Architecture committee/2016-08-31

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
 * Blocked on finishing design doc https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions
 * ACTION: RobLa: prod T589 (rolling migrations? next steps?) (done)
 * ACTION: RobLa: work with CScott on breaking up T43716 (ongoing)
 * ACTION: Brion: comment on T43716 (done)
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour
 * E263 ArchCom RFC Meeting W34: T69223: Schema change for page content language
 * Last call over
 * Update attendee list
 * In attendance: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, 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? T589
 * Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?  Try to get to last call on T589
 * For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
 * Picking an RFC for next week:
 * Phab board triage
 * ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
 * (empty)
 * Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143974
 * Cause: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/305211/  together with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132707
 * Fix https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/307133/ and folow-up fix https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/307721/
 * ACTION: RobLa will move to “managed outside” column, ping RelEng
 * Other RFCs that had activity this past week:
 * T353: RFC: Vertical writing support
 * mxn} wrote: "Here’s the pull request Yair_rand submitted to CSSJanus, currently blocked on this pull request."
 * T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces
 * @Yurik, @Legoktm, and @Rical discussed
 * T102476: RFC: Requirements for change propagation
 * I removed myself as the assignee, but remaining as shepherd, and I moved this to the "on track" column.
 * T107595: [RFC Multi-Content Revisions]
 * Daniel is working on T141877
 * T119908: [RfC: Migrate code review / management from Gerrit to Phabricator]
 * Removed myself as assignee, staying on as shepherd
 * T124752: [RFC Expiring watch list entries]
 * Asked about in Scrum-of-Scrums today
 * T139810: RFC: Overhaul the CheckUser extension
 * Prose of RFC now available on mw.org. Many supporting tasks (e.g. T144099) filed
 * T142803: [RFC STUB: Creating a spec for legacy wikitext / future wiki content processing model]
 * @ssastry posted a first draft at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Notes/Wikitext_2.0
 * Phab activity from recent/upcoming IRC meetings
 * E261: ArchCom RFC Meeting W33: content model storage (2016-08-17, #wikimedia-office)
 * T142980: RFC: Create a content meta-data table
 * E263: ArchCom RFC Meeting W34: T69223: Schema change for page content language (2016-08-24, #wikimedia-office)
 * T69223: Schema change for page content language
 * E266: ArchCom RFC Meeting W35: image and oldimage tables (2016-08-31, #wikimedia-office)
 * T589: RfC: image and oldimage tables
 * ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
 * Brion Vibber…
 * Finishing up TMH mobile
 * Next up: Wikitext spec
 * Daniel Kinzler…
 * Consolidating revision design stuff.  Discussing schema with Jaime
 * ACTION: Daniel - move conv with Jaime onto a talk page somewhere
 * Gabriel Wicke…
 * Page composition using service workers and server-side JS fall-back: aiming to set up demo this week
 * Protect sensitive user-related information with a UserData / auth / session service: Converging on requirements.
 * Rob Lanphier..
 * Working with Subbu
 * Process stuff with Kevin (see my recent changes on mw.org)
 * Roan Kattouw…
 * Unburying  :-)  (management stuff)
 * JS API 2nd RFC
 * x-wiki watchlist (will work on this first)
 * Tim Starling…
 * Parsing team offsite in October
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/parsing_team_offsite
 * rewrite of parser tests
 * Timo Tijhof…
 * img/oldimg
 * prototype for api driven front-end
 * 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?
 * T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces
 * @Yurik, @Legoktm, and @Rical discussed
 * ACTION Tim: check with Kunal
 * Backup plan: triage

Other business/planning
20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)
 * WikiDev17
 * ACTION: Rob:
 * Next week's ArchCom
 * ACTION: Rob: Follow up on last week’s glitch