Wikimedia Technical Committee

The Wikimedia Architecture Committee (ArchCom) strives to ensure we build and deploy increasingly excellent software on the Wikimedia production cluster in a consensus-oriented manner. MediaWiki is at the center of this, but ArchCom's responsibility doesn't end with MediaWiki. Follow and get involved in the Architecture of MediaWiki, the MediaWiki-RfCs Requests For Comment through which we advance its architecture, and the related activities of the Architecture committee.

Members

 * Brion Vibber
 * Daniel Kinzler
 * Gabriel Wicke
 * Roan Kattouw
 * Tim Starling
 * Timo Tijhof

Non-voting support

 * Rob Lanphier - process/meeting facilitator+timekeeper (+filling unfilled roles)
 * (unfilled; formerly S Page) - documentation/meeting note-taker+reporter

Roles

 * Review and approve Requests for comment (see the RFC process): maintain the  MediaWiki-RfCs Phabricator workboard, host public RFC meetings to assess and achieve consensus.
 * We strive to have multiple people looking at an RFC before approval, but an individual committee member may approve an RFC if they believe it will be uncontroversial.
 * Discuss strategy / develop recommendations.
 * Help to identify high-priority technical projects and make recommendations to WMF, WMDE, etc. (T96903).
 * Help connect RFC requestors with additional developers (we can't assign resources but we can help connect folks)

See also our aspirational list of /Weekly tasks/.

Meetings
The Architecture committee has two major meetings weekly
 * An invite-only video discussion, where decisions are often finalized, generally Wednesday 1pm PT as of this writing (minutes)


 * Public architecture meetings: mostly discussions of RFCs on IRC. These are generally Wednesday 2pm PT.