Architecture committee/2016-04-06

Meeting summary

 * Action items (last week):
 * RobLa: get update from Legoktm about T16950: Global Preferences
 * Last week+this week’s RfC office hour
 * Last week’s planning meeting: 2016-03-30 ArchitectureCommittee
 * Last week's IRC meeting: E152
 * T119908: [RfC]: Migrate code review / management to Phabricator from Gerrit:
 * Phase 1 (T130418): hopefully ends 2016-06-30
 * Phase 1.1: hopefully ends 2016-09-30
 * Phase 2 (T130420): hopefully ends by 2016-12-31
 * Phase 3 (T130421): hopefully ends by 2017-03-31
 * Considerations that need to be addressed for clear support from ArchCom:
 * Viable alternatives to Gerrit should be listed, with rationale for not pursuing evaluations of those (e.g. Github)
 * Continuous integration plan needs further discussion
 * T123753: Establish retrospective reports for #security and #performance incidents
 * T129435: RFC: drop support for running without mbstring - last call announcement
 * The last call seems to have been sufficient. The group discussed installation, which seems to be sufficiently straightforward, so the group agreed it's ok to make this required.
 * Phab:E158 - Open office hour
 * Explain the mbstring approval
 * Weekly shepherding checkin
 * See latest comments on T125865
 * RfC triage + meeting scheduling - see RFC status update below
 * Queue for future RfC office hours:
 * April 13 (E66/30)
 * April 20 (E66/31)
 * Other business 0:30 (10 minutes)
 * Next week’s ArchCom agenda 0:40 (10 minutes)

RFC status update
Gabriel sent out the RFC summary from last week to wikitech-l: ArchCom RFC update

In 2016-04-06 ArchCom Planning Meeting (E157), Gabriel and Tim both identified T114445 (balanced templates) as important, with Gabriel highlighting T130567 and  T114072. Timo (on behalf of Roan) brought up T108655 (Standardise on how to access/register JavaScript interfaces), and he also listedT130663 (RFC: Reference API requirements and options) as work that needs to continue.

At E159, we plan to disucss Hygienic transclusions and balanced templates (2016-04-13, #wikimedia-office)

More details:


 * Query for shepherd assignments
 * Query for all ArchCom RFCs
 * ArchCom-RfCs board “Inbox” column