Architecture committee/2017-03-22

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

Recent activity:
 * etcd under consideration for configuration management, see .
 * Adam Shoreland (User:addshore) is working on an extension for transferring files from Wikipedia to Commons, with the full history intact. See 
 * Input wanted on overriding namespaces defined in extension.json, see  and the “Letting configurations override namespace registration of extensions” thread on wikitech-l.
 * Some activity regarding error message i18n on the RFC on JSON validation: .

Past session on mobileFrontend requirements:
 * Detailed note at .
 * We had a presentation and Q/A session on hangout, with notes taken on IRC, and some questions taken from IRC. We failed to get the youtube stream working, but we did not max out hangout.
 * Using a video conference for a high level overview session seems moderately successful, with room for improvement on the details. ArchCom will consider this mode for some future public meetings. We may try a different video conference service next time. Has anyone tried Spreed ? We could even host it, see .

Upcoming RFC discussion, March 29:
 * “Canonical data URIs and URLs for machine readable page content” .
 * The discussion will take place in the IRC channel #mediawiki-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).