Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/How to manage our technical debt

This is a main topic discussed at the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017.

Program Committee Representatives:
 * Greg Grossmeier (Wikimedia Release Engineering)

The problem
"Technical debt" is a phrase that is commonly used when talking about MediaWiki, but different people mean different things. Let's nail down the definition of "technical debt" as it applies to our software (and build out our Technical debt page on this wiki), and then let's figure out how to manage our debt.

Proposals welcome
If you intend to lead a discussion for WikiDev17 (leading before, during, and after), please add it here. If you're unsure, or would like to discuss it first, please make a suggestion on the WikiDev17 Tech Debt talk page.

Proposals:
 * Refactoring the Interwiki Map: status and outlook -
 * Scaling the MediaWiki database schema -
 * Platforms are Products too! -
 * Asynchronous processing in production: one queue to rule them all -
 * i18n maintenance for MediaWiki and extensions -
 * (add yours)

Learn more
FIXME: useful links.