Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-10-25

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)

• Ongoing Last Call: Target PHP 5.6 for MW 1.31 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by November 1st, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
  Related: Target PHP 7 for MW 1.32 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165.
• Outcome of this week’s IRC discussion: Usage of FauxRequest in production code is discouraged and should be considered technical debt. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266
• Next week’s IRC: Allowing extensions to override preferences https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449. Beware Daylight Confusion Week!
• Active discussion: Heredoc arguments for templates (aka "hygienic" or "long" arguments) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114432
• TechCom to revise outdated policy pages until the end of the year.