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TechCom digest 2021-01-06
Hi all!

Here's the summary of Wednesday's TechCom meeting. Due to the holidays, there
wasn't much activity, but ther eare a few Last Calls to close, and a couple of
new ones.


Present:  Daniel K, Tim S, Timo T, Kate C.


RFC: Expand API title generator to support other generated data

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841

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T263841 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263841>RFC: Expand API title
generator to support other generated data

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At end of last call, Accepted (pending finalization per mail, due to lack of
quorum in the meeting)


RFC: Introduce PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage

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T208776 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208776>RFC: Introduce
PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage

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Some discussion on names since last meeting

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TT has outstanding concerns about migration and getWikiId()

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Keep open for another week.


RFC: Drop support for older database upgrades

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259771 

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Move to last call


RFC: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (November 2020)

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268326 

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Move to last call


Amend RFC process to allow for three last calls

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment

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TechCom is seeking to immediately amend the process such that three RFCs can
be on last call (rather than just two). Today's meeting did not have quorum
attendance, so this motion will be decided on asynchronously, and adopted by
next week if consensus is reached.

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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation