Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2017-08-09

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)

This was a public meeting during the Wikimania Hackathon. Thanks to everyone who participated!

• New RFC: Attribute anonymous contributions to the first IP address used in a session https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172477
• NOT approved after last call, more discussion needed: HTML5 section ids https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540
• Input wanted: Allow anonymous recent changes to be filtered by IP range https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172376 (not resourced)
• Media format switching to webm for video (Brion)
• ContentTranslation to use VE, server-side adaptation logic (Roan)
• Progress on raising minimum PHP version for MediaWiki to 5.6/7 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172165
• Input wanted: use-cases for delayed job execution https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172832
• Active discussion: moving most of MediaWiki within a /core folder https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038
• TechCom to think about QA strategies/guidelines over the coming weeks (code review, test coverage, etc).