Architecture committee/2014-10-22

People present: Tim, Brion, Mark, Daniel, Roan

Pending action items

 * Roan to tell FSG meeting that they should update template RFC with their recommendation so ArchCom can actually decide on it
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library#Current_plans <- quick note, needs expansion. Brion will help with this.
 * Roan told them this, but they didn't end up doing anything (internal miscommunication)
 * at least there's action on the changeset
 * yeah; at this point the RfC basically is that changeset, but it needs a longer blurb about what's actually being done in that change and why
 * Tim to ask Rachel about dev summit schedule, number of rooms, time available for arch discussion, etc. Ask Rachel to attend next week's  committee meeting about this.
 * Tim to ask Rachel and/or Robla about invitation lists
 * Rachel says they are meeting this week or next week or both to make initial plans, and will get back to us when they have something for us to do
 * Brion to draft expansion email today
 * http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/archnote draft
 * Looks good to me
 * sent
 * brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
 * not done yet
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * Consider: paging sucks. Pure client-side possible?
 * not done yet

RFCs to triage

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redesign_user_preferences
 * clean up UI
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Core_user_preferences
 * cut down available prefs to those that are most used
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Need_to_merge_Notifications_and_Watchlist_or_lack_thereof
 * needs some prelim feedback. push to echo team for that? Contacts in that team: S Page (scrum master), Danny Horn (product manager)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Inline_diffs
 * Daniel says: Seems like a feature request
 * Maybe Chad can be product manager?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Isolate_custom_jQuery_libraries
 * for meeting next week

This week (Oct 22)

 * Scoped language converter
 * HTML templating library

Next week (Oct 29)

 * Core user preferences
 * Redesign user preferences
 * make a call for folks to work on it:
 * needs someone from core to work on core bloat
 * needs someone from ui/frontend to help with cleanup and ux design
 * Isolate custom jQuery libraries
 * needs Timo :)

Other business
** Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator ** Quim to make RFC project
 * On finding resources for RFC implementation: Tim suggests having phab tasks for RFC-related project proposals
 * Phabricator-based management of RFCs:

New action items

 * brion: catch up with jon robson about the html templating rfc blurb to update it to current changeset & upcoming plans
 * [?] start putting approved RfCs into phabricator for tracking
 * -> start priotizing
 * brion: start an Arch/RfC entry in Scrum of Scrums for cross-team asks
 * Tim to ask S Page about "Need to merge Notifications and Watchlist or lack thereof"
 * You may wish to CC Danny Horn, he's the product manager for Echo/Flow
 * brion: prep some agenda items for Summit in January: make sure we have some plans for how to deal with RfCs that are basically feature requests; bump them to functional teams for work once we've determined there's no arch problem?
 * Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
 * Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator