Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-10-18


 * Last Call: Bump PHP requirement to 5.6 in 1.31. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538. RFC discussion minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-10-18-21.00.html
 * Next week’s IRC discussion: Don’t use FauxRequest in production code. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266
 * CommTech is looking for input on allowing extensions more control over user preferences, so they can implement global preferences. RFC discussion upcoming. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449
 * We are seeing a big JobQueue backlog again from Commons. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710
 * PDF generation: OCG has been turned off. Electron is still available, but has stability problems. ChromeDriver is being considered as an alternative.