Architecture committee/2014-11-26

People present: Brion, Daniel, Mark, Tim, 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
  • Maybe 10% done?
• Gather topics for Arch Summit
• Mark will ask Toby about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_counts
• Mark will write email to Erik Z
• Mark will ask Robla about agenda syncup
• Brion will check in with Damon next week about misc stuff and try to syncup on agenda stuff as well
  • -> he says talk to Rachel about everything

RFCs to triage

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Custom_inter-namespace_tabs
  • Was accepted in prehistoric times
  • Related and more recent: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces
  • Associated namespaces is the proper solution -- so don't do inter-namespace tabs [Brion]
  • There's also namespace manager
  • Needs new owner to merge RFCs
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts
  • High on the MW core team priority list at the moment
  • Schedule
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Partial_page_caching
• Matt Walker was interested but left WMF
• Gabriel, Timo interested but don't have much time
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation
  • Schedule

RFC scheduling

This week

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_HTTPS_policy
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extensions_continuous_integration

Next week

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation

Other business

Rachel's email re dev summit: Ideally you can provide the following for 6 - 12 small(er) group topics: 1) Discussion topic 2) Time needed for topic 3) List of people mandatory to be present during the discussion Rob's mail:

   1.  "SOA, what does it mean, and how to we get there
   2.  "Visual Editor" 
   3. "Modernize MediaWiki Front end (in service of mobile)"
   4.  Future of the Architecture Committee.

• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015

New action items

Brion will put work on Graph RFC in Phabricator