TechCom Meeting 2020-06-24

[Daniel Kinzler]

Notes from TechCom's triage meeting on 2020-06-24

Present: Dan, Daniel, Niklas, Roan, Tim, Timo

Last Call: Amendment to the Stable interface policy (T255803)

• Ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255803

• Timo has revised the current policy as adopted in T193613, mostly for presentation.

• Wording of stability tags has been changed.

• Draft policy: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Stable_interface_policy

• Description of: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Stable_interface_policy/Changes 

• Was not sure whether it should be an RFC, but decided to make it an RFC.

• Moved to Last Call on July 8th.

Approved: Drop support for IE 8 (T248061)

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248061

• No concerns remain after the Last Call period

• Support for IE 8 will be maintained for the upcoming 1.35 release

• Code needed for IE 8 support can be dropped from master (and Wikimedia sites) after 1.35 has been branched in July.

TechCom to send regular overview of Wikimedia development policies.

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164538

• TechCom will regularly send an email about development policies and guidelines  to wikitech-l, for the benefit of new contributors

• Timo has agreed to send the first mail soon.

TechCom intents to shift its activity towards a public forum

• WIP draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Architecture_Forum
  

• Forum will be distinct from the “architecture forum”, which has a scope limited to decision making about system architecture

• Name of the new forum is unclear. “Technical Forum” may be used as a working title.

• Several members are in favor of using wikitech-l as the venue for cross-cutting technical discussion and decision making. Discussion ongoing.

Next week IRC office hours

• No office hours scheduled

Workboards:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/