Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes

This page provides status update for ArchCom-RFCs, with an emphasis on ArchCom team member. As of this writing on 2016-04-29, this update is an experiment discussed weekly ArchCom update discussion on the "ArchCom/Team practices" talk page.

Recent RFC office hours

 * 2016-05-04: Phab:E169
 * T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core
 * Declined. A lot of the discussion was about these three questions:
 * what problem was this RFC trying to solve?
 * if BagOStuff is an obstacle, then which is true?
 * a) need a better caching abstraction than BagOStuff? or
 * b) does BagOStuff just need incremental improvement
 * c) should BagOStuff be deprecated, and not replaced with anything?
 * if we decide to rethink our caching model, do we need tagged caching?

Upcoming RFC office hours

 * 2016-05-11: E66/34(E171)
 * T113034: RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap


 * The ArchCom-RfCs board has a "Ready for RFC meeting" column which should contain an ordered queue of RFCs planned for IRC office hour

Entering Final Comment Period

 * T120164 - this is a last call for a process RFC about last calls. See RobLa's email to wikitech-l on 2016-05-04 about this.

RFC inbox

 * ArchCom RFC board:
 * empty on 2016-05-04

Shepherd status

 * Brion
 * Daniel
 * Software Quality working group?
 * Working on Multi Content Rev Spec with Brion
 * Gabriel
 * T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks as post-processor (Gabriel): Solutions for highlighting links to non-existing pages in Parsoid HTML. Plan in place / agreed between Parsing and Services. Implementation in change propagation service ready, preparing for deploy possibly next week.
 * T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the REST API (Gabriel): Waiting for progress on more general question of language selection granularity / strategy & T114662.
 * Roan
 * I need to start the second part of T108655, but the recent comments have me confused. I'll need to talk to Timo and figure out what the subject of part two should be.
 * RobLa
 * Created mw:RFCstatus
 * still need to schedule an RFC triage meeting outside of ArchCom-RFC time
 * Tim
 * No update
 * Timo
 * No update
 * No update

No activity in the last two weeks

 * T123753 Establish retrospective reports for Security and Performance incidents (RobLa)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T124504 Transition WikiDev '16 working areas into working groups (RobLa)
 * T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API (Brion)
 * T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap (Daniel)
 * T128351 RFC: Notifications in core (Brion)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T54807: Identify and remove legacy preferences from MediaWiki core (no shepherd)
 * T88596 Improving extension management (Daniel)
 * T114444 RFC: Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext (Tim)

Useful Phab links

 * Query for shepherd assignments
 * Query for all ArchCom RFCs
 * ArchCom-RfCs board