Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes

This page provides status update for ArchCom-RFCs, with an emphasis on ArchCom team member. As of this writing on 2016-04-29, this update is an experiment discussed weekly ArchCom update discussion on the "ArchCom/Team practices" talk page.

Recent RFC meetings

 * ArchCom Planning meeting 2016W21: 2016-05-25: E194 (E156/8)
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-05-25
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W21: 2016-05-25: E187 (E66/36)
 * RFC triage meeting using ArchCom RFC board
 * Goal: assign priorities for items marked "needs triage" and ensure that high priority items are clearly marked as such

Upcoming RFC meetings

 * ArchCom Planning meeting 2016W22: 2016-06-01: E197 (E156/9)
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-06-01
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W22: 2016-06-01: E198 (E66/37)
 * Security discussion, including:
 * CSP - T135963

Entering Final Comment Period

 * None.

Recently Approved

 * T120164 RFC: Institute "last call" period

RFC inbox

 * ArchCom RFC board:
 * Inbox zero on 2016-06-11.

Shepherd status

 * Brion
 * Daniel
 * Software Quality working group?
 * Working on Multi Content Rev Spec with Brion
 * T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap: (Update?)
 * Gabriel
 * Working with BSitzmann on T132597 (no longer an RFC)
 * Roan
 * T108655 RFC: Standardise JavaScript interfaces: I need to start the second part, but the recent comments have me confused. I'll need to talk to Timo and figure out what the subject of part two should be.
 * RobLa
 * Starting to use Z425 as asynchronous ArchCom-RFC channel, testing Conpherence use for means of piloting ArchCom working groups. We may still have more separate triage discussions, but I'm waiting to get feedback on T135674.
 * Getting up to speed with Wikimedia Security Team issues in an attempt to be useful there.
 * Tim
 * Not many updates with cscott out of office.  T89331 (Replace Tidy in MW parser with HTML 5 parse/reserialize)
 * T114444 RFC: Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext: (Update?)
 * Timo
 * Section anchors - will update
 * CSP - T135963 - Will shepherd
 * Local storage abstraction T121646 working with Fundraising on this to move cookies into local storage; not an RFC yet, but may become one.
 * Local storage abstraction T121646 working with Fundraising on this to move cookies into local storage; not an RFC yet, but may become one.

No activity in the last two weeks

 * T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the RESTBase (Gabriel)
 * T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks in Parsoid (no shepherd)
 * T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor (Timo)
 * T111588 RFC: API-driven web front-end (Timo)
 * T123753 Establish retrospective reports for Security and Performance incidents (RobLa)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T105766 RFC: Dependency graph storage (Gabriel)
 * T124504 Transition WikiDev '16 working areas into working groups (RobLa)
 * T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API (Brion)
 * T91162 RFC: Shadow namespaces (Brion)
 * T128351 RFC: Notifications in core (Brion)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T54807 Identify and remove legacy preferences from MediaWiki core (no shepherd)
 * T88596 Improving extension management (Daniel)

Useful Phab links

 * Query for shepherd assignments
 * Query for all ArchCom RFCs
 * ArchCom-RfCs board