Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-06-20

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)

• Call for nominations of new TechCom members was closed on June 18 with 15 nominations received. We will be reviewing the candidates over the coming weeks.
• New RFC: “Implement a standardized way to track the usage of parser functions and tags”  <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197493>
• Moving towards implementation: multi-file packages for ResourceLoader <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462>.
• Moving towards implementation: “Tracking dependencies for multiple Content objects per page (MCR)” <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190063>
• Implementation in progress: “Allow users to be blocked from editing a specific article or all articles inside a namespace” <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2674>
• Interested to not record IPs for anon edit, see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133452>
• Pending alternative proposal to be written: “Use ar_page_id to determine the parent IDs for undeleted revisions”  <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193690>
• Public RFC discussion on Wednesday: “Factoring page update logic out of WikiPage”. This is about the overall architecture of the code we use to process page updates. It’s a major part of a comprehensive refactoring of the MediaWiki storage layer.  <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198075>