Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-11-07

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)

• Hosting IRC discussion on Wednesday November 14th 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office RfC: Session storage service interface https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010
• Hosting IRC discussion on Wednesday November 21st 11pm PST(November 22nd 07:00 UTC, 08:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office Introduce a new namespace for collaborative judgments about wiki entities https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297
• Discussed: Remove custom 'CatchableFatalErrorException' logic from Echo/Flow code bases https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208146 will be following with Growth Team to determine if it does need a RFC.
• Reviewed [RfC] Add CURRENT_TIMESTAMP support for `wl_notificationtimestamps` in watchlist table https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208487 and determined is not a RFC because there should be a way to query watchlist to filter by when items were added without a schema change.
• Reviewed: RfC: Standards for external services that integrate with MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524 coming out of TechConf and committee will continue working on it
• Architecture Principles talk page has been updated with questions and comment coming out of TechConf: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Platform_Architecture_Principles
• Reviewed: Proposal for partial opt-out method for Content security policy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208188 summary from discussion available here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208188#4730946
• There was no IRC meeting this week