Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-08-29

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)

• Accepted as RFC: RFC: Multiblocks - let admins create multiple, overlapping blocks on a single user https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202673
• Hosting IRC discussion on 5 September 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office RfC: ParallelMaintenance helper class for multi-process maintenance scripts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201970 This RFC aims to parallelize long running maintenance scripts to allow them to be spread out across multiple CPUs.
• Last Call (ending 5 September 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET). RFC: Block users by page, namespace, and/or action (Partial Blocks) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199917
• Hosted IRC discussion on: RFC: Modern Event Platform: Schema Registry / Metadata Service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201643
  • Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-29-21.00.html
  • Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-29-21.00.log.html
• Rejected as RFC because it is no longer relevant: Write and implement MediaWiki RFC report bot https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60250