137
• Active discussion: load multi-file packages via ResourceLoader https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462