Architecture committee/2016-02-10

Attendees:

 * ArchCom: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Roan, Tim, Timo
 * Support: Megan (notetaker), RobLa (facilitator)
 * Observing: Volker

Summary

 * Action items
 * Last week
 * ACTION (Rob): document the practice of making the IRC meeting a kickoff of last call, rather than a conclusion
 * ACTION (Rob): Communicate the assignment of RFCs to shepherd as “proposed process”
 * T125865: Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds
 * ACTION (Rob): Make shepherding assignments be a regular part of our meetings
 * ACTION (Rob): Check with Brion and Gabriel about what they want to shepherd
 * ACTION (All): send suggestion for your first choice to wikitech-l
 * Older
 * ACTION: RobLa - harvest action items out of the minutes of E135
 * ACTION: RobLa - double check that RFC is marked as RFC
 * ACTION: RobLa - reschedule ArchCom meeting (?)
 * Discuss scheduling of last calls, irc meetings, and decisions, and communicating decisions -> Other business?
 * Should we have working groups?
 * Should we have an API working group?
 * Should we have a multimedia working group?
 * Last week+this week’s RfC office hour
 * Last week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E66/20
 * T124752: [RFC] Expiring watch list entries
 * This week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E66/21
 * T114662: RFC: Per-language URLs for multilingual wiki pages
 * RfC triage + meeting scheduling
 * MediaWiki-RfCs board “Inbox” column
 * T125865: Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds
 * T12331: Introduce article creation log
 * ACTION (Rob) Create needs shepherd column (and move this there)
 * T66214: Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API
 * Do we need Gilles weigh in? Should this be in a multimedia working group?
 * ACTION - assign to Brion as shepherd
 * Queue for future RfC office hours:
 * Next week: T124365 REST API versioning
 * Following week: Assigning shepherds
 * Shepherd assignments (T125865)
 * This week:
 * @GWicke - T124365 REST API versioning
 * @brion: T118517 [ usage], maybe  T120414 [editor plugin registry]?
 * @Catrope - still considering
 * @Krinkle: T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor
 * Timo will bring it up in FE Stds
 * @daniel: T88596 Improving extension management
 * legoktm hasn’t been available
 * @tstarling: T468 RfC: CentralNotice backend improvements
 * ACTION (Tim): will look into a better top priority
 * Breakdown by person: T125865#2016261
 * Other business 0:30 (10 minutes)
 * Try setting up our first working group by or at the meeting
 * ACTION (Brion): write up Multimedia working group proposal
 * ACTION (Gabriel): write up API working group proposal
 * Do or don’t: mass migration to 5.5’s array syntax (and similar changes), e.g.  https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269745/
 * ACTION (Daniel): will send email about this
 * Meeting summary for IRC meeting?
 * ACTION (Rob): update this URL:  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-02-10
 * Next week’s ArchCom agenda
 * RobLa may not be available
 * Gabriel to lead meeting

Links

 * Copied from 2016-02-10 ArchitectureCommittee


 * Previous meeting: Architecture committee/2016-02-03
 * Minutes of all ArchCom meetings: Architecture committee/Minutes