Architecture committee/2016-03-09

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Agenda

 * Action items
 * last week’s action items
 * RobLa - Public summary of this meeting (done; see Architecture committee/2016-03-02)
 * Gabriel and RobLa - Discuss how to communicate priorities from ArchCom + real-time note conversations
 * RobLa: further define officewiki:Engineering/New_core_team (done; see Wikimedia Engineering/2016-17 Goals/New MediaWiki-focused team)
 * Last week+this week’s RfC office hour
 * 2016-03-02 meeting: E66/24 (E146)
 * Triaged nearly all RFCs in the "needs shepherd" column, either assigning shepherds or marking RFCs as blocked/stalled
 * 2016-03-09 meeting: E66/25 (E147)
 * T128351 - RfC: Notifications in core
 * @brion is shepherding, and would like to confirm rough consensus for moving some of the Echo code into core
 * T66214 - Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API
 * @GWicke hopes we can reach consensus on the format of a thumb API, which lets clients easily select thumb size and quality. Define the image identifier as an opaque string. Examples: /thumb/{id}/{size}{/quality_format}, value /thumb/Wiki.png/640.
 * RfC triage + meeting scheduling
 * MediaWiki-RfCs board “Inbox” column
 * T128602: Create and deploy an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store.
 * Queue for future RfC office hours:
 * 2016-03-16 RFC meeting scheduling (E66/26)
 * Spend a small portion on RFC triage as we did in E146?
 * What else?
 * 2016-03-23 RFC meeting scheduling (E66/27)
 * Other business (10 minutes)
 * How can we increase the throughput of ArchCom?
 * Should we have Rust-style working groups?
 * Shepherd assignments
 * See latest comments on T125865
 * Next week’s ArchCom agenda (10 minutes)
 * Next week’s ArchCom agenda (10 minutes)

Detailed notes
private notes/meeting prep

''Note from RobLa: I'm transitioning to a regime where more of the agenda/notes prep can happen on mediawiki.org. Per Good meetings#Note taking, it can be really difficult for a thorough note taker to redact something that wasn't intended for the public minutes, and the transcript is probably less useful for everyone than the summary. The summary takes a little post-meeting time to prepare.''