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 2016W26: 2016-06-29: E223 (E156/13)
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-06-29
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W26: 2016-06-29: E224 (E66/41)
 * T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
 * Conclusion: Last Call

Upcoming RFC meetings

 * ArchCom Planning meeting 2016W27: 2016-07-06: E225 (E156/14)
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-07-06
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W27: 2016-06-29: E226 (E66/42)
 * T136866: Improve the per-programming-language listings for our tools
 * Let's figure out how newcomers should identify programming languages used on the Wikimedia cluster that align with their interests/skills."What can I work on in language foo" or "I'm really great with language foo, bar, and baz; anything for me to help out with?"
 * Is the mw:Programming_languages page a good start? Is this the page we should easier to find? Are there better landing pages for someone trying to answer the questions above?

Entering Final Comment Period

 * T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
 * Proposal: deprecate running MediaWiki without curl
 * Don't require curl, keeping existing non-curl codepath
 * Add a non-parallel MultiHttpClient fallback
 * Special:Version should let users know if the wiki is running without curl

Recently Approved

 * none

RFC inbox

 * ArchCom RFC board:

Shepherd status

 * Brion
 * T107595 Multi-content revisions is interesting, needed for various things in multimedia land
 * Brion & Daniel doing a work sprint first week of July -- get the patch in better shape, make sure we have some documentation describing how the content slots work and show some examples of working with them
 * T66214 - predictable thumb URLs
 * Break this out into:
 * Define set of core & extensible media file options for Handler extensions (high prio)
 * Predictable thumb URLs (high prio)
 * Improve InstantCommons perf by reducing need to run thumbnail URL lookups (low prio)
 * Iframe-based rich media embedding for InstantCommons (low prio)
 * plan to write up new RfCs for:
 * In-browser SVG rendering (pick up existing bug & mailing list notes) (high prio)
 * iframe+CSP-isolated JS widgets for rich content (low prio)
 * & extend that to InstantCommons via embedding
 * iframe+CSP-isolated JS gadgets for UI plugins (low prio)
 * Build these out from ideas from hackathon project T131436
 * Daniel
 * Software Quality working group - will follow up on earlier proposal.  Will talk to people at Wikimania
 * Working on Multi Content Rev Spec with Brion
 * T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap: checking in with Adam
 * T89733 (approved, with Stas driving implementation)
 * Gabriel
 * Looking into content composition working group, possibly kick-off at Wikimania
 * Discussing Multi Content Rev / RB interaction with Daniel; follow-up at Wikimania
 * 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
 * Working with DPatrick on Wikimedia Security Team issues in an attempt to be useful there.
 * SVG sanitization strategy? See T138783#2414978
 * Forming ArchCom-affiliated working groups
 * Testing Conpherence use for means of piloting ArchCom working groups (see T123606). Trying to use Z425 as asynchronous ArchCom-RFC triage channel, but not seeing much engagement.  A Security/ArchCom quasi-working group in Z411 is largely unused at the moment, since RobLa communicates with Darian and Brian in weekly security triage meetings.
 * Prodding on Programming languages, T136866
 * Things he wants to get around to:
 * T112999 Parsoid/MediaWiki DOM spec
 * Update T137946 per E218.
 * T123753 Establish retrospective reports for Security and Performance incidents
 * Tim
 * T89331 (Replace Tidy in MW parser with HTML 5 parse/reserialize) - should meet to discuss migration rather than implementation plan
 * T114444 RFC: Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext: Scott has implementation work in progress.
 * Timo
 * T135963 RFC: Implement CSP in MediaWiki: Later stages still under discussion. First stage approved and being implemented by Brian Wolff.
 * T111588 RFC: API-driven web front-end: Discussed with Gabriel at Wikimania 2016. RFC to be updated. Considering to first build a MVP for a non-MediaWiki use case (e.g. Wikipedia portal). We'll continue work on MediaWiki for a more stateless skin system. Meanwhile, make progress on the performance characteristics and implementation details of the composition server.
 * 2016W26 (E223): Previously inactive RFCs that show recent activity (may need an update by its shepherd?)
 * T91162 RFC: Shadow namespaces (Brion)
 * ?? reviving the installer ‘beacon’ option (Tim? Brion?)

No activity in the last two weeks

 * T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor (Timo)
 * 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)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T105766 RFC: Dependency graph storage (Gabriel)
 * 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