5 June 2020 MWstake Meeting

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Blank.png Date (UTC): 5 June 2020 15:30:00 - 5 June 2020 16:30:00
Blank.png URL: https://meet.google.com/mdd-ufhn-ksb
Blank.png Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mwstake-2020-06

Person.png Attendees: Bryan Hildebrand, Cindy Cicalese, Gergő Tisza, Lex Sulzer, Mark Hershberger, Markus Glaser, Peter Meyer, Rich Evans

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Meeting agenda[edit]

  1. Wait for attendees & chat 5 min
  2. Wiki Quickie 5 min TBD
  3. Agenda Item XX min TBD
  4. Wiki Watercooler remaining Open Mic

Notes[edit]

The meeting voice transcription is available on the talk page.

  1. MediaWiki Core Changes (Gergo) discussed several upcoming changes that might effect 3rd party usage
    • Stable Interface Policy
      • Helps the foundation so that they can easier change interfaces
      • Gives 3rd party devs a more reliable expectation of what portions of the code they can safely use
    • New logo syntax
      • Vector skin is being refactored (more reader friendly)
      • Splits the logo into graphic and text (wordmark) part (Phabricator)
      • Default and own logos will need to be updated
      • Can be seen on beta wikipedia
    • New hook syntax
      • Hook handlers are now objects => supports dependency injection, easier testing
      • Interfaces are now supported => more can be verified statically
      • All core hooks have been replaced
      • Stakeholders: update documentation? No, WMF team is on it
      • ACTION ITEM Is there an issue with Semantic MediaWiki? => Mark to raise this with the SMW community
      • ACTION ITEM Cindy to give Mark URL for this.
    • Abstract database schemas
      • This changes the way the database schema is updated in extensions
      • The rewrite is being done by volunteers, help is appreciated => MWStake?
      • Support for Postgres and MS SQL was removed from core, but databases can be added by extensions
    • UserOptionsManager
      • There is now only one options manager, so if you do some complex stuff with user options, please review your code - if $user1 and $user2 refer to the same user, $user1->setOption(...) used to not have an effect on $user2 before it was saved, this is different now. Can cause subtle problems in some extensions.
  2. Composer-based extension management RfC update
    • (Mark) Next step: documenting the best practices and details
    • (Markus) Who does the documentation?
    • (Mark) MWStake to take a lead in documentation
    • Somebody needs to write an exception handler. => Robert
    • Composer merge plugin (will stop working with Composer 2.0) => Cindy has an eye on this
  3. New MW release
    • (Cindy) MW 1.35 code freeze is around July 15th => Release early August
    • (Cindy) 2020-06-07: Only about three weeks between code freeze and Release ?! What about SMW and other extensions?

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#39 Jul 06, 2020Cindy Cicalese,Mark Hershberger