Architecture committee/2015-08-12

People present: Brion, Robla, S

Minutes from last week: Architecture committee/2015-08-05

Pending action items

 * Brion to chat with Terry Gilbey
 * Gabriel to meet with Trevor and others about content, then establish front-end ongoing WG to drive T99088
 * done, "Content WG: Templating, Page Components & editing" meeting

RFCs to triage
See tag/mediawiki-rfcs/

This week
?

Next week

 * T107595 Daniel's "RFC: Multi-Content Revisions"
 * we think, spage will follow up

Other business
Architecture committee future: how to tackle big pieces.
 * Code of conduct, Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft
 * 'Evolving our content platform" (T99088 piece of T105845 ) is a test case for this, having actual meetings about doing the work,timeboxed to two months.
 * risk of loudest voices winning the meeting
 * Robla: e-mail to wikitech-l is the record, but we haven't been using it very well
 * Robla: How to make architectural progress with the different factions, roughly: old-school, nouveau technologists, earnest non-profit
 * Brion: cross-team exploratory group can be fruitful; Gabriel: yes, this content platform meeting
 * Robla: from IETF experience, a weekly teleconference to keep the momentum going, but also document publicly, and make decisions on mailing list
 * We'll bear all this in mind in tomorrow's "Content WG: Templating, Page Components & editing" meeting. (Robla can't attend tomorrow or the next meeting)
 * Discuss on mailing list or in Phabricator comments?
 * "Keeping up" via e-mail is a familiar habit, people can be unaware of discussion in Phabricator comments

None of this applies when engineers submit major change in gerrit patch and get another's +2.
 * Is that a problem
 * Robla: lighten the RFC process

New action items

 * spage email Tim to confirm RFC office hour next week and point out it's gone from WMF Engineering calendar