Architecture committee/2014-11-05

People present: Brion, Tim, Mark, Daniel, Roan

Pending action items

• brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
• Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
• Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator
• Tim to read RESTBase code
• Brion to also read RESTBase code

RFCs to triage

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extensions_continuous_integration
  • New
  • Follow up with Antoine
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Better_PHP_profiling
  • Bryan is planning to remove all wfProfileIn/wfProfileOut calls from the core, this should probably be mentioned on the RFC and discussed
  • Ask Bryan to update RFC, schedule also
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Ditch_crappy_API_formats
  • Schedule
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Clean_up_URLs
  • Schedule week after next

RFC scheduling

This week (Nov 5)

• Content API and Storage service

Next week (Nov 12)

• Better PHP profiling
• Ditch crappy API formats

Other business

• ZeroPortal Lua rapid development framework
  • Tim has concerns about their direction
  • Mark repeated his concerns about the need for MW integration that he previously expressed, but hasn't seen latest design documents or discussions. Would like to see them.
  • Brion thinks they should be left to do their own thing, since it doesn't impact on others
• Arch summit
  • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015
  • No facilitator
  • Breakout sessions plus whatever we plan
  • Mark was asked at Engineering meeting to get ~6 topics from arch com
  • Public call for submissions
  • Reach out to particular people, ask for presentations

New action items

• Gather topics for Arch Summit
• Mark to ask Rachel for registration data