Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2019-10-09

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)

• Announcement: Guidelines established by approved RFC Define criteria for setting explicit PHP support target for MediaWiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228342> are available at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Support_policy_for_PHP>.

• Last call: Core REST API namespace and version <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232485>. This RFC proposes a namespace and version policy for routes in the MediaWiki REST API.

• Discussed: Section header "share" link <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691>. This RFC aims to make it easier for readers to share links to sections on wiki pages.

• Discussed: New Skin for Desktop Improvements Project <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234907>. This RFC discusses the approach for implementing broad UI changes to the desktop interface of Wikimedia projects.

• Discussed: Strategy for PHP interface changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193613>. This RFC proposes policies and strategies to mitigate problems arising from the need to change PHP interfaces that are implemented by classes defined by extensions. In particular, it proposes a separate policy that defines the stable interface for use by extensions, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_Interface_Policy>.

• No IRC meeting next week.