Architecture committee/2016-09-28

Agenda/Minutes
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Intro section
10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)
 * Review last week’s RfC office hour
 * Phab:E273 - MCR T107595 - Multi-Content Revisions
 * Daniel would like an RFC for partitioning
 * Especially Recent Changes table
 * ACTION: Tim to talk to Brion about next steps on MCR (possibly a wider Hangout) (goal: possibly spearheading an RFC)
 * Update attendee list
 * In attendance: Daniel, Kevin, Tim, Timo, RobLa
 * Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
 * RSVP
 * yes: Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, RobLa, Timo
 * no: Roan
 * maybe/unknown: Brion, Tim

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:
 * Upcoming IRC meeting: Phab:E285 (WikiDev17)
 * Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting? RobLa
 * Agenda?
 * Does the list of areas look good enough?
 * Does the committee look representative enough?
 * Try to settle the Phab vs dogfooding discussion?
 * Picking an RFC for next week:
 * Phab board triage
 * ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
 * Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
 * ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
 * Brion Vibber
 * ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit (not done, d'oh!)
 * Daniel Kinzler
 * MCR: use cases need fleshing out
 * Consistency of link tables with RC table (WDQS has a problem, but it’S a general issue)
 * Out of sync because RC table is updated immediately, but others use job queue
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145712
 * Gabriel Wicke...
 * Rob Lanphier
 * ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit (not done, d'oh!)
 * ACTION: document outcome of W38 ArchCom Planning discussion about T129842 Code Review Committee..
 * Ongoing discussions
 * MCR - discussing MVP status
 * Daniel says:
 * Lead image
 * WMDE is blocked on Structured Media Info
 * WikiDev17 - dogfooding conversation
 * Shepherding Requests_for_comment/A_Spec_For_Wikitext
 * Backburner:
 * ACTION: Rob: does “last call” belong on wikitech-l (per Timo) (filed as T146307)
 * ACTION: Rob - fill up inbox for ArchCom
 * Roan Kattouw...
 * Tim Starling…
 * Kunal is interested in having Magic links RFC discussions
 * Timo Tijhof
 * ACTION: Timo: figure out who should shepherd Phab:T133462 (load multi-file .js packages)
 * Roan as shepherd?
 * image/oldimage
 * Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
 * Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
 * Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?

Other business/planning
20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC) generated from Architecture committee/MeetingNoteTemplate
 * WikiDev17
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Processes
 * Next week's ArchCom