Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2020-01-15

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)
  • Moved to under discussion: RFC Port MobileFrontend Feature Management into core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242835> This RFC discusses the method of providing opt-in and opt-out functionality for improvements to the desktop experience of Wikimedia projects.
  • Moved to under discussion: RFC Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180> This RFC discusses the adoption of a specific tool for use in building UI components within the present architecture.
  • Discussion ongoing: Standalone service to evaluate user-provided regular expressions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240884> This RFC explores methods of checking regular expressions locally to reduce overhead while continuing to protect against denial-of-service attacks.
  • Discussion resumed: RFC Expiring watch list entries <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124752> following the implementation of wl_id on WMF sites, this RFC is no longer stalled and is open for discussion.
  • No public RFC review meeting next week.