Architecture committee/2014-11-26

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

Pending action items

 * brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator
 * Maybe 10% done?
 * Gather topics for Arch Summit
 * Mark will ask Toby about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_counts
 * Mark will write email to Erik Z
 * Mark will ask Robla about agenda syncup
 * Brion will check in with Damon next week about misc stuff and try to syncup on agenda stuff as well
 * -> he says talk to Rachel about everything

RFCs to triage

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Custom_inter-namespace_tabs
 * Was accepted in prehistoric times
 * Related and more recent: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces
 * Associated namespaces is the proper solution -- so don't do inter-namespace tabs [Brion]
 * There's also namespace manager
 * Needs new owner to merge RFCs
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts
 * High on the MW core team priority list at the moment
 * Schedule
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Partial_page_caching
 * Matt Walker was interested but left WMF
 * Gabriel, Timo interested but don't have much time
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation
 * Schedule

This week

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_HTTPS_policy
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extensions_continuous_integration

Next week

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation

Other business
Rachel's email re dev summit: Ideally you can provide the following for 6 - 12 small(er) group topics: 1) Discussion topic 2) Time needed for topic 3) List of people mandatory to be present during the discussion Rob's mail:   1.  "SOA, what does it mean, and how to we get there    2.  "Visual Editor"     3. "Modernize MediaWiki Front end (in service of mobile)"    4.  Future of the Architecture Committee.
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015

New action items
Brion will put work on Graph RFC in Phabricator