Wikimedia Technical Committee/Minutes

This page provides status update for ArchCom-RFCs, with an emphasis on ArchCom team member. As of this writing on 2016-04-29, this update is an experiment discussed weekly ArchCom update discussion on the "ArchCom/Team practices" talk page.

Recent RFC meetings

 * ArchCom Planning meeting: 2016-05-11: E170 (E156/6)
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-05-11
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour: 2016-05-11: E171 (E66/34)
 * T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap

Upcoming RFC meetings

 * ArchCom Planning meeting: 2016-05-18: E183 (E156/7)
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-05-18
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour: 2016-05-18: E184 (E66/35)
 * T102476: RFC: Requirements for change propagation


 * The ArchCom-RfCs board has a "Ready for RFC meeting" column which should contain an ordered queue of RFCs planned for IRC office hour

Entering Final Comment Period

 * (none)

Recently Approved

 * T120164 RFC: Institute "last call" period

RFC inbox

 * ArchCom RFC board:
 * Inbox zero on 2016-06-11.

Shepherd status

 * Brion
 * Daniel
 * Software Quality working group?
 * Working on Multi Content Rev Spec with Brion
 * T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap: (Update?)
 * Gabriel
 * T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks as post-processor: Solutions for highlighting links to non-existing pages in Parsoid HTML. Plan in place / agreed between Parsing and Services. Implementation in change propagation service ready, preparing for deploy possibly next week.
 * T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the REST API: Waiting for progress on more general question of language selection granularity / strategy & T114662.
 * Roan
 * T108655 RFC: Standardise JavaScript interfaces: I need to start the second part, but the recent comments have me confused. I'll need to talk to Timo and figure out what the subject of part two should be.
 * RobLa
 * Created RFCstatus page.
 * Still need to schedule an RFC triage meeting outside of ArchCom-RFC time
 * Tim
 * T114444 RFC: Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext: (Update?)
 * Timo
 * No update
 * No update

No activity in the last two weeks

 * T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor (Timo)
 * T111588 RFC: API-driven web front-end (Timo)
 * T123753 Establish retrospective reports for Security and Performance incidents (RobLa)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T105766 RFC: Dependency graph storage (Gabriel)
 * T124504 Transition WikiDev '16 working areas into working groups (RobLa)
 * T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API (Brion)
 * T91162 RFC: Shadow namespaces (Brion)
 * T128351 RFC: Notifications in core (Brion)
 * T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel)
 * T54807 Identify and remove legacy preferences from MediaWiki core (no shepherd)
 * T88596 Improving extension management (Daniel)

Useful Phab links

 * Query for shepherd assignments
 * Query for all ArchCom RFCs
 * ArchCom-RfCs board