Architecture Summit 2014/Straw poll

The purpose of this straw poll is to gauge interest in the different topics that we could discuss during the upcoming Architecture Summit 2014. We asked you to help us form clusters of related RFCs and we have now grouped those clusters in five themes:

1. Backend internals
2. APIs/Interfaces/Protocols
3. Frontend
4. Software management
5. Functionality

We would like to ask all MediaWiki developers to vote in this straw poll. The results of the straw poll and the ideas of the organizing committee will form the final program.

Guidelines

• You can vote, by adding your name, to as many RFC clusters as you want (approval voting) but don't vote for anything that you wouldn't agree to take an action item on at the Architecture Summit.
• We want to close this straw poll on January 8, 2014.
• Help us in driving the turnout -- if you are missing names of people you think that should vote please prod them on our behalf as well. We really want the poll to reflect the interest of the entire MediaWiki community.
• The clustering of the RFCs is taken from RFC clusters -- if you see a discrepancy between those two pages please either let Diederik know or be bold :)

Theme 1

Theme 1 - Backend internals	I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit	Total votes cast
Configuration	Chad, MarkTraceur, MaxSem, Legoktm, Steven W., Parent5446, Mglaser, MarkAHershberger, Nikerabbit, VasilievVV, Hoo man, TheDJ, Catrope, Ori, Krinkle, This, that and the other	16
Debugging	MaxSem, manybubbles, Parent5446, Subbu, Superm401, Gilles, Inez, bd808, Duesentrieb, Ori, Krinkle	11
Storage services	MaxSem, Legoktm, Grunny, GWicke; related to SQL abstraction and service-oriented architecture, Subbu, Inez, Maciej Szumocki, Duesentrieb, DAndreescu, arthur, Ori	11
Linking	Aude (think this somewhat overlaps with refactoring), Hoo man, Duesentrieb, This, that and the other	4
Media backend	MarkTraceur, manybubbles, Inez, bd808, Duesentrieb, Ori	6
Parsing architecture	GWicke (despite the title, this is actually HTML storage and a no-parsing architecture), Subbu, James F., Catrope, Maciej Szumocki, Duesentrieb, Krinkle	7
Parser changes		0
Performance	manybubbles, Steven W., Grunny, James F., Owen Davis, Nikerabbit, Gilles, VasilievVV, Inez, bd808, Ori, Krinkle	12
Refactoring	MaxSem, Aude, Parent5446, Subbu (UserMailer refactoring could be considered related to SOA RFC), Hoo man, Duesentrieb, arthur, This, that and the other	8
SQL abstraction	Chad, manybubbles, Parent5446, Grunny, Mglaser, Owen Davis, MarkAHershberger (especially interested in alternate providers like Doctrine), Inez, Catrope, Maciej Szumocki, Krinkle	11

Theme 2

Theme 2 – APIs/Interfaces/Protocols	I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit	Total votes cast
CentralNotice		0
HTML templating	Tomasz, Kaldari, MaxSem, jdlrobson, MarkTraceur, manybubbles, Steven W., Parent5446, Grunny, GWicke, Ebernhardson, Mglaser, Superm401, MarkAHershberger, Owen Davis, Nikerabbit, CSteipp, Inez, spage, TheDJ, Mlitn, bd808, Matma Rex, SG, arthur, Krinkle	26
Metadata	MarkTraceur, Raymond, Superm401, James F., TheDJ, Chad, Maciej Szumocki, Duesentrieb, howief, DAndreescu, arthur	11
Mobile	Tomasz, jdlrobson, MaxSem, Inez, TheDJ, arthur	6
Parsed output access	MaxSem, MarkTraceur, manybubbles, Steven W., GWicke, Subbu, James F., Legoktm, Duesentrieb, Krinkle	10
Service-oriented architecture	Grunny, GWicke, Subbu, James F., Owen Davis, Inez, bd808, Catrope, Maciej Szumocki, Duesentrieb, howief, arthur, Ori, Krinkle	14
Thumbnail handling	MaxSem, bd808, jdlrobson, arthur	4
URLs	Chad, Steven W., Raymond, James F., Krinkle, This, that and the other	6
Wikidata	Legoktm, Raymond, James F., Inez, Maciej Szumocki, Duesentrieb, arthur, Ori	8

Theme 3

Theme 3 – Frontend	I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit	Total votes cast
Multimedia frontend	MarkTraceur, Tomasz, James F., Gilles, Ori	5
UI/UX: styling	Tomasz, Steven W., Superm401, James F., Nikerabbit, Santhosh, TheDJ, Yair rand, Matma Rex, jdlrobson, Catrope, DAndreescu, Ori, Krinkle	14

Theme 4

Theme 4 - Software management	I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit	Total votes cast
Backend code modularity frameworks	Parent5446, Mglaser,Owen Davis, Inez, bd808, Duesentrieb	6
Installation	Parent5446, Mglaser, Superm401, MarkAHershberger, Nikerabbit, bd808, Krinkle	7
MediaWiki management	Steven W., Mglaser, MarkAHershberger, TheDJ, Matma Rex	5
Release process	Mglaser, MarkAHershberger, CSteipp, Matma Rex, Krinkle, This, that and the other	6
Software for/from third parties	Mglaser, MarkAHershberger,Owen Davis, Nikerabbit, Santhosh, bd808, Matma Rex, This, that and the other	8

Theme 5

Theme 5 – Functionality	I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit	Total votes cast
Crosswiki	Legoktm, Aude, VasilievVV, CSteipp, Hoo man, Duesentrieb, Ori, Krinkle	8
General MediaWiki functionality	MZMcBride, James F., Siebrand, TheDJ, Catrope, Duesentrieb, Ori, Nikerabbit (l10n json), Krinkle	9
Page protection and deletion	Mglaser, MarkAHershberger (Corporate users find this bit lacking), CSteipp, This, that and the other	4
Security	Steven W., Parent5446, Grunny, Superm401, MarkAHershberger (very interested in the AuthStack bit), CSteipp, Hoo man, bd808, howief, arthur	10
UI/UX: usability and discoverability	MarkTraceur, Steven W., MZMcBride, James F., Gilles, Inez, TheDJ, Matma Rex, howief, Ori	10
User customization/filterability	Superm401, Matma Rex	2
Wiki tasks management	Krinkle	1