Architecture committee/2017-02-01

Present: Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Kevin (notes), Tim, Timo, Victoria (CTO)

Minutes

 * New MW core team is taking shape. Relationship to ArchCom to be worked out.
 * IRC office hour on Feb 1st didn’t happen. The office hour about DB schema changes may happen on Feb 8th, pending confirmation from Brion.

RFC Activity:
 * T589: "image and oldimage table refactoring": Approved after last call.
 * T66214: "Define an official thumb API": Converging on a solution. Proceeding to concrete planning & last call period soon. Please review and comment now.
 * T122942: "Support language variants in the REST API": Marko and Corey driving the discussion forward. Both hope to find a solution that is consistent across APIs, but this requires coordination.
 * T155813: "Decide on storage and delivery method for TemplateStyles CSS": The Reading team is working towards device-specific styling for templates. They are looking for feedback on whether to store these styles on a separate page, and how to deliver these styles to the user. After brief discussion, ArchCom tentatively favors inline delivery; similarity to template-data would be good for consistency.
 * Daniel is working on T152425: "make use of varnish xkey" and T154674: "HookRunner"; these are soon to become RFCs.