Architecture committee/2014-12-03

People present: Tim, Mark, Daniel, Roan

Pending action items from last week

 * brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator
 * Maybe 10% done?
 * Gather topics for Arch Summit
 * Brion will put work on Graph RFC in Phabricator

RFCs to triage
More old RFCs:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Refactor_on_File-FileRepo-MediaHandler
 * Probably can be accepted. Maybe we can prod the multimedia team for an implementation?
 * Mark Holmquist said in Scrum of Scrums this morning that the multimedia team is shifting to UploadWizard work soon, for what that's worth
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages
 * I think this was filed prior to the author's rewrite of the action system. Not sure if he believes in it anymore.
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Itemise_protection
 * File under admin tools and send to Chris Steipp?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Regex-based_blacklist
 * Is this in the committee's scope?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Release_notes_automation
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Distribution_and_deployment
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation

This week

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation

Next week

 * Subject to wikitech-l discussion

Other business
Dev summit planning: Robla says please get it done ASAP so that people can prepare for the sessions. Some updates done
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015-Topics
 * group to go to for advice about arch stuff, with a reasonable expectation to get feedback
 * RFC wrangling, posting notes, updating RFC pages etc.
 * Rotate responsibilities instead of expecting Tim to do it?
 * Tim to write checklist re things that should be done (some are being done, some aren't)
 * Introduce stalled status
 * More phabricator integration

New action items

 * Daniel to send an email to wikitech-l regarding old RFCs to discuss next week.