Architecture committee/2016-08-24

= 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: Architecture committee/2016-08-17
 * ACTION: Rob: make sure we spend a few minutes each week discussing WikiDev17
 * ACTION: Rob to talk to Subbu about assignee on T142803 (done; see my section)
 * ACTION: Rob: add language variant item to next weeks planning agenda (done (sorta) see my section, also welcome David!)
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour
 * E261 - Content model storage (T105652)
 * Gergo is considering working on this
 * Brion will help when he can
 * ACTION: Daniel: send email to wikitech-l asking for WMF help on MCR
 * Update attendee list
 * In attendance: RobLa, Brion, Daniel, Kevin, Tim, Timo, David Chan
 * Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
 * RSVP
 * yes: Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, RobLa, Timo
 * no:
 * maybe/unknown: Brion, Roan, 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:
 * Plan upcoming IRC meeting (E263)
 * Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting?  Rob
 * For upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?   Possibly
 * Picking an RFC for next week:
 * How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
 * Where should anything in the inbox go?
 * What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
 * Brion Vibber.
 * Fixing video stuff for mobile
 * Next up: Wiki doc model - pulling out rfcs in the queue. MCR
 * Daniel Kinzler.
 * Following up on MCR
 * Wikidata stable interfaces https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy
 * Gabriel Wicke...
 * Rob Lanphier
 * 2016W33: Working with Subbu on Wikitext spec (T142803)
 * 2016W34: Language variants (see User:RobLa-WMF/Variants and T143628)
 * Roan Kattouw...
 * Tim Starling.
 * CScott’s balancer vs Depurate
 * Parser tests with balancer
 * Goal: all PHP
 * Timo Tijhof
 * image and oldimage: draft soon, want more input T589 RFC: image and oldimage tables
 * ACTION: RobLa: prod T589 (rolling migrations? next steps?)
 * 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?

Other business/planning
20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716 - balancing
 * Script transliteration
 * Vocab substitution
 * ACTION: RobLa: work with CScott on breaking up T43716
 * ACTION: Brion: comment on T43716
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716#2580532


 * WikiDev17
 * Next week's ArchCom