Architecture committee/2017-03-15

Present: Brion, Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Tim, Timo, Victoria, Kevin (notes), and someone in SF that I couldn’t identify
 * Notable activity:
 * Disabling LocalisationUpdate on WMF wikis is on track; looks like it’ll be rewritten rather than removed. T158360
 * CURL to become an optional dependency of MediaWiki, managed by composer
 * Template styling RFC has reached agreement. T155813
 * Thumbnail API RFC has seen no acticity last week.T66214
 * Brion is working with Jaime on a tool to check for DB schema inconsistencies between server.
 * Public meeting on Mobile Frontend Requirements
 * Overview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jlBl_qAIrGPF7zqOmK77Db8y4InO1j3qX1qqipzJNmc/edit
 * Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-03-15-21.10.html
 * Outcome: Collected feedback, will reiterate
 * Using hangout was an experiment to see whether this is feasible and useful. We do not currently plan to make Hangout the default meeting mode. Observations:
 * We failed to get the youtube stream to work.
 * We did not come close to the 25 person limit for hangout.
 * Using IRC for logging is useful. Relaying questions and notes between IRC and Hangout works, but takes effort.
 * Please give feedback about using Hangout for this kind of meeting!
 * No public meeting planned for next week (March 22)