Architecture committee/2017-05-24

Present: Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Roan, Victoria


 * Lots of talk about JavaScript frameworks at the hackathon, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/16oL-_166IvPNkVV0qQ3HJGtK9CynY5okygf0GdPRw60/edit
 * Stas is investigating ways to do deep category search using BlazeGraph, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165982
 * Next steps towards MCR: At the hackathon, we decided on a rough roadmap for factoring information out of the revision table, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671#3279414
 * New RFC: Tim is proposing a cleanup of the directory structure for core code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010
 * New RFC: Daniel is proposing to drop the requirement for all namespaces to have an associated talk namespace: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
 * New RFC: Add “reading list” feature to MediaWiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990
 * RFC to be discussed on IRC on Wednesday, May 31 (pending confirmation from Tim): Making MediaWIki’s PostgreSQL schema more compatible with the MySQL schema: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898