Architecture committee/2016-07-06

Agenda timeline

 * Intro
 * Agenda bashing and action item check 21:00 (5 minutes)
 * Review last week's RfC office hour 21:05 (5 minutes)
 * RFC status update
 * RfC inbox triage 21:10 (10 minutes)
 * Shepherd assignments 21:20 (5 minutes)
 * Queue for future RfC office hours 21:25 (5 minutes)
 * Wrapup
 * Other business 21:30 (10 minutes)
 * Next week’s ArchCom agenda 21:40 (10 minutes)

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Intro section
10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)
 * Action items
 * Last week
 * ACTION (Rob [optional, lower priority]): provide update on Phab:T89331 that conversation is happening (done; more-or-less)
 * ACTION (Rob): talk to Product and/or Usability about T128352 (partially done)
 * I had a brief impromptu conv with Abbey and Danny (noted in Phab)
 * ACTION (Rob): better board triage (done, for some value of "better")  :-)
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W26: 2016-06-29: E224 (E66/41)
 * T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
 * Conclusion: Last Call
 * ACTION: Rob - remove the word “deprecate” from the status page
 * ACTION Krinkle - approve the last call

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? Tim will chair, Rob will shepherd
 * Conclude last week's "final comment period":
 * T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
 * Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
 * For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
 * Picking an RFC for next week:
 * How does ArchCom-RfCs board look? Where should anything in the inbox go?
 * T139300 Create formal process for CREDITS files
 * Move to “Needs shepherd”, normal priority
 * T139012 Use index on rc_this_oldid
 * High priority, Daniel will shepherd, under discussion
 * T16950 Support global preferences
 * T120385 - language team’s work
 * ACTION Tim - comment on this task
 * ACTION: Rob: move to Backlog
 * T589 RfC: image and oldimage tables
 * Next week’s discussion
 * Move it to “ready for discussion”
 * ACTION: Rob Announce this as our topic for next week
 * What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
 * Daniel Kinzler
 * MCR
 * Wants to discuss file history on MCR next week
 * Parser target language
 * Rob Lanphier
 * My status section is more-or-less correct
 * Tim Starling
 * No relevant updates
 * Timo Tijhof
 * Mostly up-to-date, except for T589
 * Not present: Brion Vibber, Gabriel Wicke, Roan Kattouw
 * Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting? T589

Other business/planning
20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)
 * In E224, Brion and RobLa agreed we should use this meeting to discuss a plan for having an installer beacon
 * Next week's ArchCom