Architecture Summit 2014/Attendees
This is an invitation-only event. The target audience are mainly project maintainers and other developers involved in Requests for Comment and, in general, the future evolution of MediaWiki and related software components. All participants must specify their current involvement in the MediaWiki project, the RFC(s) that are promoting and the main future topics they want to discuss.
Participants[edit]
| Name & affiliation |
Role | RFCs… | How I'll help | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| …commented | …to discuss | |||
| Rob Lanphier
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Facilitating, probably some note-taking, quite possibly moderating at least some of the discussion | mainly Architecture guidelines | Parsoid/Roadmap, TitleValue (talk), Global scripts (talk) | moderation, facilitation, and and note-taking primarily |
| Tomasz Finc
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Highlighting mobile development needs | mainly internal team discussions | Deprecating inline styles (talk) | Providing perspective for features based initiatives |
| Mark Holmquist
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Representing Multimedia team's needs, wearing front-end developer hat | None really, but participated in offline discussions | Image information (talk), Support for user-specific page lists in core (talk), likely others as discussion plays out | Could do note-taking and help with prototyping maybe |
| Tyler Romeo
N/A; New York |
Discussing RFC designs, commenting on current proposals, ensuring security is taken into account | Password requirements (talk), Clean up URLs (talk), maybe others | Login security (talk), AuthStack (talk), Password requirements (talk), Deprecating inline styles (talk) | Prototyping solutions, editing RFCs for clarification |
| Gabriel Wicke
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Discuss Parsoid, storage services, HTML only wikis, ESI caching, packaging, .. | Parsoid/Roadmap, Clean up URLs (talk), Deprecating inline styles (talk), Allow styling in templates (talk), Partial page caching (talk), API roadmap (talk), DataStore (talk) | Parsoid/Roadmap, User:GWicke/Notes/Storage (RFC in development), Partial page caching (talk), TitleValue (talk) | Present current implementation status and prototypes, discuss next steps and long-term vision, provide feedback on RFCs and help edit them. |
| Dan Garry
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Representing the platform engineering team, in particular MediaWiki Core. Discussing platform projects with people from other teams. | None at present. Tim made me aware of the RfCs recently, and has asked me to get involved. | Unsure at present. See above. | Can talk about each project that's being worked on with me as PM (OAuth, CirrusSearch, admin tools, SUL finalisation, SecurePoll improvements, central CSS/JS code). |
| Howie Fung
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Observer | None | None | Happy to help out in whatever capacity the team needs. |
| Daniel Kinzler | Senior Developer at the Wikidata project | -/- | TitleValue (talk) | Provide insight into the best practices and experiences at the Wikidata project. |
| Nik Everett
Wikimedia Foundation; Raleigh, North Carolina |
Developer | Simplify thumbnail cache (talk), URL shortener (talk) (via IRC I think), LESS (talk), CirrusSearch (talk) (my baby), Scoping site CSS (talk) | I have none at this point. | Hopefully insightful comments. |
| Chad | Developer | Configuration database (talk), Extension release management (talk) | Drop actions in favour of page views and special pages (talk), Abstract table definitions (talk) | I'm opinionated :) |
| Bryan Davis
Wikimedia Foundation; Boise, Idaho |
Developer, "Outsider" perspective | Simplify thumbnail cache (talk) | Simplify thumbnail cache (talk) (author), Architecture guidelines | Comments, Questions, Other duties as assigned |
| Jon Robson
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Developer | - | January is a while away so it's hard to say but Styling in templates and RL template support (to be written up) | - |
| Chris Steipp
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Security perspective, platform's needs, developer | Allow styling in templates, Alternative Commons Domains | Login security (talk), AuthStack (talk), Deprecating inline styles (talk), Password requirements (talk) | Contribute to the conversation |
| Brad Jorsch; Wikimedia Foundation; North Carolina | Developer | Architecture guidelines, API roadmap (talk), Scoping site CSS (talk), Support for user-specific page lists in core (talk), various others | Architecture guidelines, API roadmap (talk) | Contribute to discussion, write code, hopefully provide some useful "enwiki community" perspective too |
| MZMcBride | serial commentator and sassmaster; heavily involved in bug triaging, process, and meta-process; somewhat involved in user support, end-user documentation, and code/project development; rarely involved in writing code | http://p.defau.lt/?Jeej070LOvSBRQlt7RQsOA | no idea | providing institutional memory, providing first-hand experience of the RFC process (Reimplement info action (talk), Add developer link to footer of Wikimedia wikis (talk)), note-taking, &c.; side note/humblebrag: I'm the reason the RFC process still exists (there was a past effort to merge it into the older review queue that I nixed ;-) |
| Aaron Schulz
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
platform's needs, developer | Architecture guidelines, thumbnail cache | Login security (talk), AuthStack (talk), Architecture guidelines | Contribute to the conversation |
| Sean Pringle; Wikimedia Foundation; Australia | DBA | - | - | Contribute to the conversation |
| Siebrand Mazeland
Wikimedia Foundation, translatewiki.net; Netherlands |
keep an eye i18n/L10n needs | Not that many | Updated i18n format, MediaWiki independent i18n (mostly for frontend) | How I'll help: Keep forward momentum |
| Mark Hershberger
Release manager |
Tarball construction, working with third parties, supporting MW users, occasional bug fixes | API roadmap | Opt-in site registration during installation (talk) | Make sure small user's needs are considered, working with orgs like CPanel and VirtualMin |
| Markus Glaser
Release manager; Germany |
release manager, working with 3rd party users (mainly in enterprise context), BlueSpice, Wikimedia Germany | Cirrus_search, Login Security, Site registration, Extension release management | Parsoid, MediaWiki Foundation, Configration database | note taking, bring in view of 3rd party users, alternative funding models, integration with other software |
| Erik Bernhardson
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Developer | - | - | - |
| Steven Walling
WMF product mis-manager, San Francisco |
Primarily observer, may contribute some | LESS (co-author), Workflow, Clean up URLs, Grid system | Support for user-specific page lists in core, Grid system, Password requirements | I'll do all non-technical scutwork as needed, including note-taking, product/design review as desired, etc. |
| Niklas Laxström | mainly i18n and things affecting LangEng team development work | LESS, CirrusSearch, Grid system, MediaWiki Foundation, Configuration database | Grid, l10n file formats (to be written), Isolate custom jQuery libraries, Vertical writing support (maybe) | Continue the many year effort making sure that our i18n support stays on the leading edge (should not be taken for granted). Knowledge of many pieces of MediaWiki. Being and working with 3rd party users. Can write blog posts. |
| Sam Reed
Wikimedia Foundation; United Kingdom |
WMF (Software|Release) Engineer | - | - | Fixing and/or breaking things. |
| Roan Kattouw
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Committee member; Developer | - | Sharing front-end UX libraries (maybe; to write); | Providing front-end architectural perspective |
| Trevor Parscal
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Developer | - | Front-end UX libraries (to write) | Providing front-end architectural perspective |
| Timo Tijhof
Wikimedia Foundation; the Netherlands |
Developer | - | Front-end, infrastructure and continuous integration issues as they arise (e.g. ResourceLoader 2.0) | Providing front-end architectural perspective and especially JavaScript engineering roadmap |
| James Forrester
Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco |
Product Manager; perspective of former third-party sysadmin/re-user on packaging/release management | - | - | Organisational help; providing architectural process advice and perspective of front-end team on infrastructure priority needs |
| Alex Monk
N/A; South East England, UK |
Volunteer developer | I've commented on various RFC-related topics, mostly via IRC: Login security, Configuration database (part of which would be related to DataStore), Reimplement info action, Scoping site CSS | Global notifications, Configuration database, Drop actions in favour of page views and special pages, probably more as they come up. | Participate in the conversation. I didn't really have any extra tasks in mind, but I'm happy to help out in most other ways that might be needed. |
| Max Semenik
WMF, Russia |
Developer | Wrote DataStore, in process of doing Requests for comment/Minifier discussed a few others like Architecture guidelines | DataStore, Minifier, architecture guidelines, might be interested in a broad range of non-frontend RFCs | Contribute to the conversation |
| Santhosh Thottingal
WMF, India |
Developer, Language Engineering | - | l10n file format(to be written), CSS grid | Help with i18n perspective, frond end engineering discussion |
| Owen Davis
Wikia, Inc |
Developer | - | MVC Frameworks, Service Oriented Architectures | Commenting and participating on PHP Architecture |
| Ori Livneh | Performance engineer | Co-wrote Requests for comment/LESS RFP | Architecture guidelines | Estimate performance impact of RFPs; spot potential problems; articulate performance acceptability standards. Watch some experienced hands do the same and take notes. |
| TheDJ; The Netherlands | Developer, en.wp/commons admin, bug triage, WP:VP/T resident | - | Math, media, image information, deprecating inline styles | en.wp and commons community insight and feedback. ( |
| Victor Vasiliev | Volunteer developer | - | IRC RC feed replacement, Configuration database, probably more | May volunteer to prototype |
| Legoktm, San Jose | Developer, enwp/wikidata admin, pywikibot developer | Global notifications (author), Wikidata API, API roadmap, and a few others on IRC. | Global notifications, API stuff | Provide community insight and feedback |
| Isarra Yos, Colorado | Volunteer developer and designer, third-party sysadmin | Not sure (mostly over IRC) | Configuration database, that front-end UX libraries one Trevor/Roan'll write, possibly something about the skin system in general (time permitting) | Ensure that usability concerns and smaller projects' needs are addressed, and whatever is needed |
| Jeff Green, WMF Massachusetts | Ops/Fundraising | offline comments Requests_for_comment/CentralNotice Caching Overhaul - Frontend Proxy | Not sure | Contribute to discussion, learn more about frontend infrastructure |
| Inez | Developer (Wikia) | - | - | Providing back-end and front-end architectural perspective |
| Bartosz "Matma Rex" Dziewoński n/a, Poland |
Volunteer developer, Wikipedian (Polish Wikipedia admin) | Commented on several, none substantially. | – | Anything I can contribute to, mostly in frontend. Likely prototyping and providing non-English Wikipedians' point of view. |
| Mike Schwartz
Wikia, Inc |
- | - | - | Anything I can do to help. Discuss and contribute to long-term architectural direction discussions. |
| Federico Lucignano
Wikia, Inc |
Developer (Platform) | - | REST API | Contribute 3rd party developers' perspective to architectural discussions |
| TOR Wikia, Wikimedia Poland |
Community Engineering Manager at Wikia | Regex-based blacklist, possibly others in the future | not sure yet, but interested in stuff like: continuous integration, auto-updates, i18n | Technical writing and copyediting, plus wearing my Wikimedia and Wikia hats at once for maximum insights and synergy ;) |
| Raimond Spekking
Volunteer developer, Cologne, Germany |
keep an eye i18n/L10n needs | - | Unsure at present | Bringing in the community perspective of dewiki and of 3rd party users |
| Brian Wolff
Developer, Canada |
developer. Especially interested in multimedia related things, bugfixing. | minor comments here and there. Nothing substansive though that i can think of. Participated in the irc meeting | interested in Simplify thumbnail cache (talk). Generally interested in most of the non-frontend rfcs | discussion. Prototyping things (?) |
| Maciej Szumocki
Engineer at Wikia |
developer | - | - | participate in discussions about architecture and APIs |
| Antoine "hashar" Musso
Wikimedia Foundation; France |
Beta cluster/Continuous integration | Standardized thumbnails sizes | From drafts:
From discussion: From Accepted: |
Help folks reach a consensus. Wear the newbie hat to write tutorial/doc/exeamples when relevant. Tests needed! |
| Faidon Liambotis
Wikimedia Foundation; Athens, Greece |
Operations Engineer | internal team discussions, various ad-hoc cross-team architecture discussions, Simplify thumbnail cache (talk) | Simplify thumbnail cache (talk) (co-author), media storage future | Contribute to the conversation |
| Katie Filbert, WMDE; Berlin / DC | Software Engineer | Standardized thumbnails sizes (talk) | TitleValue (talk), DataStore (talk), New sites system (talk), possibly may have something about recent changes since I'm working on that | Bring perspective from Wikidata project, can help take notes. (was at meetings in Amsterdam and Hong Kong) |
| Yuri Astrakhan, Wikimedia Foundation; New York | API, ESI | Architecture guidelines, API roadmap (talk), Wikidata API (talk) | Architecture guidelines, API roadmap (talk) | Finalize(I hope) API discussion, and try to move it towards implementation. Try to get Wikidata API off the ground. |
| Matthew Flaschen, Wikimedia Foundation; Philadelphia | Software Engineer working on both extensions and core. Will give feedback on RFCs I've worked on and new topics that arise. | Password requirements (talk) (created, but have not had an opportunity to follow up recently), LESS (talk) (commented, helped test and review), Support for user-specific page lists in core (talk) (I've also discussed this elsewhere besides the linked wiki page), Deprecating inline styles (talk), Allow styling in templates (talk), Standardized thumbnails sizes (talk), Scoping site CSS (talk), Clean up URLs (talk) | Would particularly like to work on Password requirements (talk) and Support for user-specific page lists in core (talk). Styling (e.g. Allow styling in templates (talk)) is also quite important to mobile, though this needs to be considered carefully. There are also other significant ones, of course. | Discuss anything that comes up, particularly the ones I identified in the right column adjacent. May help implement and review some, such as Support for user-specific page lists in core (talk). |
| Reuben Smith, wikiHow; Palo Alto | Software Engineer working on both extensions and infrastructure. | - | - | Discuss whatever comes up |
| Katie Horn, Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco CA | Software Engineer; Fundraising Tech Lead | - | - | Interested in discussion and getting a better sense of the overall roadmap |
| Marius Hoch (hoo) | Software developer (admin tools and security as a volunteer, also Wikidata etc.) | TitleValue (talk). Also interested in login, security and admin tools related things and whatever comes up. | Contribute to the conversation with my experience with (partly legacy) extensions, Wikidata and with (on wiki) scripts. | |
| Christian Williams, Wikia, Inc | Developer | - | MVC Frameworks, Service Oriented Architectures | Planning and prototyping JavaScript and CSS/Less/Sass |
| Tim Starling | - | - | - | - |
| Mark Bergsma | - | - | - | - |
| Brion Vibber | - | - | - | - |
| Gilles Dubuc | New Tech Lead for Multimedia | - | - | - |
| Matt Walker | - | - | - | - |
| Diederik van Liere | WMF | Cat herder | - | - |
| Dan Andreescu | - | - | - | - |
Organization[edit]
- Coordination: Rob Lanphier. He controls the budget and bootstraps the committee.
- Committee: Mark Bergsma, Tim Starling, Brion Vibber, Arthur Richards, Roan Kattouw and maybe more. They accept participants and drive the schedule.
- Logistics: Rachel Farrand, Quim Gil, Sumana Harihareswara, and Greg Grossmeier.