Architecture committee/2014-10-15

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

Pending action items

 * brion: prep announcements
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340
 * update this! 2014/10/15
 * Tim: ask RFC authors to specify their timezone or preferred meeting slot
 * prep ideas for Dev Summit for discussion next week
 * (note: not all committee members will be at the dev summit)
 * finish formalizing the roles!
 * plan for formal expansion/maintenance policy -- approval, target size, need for membership levels/associates/delegates?
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T593
 * All, please join https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/architecture/
 * for next quarter make sure we've got good plans on prioritization
 * someone put this into phab!
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T594
 * brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri

RFCs to triage

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Branching
 * Updated in the last week, moved from "Nonlinear versioning"
 * Author set status to "Studying use cases, want feedback"
 * We're not sure if we want this
 * Potentially complicated UI
 * Needs really solid use waiting to be implemented if we're going to consider it
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/image_and_oldimage_tables
 * Archcom requested public meeting, but Tim deferred
 * get some feedback going on this and reschedule it in a couple weeks?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redesign_user_preferences
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Need_to_merge_Notifications_and_Watchlist_or_lack_thereof

Today (Oct 15)

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Removing_bad_database_abstractions
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates

Next week (Oct 23)

 * Scoped language converter? cscott is on vacation this week but back on Monday
 * HTML templating library (brion/roan/FSG -> finalize rfc)

Other business

 * some agreement with idea of dropping IE 6 SSL support due to security issues (?) -> weigh in on the ops thread as needed

New action items

 * Roan to tell FSG meeting that they should update template RFC with their recommendation so ArchCom can actually decide on it
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library#Current_plans <- quick note, needs expansion. Brion will help with this.
 * Tim to ask Rachel about dev summit schedule, number of rooms, time available for arch discussion, etc. Ask Rachel to attend next week's committee meeting about this.
 * Tim to ask Rachel and/or Robla about invitation lists
 * Brion to draft expansion email today
 * brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * Consider: paging sucks. Pure client-side possible?