Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes/2020-10-07

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The minutes from TechCom's triage meeting on 7 October 2020.

Present: Daniel K, Giuseppe L, Dan A, Timo T.

RFC T260714: Parsoid Extension API

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714
• Last Call ended. No objections on ticket nor otherwise brought to us.
• Approved.

RFC T487: Associated namespaces

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T487
• Last Call ended. Discussion about the process. Task to remain open, but decline as proposed.

FYI: Heavy Wing - Machine Learning at WMF

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U8PKfotPUFmEXH1EXrQwqlccFE8i7smlQtxMrTAM6GE/edit

Controlling HTTP cache around cookies and privileged content is hard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264631
• Yes, it’s hard.
• TT: We have three or four layers in MW to defend against this going wrong. I’ll comment about past work around cookie blocks and error pages which relates to this.

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