Architecture committee/2014-10-29

People present: Brion, Mark, Roan, Tim, Daniel

Pending action items

 * brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * brion: catch up with jon robson about the html templating rfc blurb to update it to current changeset & upcoming plans
 * [?] start putting approved RfCs into phabricator for tracking
 * -> start priotizing
 * brion: start an Arch/RfC entry in Scrum of Scrums for cross-team asks
 * Tim to ask S Page about "Need to merge Notifications and Watchlist or lack thereof"
 * You may wish to CC Danny Horn, he's the product manager for Echo/Flow
 * brion: prep some agenda items for Summit in January: make sure we have  some plans for how to deal with RfCs that are basically feature   requests; bump them to functional teams for work once we've determined   there's no arch problem?
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator

RFCs to triage

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Content_API
 * Seems to have morphed into a RESTBase RFC. We should probably discuss RESTBase at some point.
 * Let's grab Gabriel and make sure he's available -- he's pushing for deployments? let's make sure we know what's what.
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Ditch_crappy_API_formats
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Clean_up_URLs
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Storage_service
 * briefly discussed

This week (Oct 29)

 * Core user preferences
 * Redesign user preferences
 * Isolate custom jQuery libraries

Next week (Nov 5)

 * Content API and/or Storage service? (check with Gabriel)
 * let's make sure we understand the diff between the two RfCs -- one is internal, one is external-facing?

Other business

 * Dev summit planning: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015

New action items

 * Tim to read RESTBase code
 * Brion to also read RESTBase code