Architecture Summit 2014/RFC clusters

=Background= The idea with this grouping is that we want it to be granular enough to consider batches of RFCs on this type of 90 minute agenda:
 * Lightning talk 1 - 5 min
 * Short Q&A 1 (clarifications only) 5 min
 * Lightning talk 2 - 5 min
 * Short Q&A 2 (clarifications only) 5 min
 * Lightning talk 3 - 5 min
 * Short Q&A 3 (clarifications only) 5 min
 * General discussion (60 minutes)

=Working Groups= This is a very first stab and will change, this is not definitive.

Backend templating
Proposals that involve adding an abstraction layer for server-side HTML generation
 * MVC Framework
 * OutputPage Refactor
 * HTML templating library

Parsing architecture
Proposals that involve big changes to how we think about parsing and wikitext
 * Parsoid/Roadmap
 * Scoped language converter
 * Text extraction

Parser changes
Smaller changes to parsing
 * New hook: ParserBeforePreprocess

Configuration
Proposals that involve moving away from global variables as the standard way of configuring core and extensions
 * Configuration database
 * Configuration database 2
 * Json Config pages in wiki
 * Extension manager

Backend code modularity frameworks
Proposals that involve organizing our backend code to be more modular
 * MediaWiki libraries
 * Third-party components
 * Extension release management
 * Distribution and deployment

Title object

 * TitleValue

UserMailer object

 * UserMailer Refactor

SOA

 * Content API
 * Services and narrow interfaces
 * API roadmap
 * PHP web service interface

Wikidata

 * Wikidata API

Security

 * Password strength
 * Login security
 * AuthStack
 * Password requirements

Performance

 * Partial page caching
 * Performance standards for new features
 * Simplify thumbnail cache
 * CentralNotice Caching Overhaul - Frontend Proxy

SQL abstraction

 * SQL Framework
 * Abstract table definitions

Key-value stores

 * Storage service
 * DataStore

Page protection

 * Itemise protection
 * Page protection as a component

URLs

 * URL shortener service for Wikimedia
 * URL shortener
 * Clean up URLs
 * Drop actions in favour of page views and special pages

Installation

 * Opt-in site registration during installation
 * Release notes automation
 * Distribution and deployment

UI/UX

 * Grid system
 * Vertical writing support
 * Scoping site CSS
 * Allow styling in templates
 * Standardized thumbnails sizes
 * Core user preferences

Mobile

 * Zero Architecture

3rd party

 * Third-party components
 * Extension release management
 * Isolate custom jQuery libraries
 * MediaWiki libraries

Misc

 * Overthrow Bugzilla
 * MediaWiki Foundation
 * Bugzilla taxonomy
 * Disable raw HTML on wikimediafoundation.org
 * Tickets
 * MediaWiki.org Main Page tweaks

Multimedia

 * More general frontend uploading tools
 * Image information
 * Refactor on File-FileRepo-MediaHandler

Mediawiki Functionality
(big clunky group that needs to be further segregated)
 * Structured logging
 * Removing hit counters from MediaWiki core
 * Update our code to use RDFa 1.1 instead of RDFa 1.0
 * Retained account data self-discovery
 * Nonlinear versioning
 * Clickable section anchors
 * Dismissable notices
 * Structured data push notification support for recent changes
 * Page deletion
 * Localisation format
 * Book management
 * Support for user-specific page lists in core
 * New sites system
 * Page metadata
 * Workflow
 * Regex-based blacklist
 * Global scripts