Architecture committee/2016-06-22

Agenda timeline

 * Intro
 * Agenda bashing and action item check 21:00 (5 minutes)
 * Review last week's RfC office hour 21:05 (5 minutes)
 * RFC status update
 * RfC inbox triage 21:10 (10 minutes)
 * Shepherd assignments 21:20 (5 minutes)
 * Queue for future RfC office hours 21:25 (5 minutes)
 * Wrapup
 * Other business 21:30 (10 minutes)
 * Next week’s ArchCom agenda 21:40 (10 minutes)

Intro section

 * Action items
 * Last week
 * ACTION: Brion and Daniel to set aside some time in July for Multi-Content Revisions (T107595)
 * Focus will be on the patch; walkthrough is hopeful as well
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W24: 2016-06-15: Phab:E213 (E66/39)
 * T120452: Allow tabular datasets on Commons (or some similar central repository) (CSV, TSV, JSON, XML)
 * See also: comments in T124569 and T134426
 * Yuri filed T137929 during E213 (as requested in discussion)

RFC status update
"main: Architecture committee/Status"Questions discussed:
 * Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting? (E218) Brion
 * T137946 - RFC (WIP): develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki
 * Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
 * Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
 * Options : ACTION: Rob - announce these choices
 * curl support
 * language/runtime RFC
 * For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
 * How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
 * Where should anything in the inbox go?
 * T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
 * What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
 * Brion Vibber
 * MCR, additional RFCs (multimedia/svg/instantcommons updates)
 * Tim Starling
 * Conversation about replacing Tidy
 * ACTION (Rob): ask question on ops list about the place
 * ACTION (Rob [optional, lower priority]): provide update on Phab ticket that conversation is happening
 * ACTION (Rob): follow up with Faidon about filing a “limited menu of language options” RFC
 * Reasons
 * Developer familiarity
 * Ops Familiarity
 * Rob Lanphier
 * (absent: Gabriel, Roan, Timo, Daniel Kinzler)
 * Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
 * Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?