Architecture committee/2015-05-06

People present: Brion, Daniel, Mark, Gabriel, Roan, Tim, S, Kevin Smith Apologies: Trevor

RFC work board: tag/mediawiki-rfcs/ ArchCom board (process stuff): tag/archcom/ Minutes from last week: Architecture committee/2015-04-29

Pending action items
From last week: Earlier: S will publish sanitized backlog of minutes. still TODO, he cleaned #Architecture tag, Daniel added some ideas
 * Go through approved RFCs and make sure they are on someone's board
 * Expand committee priorities (T96903) etherpad http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-Priorities, abstract out topic areas

RFCs to triage
(see board) Nothing in Inbox. ArchCom workboard has some RFCs on it (Daniel will remove tag), but none are new. Updated T95654 "RFC: Business Layer Architecture on budget" with meetbot conclusion, assigned back to Yurik

This week

 * Re-evaluate varnish-level request-restart behavior on 5xx T97206
 * Request timeouts and retries T97204

Next week

 * Graphical configuration interface T388

Other business
Can we resolve:
 * T340 "Start the process of expanding the arch committee"? A: Yes
 * T590 "RfC: Graph"? -> Brion
 * T488 "Define a process to involve the community triaging and promoting architecture RfCs"? A: OK

Hackathon discussion on future of cte:
 * Gabriel: should we be clear in advance that we are waiting for Rob to be back before we commit to long term plans?
 * Brion: focus on top priorities, content; solicit feedback on structure, but don't make it the main focus
 * Daniel: we could have a discussion about legitimisation and community involvement in the c'tee
 * Could talk about non-WMF users and their needs

GSoC topics
 * Students will be at Lyon
 * Improving documentation: better mid-level documentation, like $IP/docs directory, synchronised with wiki

Committee (T89907):
 * defer *decisions* until Rob, but brainstorm and present ideas / options
 * figure out big questions / goals, think about structure to make that happen
 * Tim: survey about value of architecture committee?

New action items

 * Brion: conclude T590 "RfC: Graph"
 * Gabriel and Brion to continue work on http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-Priorities
 * Gabriel to create task for revision-related storage issues (related to T96384, RB, others)
 * Continue discussion on governance / architectural leadership + vision via mail