Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2018-09-12

An invite-only video discussion, where decisions are often finalized, generally Wednesday 13:00 USA West coast local time as of this writing. This meeting is often used for grooming the backlog for the TechCom-RFC board. (private minutes)

• Hosted IRC discussion on: RfC: Create a proper command-line runner for MediaWiki maintenance tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99268 this RFC proposes to create an organized structure and runner for running of maintenance tasks.
  • Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-09-11-21.00.html
  • Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-09-11-21.00.log.html
• Discussed: Replace docs/design.txt with a reasonably complete summary of mw:Architectural_guidelines https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111283 and plan to copy the doc to a wiki from the repo
• On Last Call Ending 26 September 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET): Harmonise the identification of requests across our stack https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201409
• RFC Approved: Add support for Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers in MediaWiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135963 The initial phase of this RFC had been previously approved and another RFC has been requested related to a registry to opt-in and connect to 3rd party services.
• Discussed new draft of the MediaWiki Platform Architecture Principles:
  • New draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Platform_Architecture_Principles/Draft_9-2018
  • Previous draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Platform_Architecture_Principles
• No IRC meeting next week
• Noted: Datacenter switch occurred this week