Architecture committee/2016-10-26

Agenda/Minutes
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Intro section
10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)
 * Action items
 * Last week
 * RobLa: finish posting last week's notes
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour
 * Phab:E323 -  Surveying Cookie Use
 * Conversation to be ctd
 * Update attendee list
 * In attendance: Daniel, RobLa, Tim, Timo
 * Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
 * RSVP
 * yes: Daniel, Gabriel, RobLa, Timo
 * no: Roan
 * maybe/unknown: Brion, Tim

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:
 * Upcoming IRC meeting
 * Phab event: E325
 * Phab task: T138783
 * Chair: RobLa
 * For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"? Not really
 * Picking an RFC for next week:
 * Phab board triage
 * ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
 * Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
 * ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
 * Brion Vibber...
 * Daniel Kinzler.
 * Getting back up to speed MCR after vacation. Use cases need fleshing out
 * Sites RFC: Slowly moving forward, some code on gerrit
 * Link tables - not sure how to move forward on thsi https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149239
 * IDs for Titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412#2712471
 * Gabriel Wicke...
 * Rob Lanphier.
 * SVG
 * WikiDev17
 * WMF organizational stuff (stay tuned)
 * Roan Kattouw...
 * Tim Starling…
 * T16950 was mentioned at the editing offsite, with Runa and Kunal
 * Someone asked me how ReviewStream (T149060) should be architected, I said with an RFC meeting. No sign of progress on that yet though
 * Parsing team offsite
 * Discussed porting Parsoid to PHP
 * Discussed incremental updates to Parsoid DOM when a template is updated
 * Timo Tijhof…
 * T589 image/oldimage - need to reply to Jaime
 * API driven front end - stalled (working with Gabriel; just mutually busy)
 * 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?
 * W44: (cancelled) - ACTION: RobLa to send out announcement
 * W45: candidates
 * ReviewStream (T149060)
 * Something from Daniel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412#2712471

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