Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2019-05-22

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.

Summary for TechCom Radar

• Last Call ending July 6th 05:00 UTC/07:00 CEST/July 5 22:00 PDT: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297 Introduce a new namespace for collaborative judgements about wiki entities
• IRC Meeting in #wikimedia-office to discuss this IRC on Wednesday May 29 at 21:00 UTC/23:00 CEST/14:00 PDT: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221177 Route Handler Interface RFC.
• Reviewed Office Hours from Hackathon

Agenda

• CTO Hiring, Daniel started write-up with interview topics and questions.
• TechCom workboard triage
  • Inbox
    • T223646: Create a policy on importing global classes. Coding style question on whether to import top-level classes with “use”.
  • Activity FYI:
    • T222827: Next TechCom office hours will be live at Hackathon!
    • T161647: Policy against storing data in the serialized-PHP format. Now documented on mediawiki.org.
    • T211721: Session store service SLA. Discussion on-going. Almost complete?
    • T222388: Special page Dependency Injection. Daniel notes the relationship with dependency injection for REST API code.
  • TechCom-RFC workboard triage
    • Inbox:
      • T221177 Route Handler Interface RFC.
        • Tim moved it to Requesting IRC Meeting.
      • T200297 JADE: James Hare moved it to Inbox in order to get it on-track towards approval.
        • Has consensus been achieved?
    • Activity FYI:
      • T222224: MW link table normalisation RFC (discussion on-going)
      • T208776: Introduce PageIdentity interface for MW (discussion on-going)