Architecture committee/2016-09-07

= Agenda/Minutes = This section will also serve as the collaboratively edited minutes of the meeting, and will as the official minutes of the meeting. Attendees: Fill in the important details in this section, but try to keep this concise and NPOV (easy way: use questions). Put any prep information in this section if appropriate

Intro section
10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)
 * Action items
 * Last week
 * ACTION: Daniel: send email to wikitech-l asking for WMF help on MCR (done)
 * ACTION: RobLa will move Phab:T143974 to “managed outside” column, ping RelEng (not done, but appears moot)
 * ACTION: Daniel - move conv with Jaime onto a talk page somewhere (done)
 * ACTION Tim: check with Kunal about Shadow Namespaces
 * ACTION: Rob: Follow up on last week’s glitch (done, more or less)
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour2016W35: 2016-08-31 (Wednesday)
 * ArchCom Planning meeting: Phab:E265
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-08-31
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour: Phab:E266
 * Agenda: T589 RFC: image and oldimage tables


 * Update attendee list
 * In attendance: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, RobLa, Tim, Timo
 * 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?
 * more ad hoc than normal
 * 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:
 * Should we have a meeting next week? (Product and Tech onsite happening Sep 14-15: officewiki:Technology/Planning/Fall2016)
 * Phab board triage
 * ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
 * ACTION: Moving T589 to “in discussion”
 * ACTION: Rob: populate inbox for meeting in two weeks
 * Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
 * ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
 * Brion Vibber.
 * Still finishing TMH
 * Plan to comment on MCR
 * In SF, first week of Oct
 * Daniel Kinzler…
 * MCR - comments and feedback
 * Next couple of weeks: may start work on Sites interface (T113034)
 * Gabriel Wicke
 * Page composition using service workers and server-side JS fall-back: Prototype ServiceWorker proxy available in labs
 * Considering productizing this next quarter.
 * Working with Aaron on finalizing requirements for session storage in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SessionService/Storage
 * Rob Lanphier.
 * 2016W36: WikiDev17 discussion, plus Z411 discussion
 * Started work on User:RobLa-WMF/Wikitech-l for possible future move to Wikitech-l (maybe an RFC?)
 * ACTION: Rob: does “last call” belong on wikitech-l (per Timo)
 * 2016W35: Working with Subbu on Wikitext spec (T142803)
 * 2016W34: Language variants (see User:RobLa-WMF/Variants and T143628)
 * Planning next quarter
 * Brion asks: please don’t forget tech-debt issues
 * ACTION: Brion and Rob to discuss
 * ACTION: Rob: Architecture team: Bring up MCR on behalf of Daniel
 * Roan Kattouw...
 * Tim Starling…
 * Subbu is still interested in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Notes/Wikitext_2.0 but maybe not an RFC topic until it has had more design work?
 * ACTION: Rob: shepherd ^^
 * Gabriel suggests a split of DOM and syntax
 * Timo Tijhof…
 * Working on items from last week’s notes
 * API driven front end
 * ACTION: Timo: figure out who should shepherd T133462
 * Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
 * Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
 * (T133462
 * Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
 * Skipping next week
 * ACTION: Rob: announce cancellation of next week
 * W37: IRC meeting cancelled, Planning still happening
 * W38 meeting: MCR
 * W38 meeting: MCR

Other business/planning
20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC) generated from Architecture committee/MeetingNoteTemplate
 * Security discussion (described at Z411)
 * WikiDev17
 * Next week's ArchCom