Architecture committee/2017-01-25

Present: Brion, Gabriel, Daniel (chair), Timo

Minutes
At the IRC meeting, we discussed MZMcBride’s proposal for Accessing page properties from wiki pages. We explored use cases, identified potential issues and formulated requirements. A summary can be found at T154738#2972889.
 * Gabriel is considering use cases for storage of HTML for old revision: mw:Wikimedia_Services/Revision_storage_for_HTML_and_structured_data:_Use_cases
 * Continuing meta-discussion about ArchCom, touching on the following topics:
 * Encouraging more RFC discussion on Phabricator
 * Using IRC meetings as a broader office hour
 * ArchCom’s involvement with strategy making and resource planning

Announcements
Active RFCs: Last Call: [RFC] Image and oldimage tables
 * T66214: Define an official thumb API. Effort to define a client-controlled API for retrieving thumbnails with various options.
 * T128351: Notifications in core.
 * T124752: Expiring watchlist entries.
 * T145604: Future of magic links.

Please review the updated RFC page [1] and send any final comments here on Wikitech-l or Phabricator [2] by 2017-02-01.

[1] mw:Requests_for_comment/image_and_oldimage_tables

[2] T589

Next week on IRC:

Discuss the planned schema changes for DB realignment & MCR (pending confirmation from Brion). See:
 * mw:Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Scaling_the_Wikimedia_database_schema
 * mw:User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table
 * mw:Multi-Content_Revisions/Content_Meta-Data#Database_Schema
 * mw:Requests_for_comment/Content_model_storage