Architecture committee/2016-09-21

Agenda/Minutes
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Intro section
10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)
 * Action items
 * Moved under individual people in the RFC status update section
 * Review 2016W36 RfC office hour (2016-09-07)
 * E269 - Discussion about WikiDev17
 * We all need to make sure we’re individually talking with Quim
 * Last week's minutes
 * Architecture committee/2016-09-14
 * Is there a use case for secondary data in the DB?  Daniel learned that maybe not.
 * Update attendee list
 * In attendance: Brion, Daniel, Kevin, RobLa, Tim
 * Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
 * RSVP
 * yes:
 * no:
 * maybe/unknown:

RFC status update
20 minutes (starting 21:10 UTC)

Spend roughly 20 minutes ensuring Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date. Checklist of the questions we should answer:
 * Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting?
 * Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
 * For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
 * Picking an RFC for next week:
 * Phab board triage
 * ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
 * T145604 Future of magic links  - Tim will shepherd...
 * T145472 Surveying Cookie Use… Rob will shepherd
 * T40417 MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block...
 * T129842 Code Review Committee...
 * Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
 * ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
 * Brion Vibber.
 * TMH - wrapping up in 3 weeks(?)
 * Daniel Kinzler…
 * MCR
 * Sites refactoring
 * Gabriel Wicke...
 * Rob Lanphier
 * Wikimedia Product & Tech Onsite
 * Dev Summit discussion
 * Wikitext discussion
 * Completed action items
 * ACTION: Moving T589 to “in discussion” (done)
 * ACTION: Rob: populate inbox for meeting in two weeks (done)
 * I don't get to really take credit for this....it just happened  :-)
 * ACTION: Rob: does “last call” belong on wikitech-l (per Timo) (filed as T146307)
 * ACTION: Brion and Rob to discuss next FY16-17Q2 Wikimedia Architecture Team goals (done, and ongoing)
 * ACTION: Rob: Bring up MCR on behalf of Daniel at WMF onsite (done-ish)
 * ACTION: Rob: shepherd Parsing/Notes/Wikitext_2.0 (assigned; page is now Requests for comment/A Spec For Wikitext)
 * ACTION: Rob: announce cancellation of Phab:E271 (done)
 * Roan Kattouw...
 * Tim Starling.
 * Planning Parser Test features for Tidy replacement
 * Timo Tijhof
 * Status check:
 * ACTION: Timo: figure out who should shepherd T133462 (load multi-file .js packages)
 * Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
 * Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
 * Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
 * This week: Dev Summit
 * Dev Summit
 * ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
 * T145604 Future of magic links

Other business/planning
20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)
 * WikiDev17
 * Next week's ArchCom