Architecture committee/2014-12-03
People present: Tim, Mark, Daniel, Roan
Pending action items from last week[edit]
- 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
- Brion will put work on Graph RFC in Phabricator
RFCs to triage[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Refactor_on_File-FileRepo-MediaHandler
- Probably can be accepted. Maybe we can prod the multimedia team for an implementation?
- Mark Holmquist said in Scrum of Scrums this morning that the multimedia team is shifting to UploadWizard work soon, for what that's worth
- Probably can be accepted. Maybe we can prod the multimedia team for an implementation?
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages
- I think this was filed prior to the author's rewrite of the action system. Not sure if he believes in it anymore.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Itemise_protection
- File under admin tools and send to Chris Steipp?
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Regex-based_blacklist
- Is this in the committee's scope?
More old RFCs:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Release_notes_automation
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Distribution_and_deployment
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_Foundation
RFC scheduling[edit]
This week[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_scripts
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation
Next week[edit]
- Subject to wikitech-l discussion
Other business[edit]
Dev summit planning: Robla says please get it done ASAP so that people can prepare for the sessions.
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ArchitectureCommittee-DevSummit2015-Topics
Some updates done
- group to go to for advice about arch stuff, with a reasonable expectation to get feedback
- RFC wrangling, posting notes, updating RFC pages etc.
- Rotate responsibilities instead of expecting Tim to do it?
- Tim to write checklist re things that should be done (some are being done, some aren't)
- Introduce stalled status
- More phabricator integration
New action items[edit]
- Daniel to send an email to wikitech-l regarding old RFCs to discuss next week.