Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-09-20

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: Introduce InterruptMutexManager. While the intent seems uncontroversial, some details may need further discussion. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161749
• Deadline for applications for the Developer Summit is approaching: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018
• New Special Interest Group launched: Technical Debt: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Debt_SIG
• New RFC about safely executing user-provided regular expressions. Lots of options to discuss https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176312
• New RFC about consolidating the rpc/RunJobs.php entry point with MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175146
• Last week’s discussion about the JobQueue turned up some interesting points particularly about de-duplication and scheduling, in particular with respect to the upcoming switch to a EventBus/Kafka based job queue. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)/Job_Queue
• A draft of the database schema for MCR is up for discussion: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/378724/ and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Database_Schema
• Next week’s IRC discussion: Open discussion about how long we need/want to keep support for HHVM. Thread on wikitech: https://lists.gt.net/wiki/wikitech/844711. RFC about bumping the PHP version (for context) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165. As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).