Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-10-25


 * Ongoing Last Call: Target PHP 5.6 for MW 1.31 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178538. If no pertinent issues remain unaddressed by November 1st, this RFC will be approved for implementation. Related: Target PHP 7 for MW 1.32 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165.
 * Outcome of this week’s IRC discussion: Usage of FauxRequest in production code is discouraged and should be considered technical debt. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169266
 * Next week’s IRC: Allowing extensions to override preferences https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178449. Beware Daylight Confusion Week!
 * Active discussion: Heredoc arguments for templates (aka "hygienic" or "long" arguments) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114432
 * TechCom to revise outdated policy pages until the end of the year.