Architecture committee/2016-06-22

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

Agenda timeline

• Intro
  • Agenda bashing and action item check 21:00 (5 minutes)
  • Review last week's RfC office hour 21:05 (5 minutes)
• RFC status update
  • RfC inbox triage 21:10 (10 minutes)
  • Shepherd assignments 21:20 (5 minutes)
  • Queue for future RfC office hours 21:25 (5 minutes)
• Wrapup
  • Other business 21:30 (10 minutes)
  • Next week’s ArchCom agenda 21:40 (10 minutes)

Agenda details/Meeting summary

Intro section

• Action items
  • Last week
    • ACTION: Brion and Daniel to set aside some time in July for Multi-Content Revisions (T107595)
      • Focus will be on the patch; walkthrough is hopeful as well
• Review last week’s RfC office hour
  • ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W24: 2016-06-15: Phab:E213 (E66/39)
    • T120452: Allow tabular datasets on Commons (or some similar central repository) (CSV, TSV, JSON, XML)
      • See also: comments in T124569 and T134426
      • Yuri filed T137929 during E213 (as requested in discussion)

RFC status update

main: Architecture committee/Status

Questions discussed:

• Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting? (E218) Brion
  • T137946 - RFC (WIP): develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki
• Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
• Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
  • Options : ACTION: Rob - announce these choices
    • curl support
    • language/runtime RFC
• For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
• How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
  • Where should anything in the inbox go?
  • T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
• What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
  • Brion Vibber
    • MCR, additional RFCs (multimedia/svg/instantcommons updates)
  • Tim Starling  
    • Conversation about replacing Tidy
    • ACTION (Rob): ask question on ops list about the place
    • ACTION (Rob [optional, lower priority]): provide update on Phab ticket that conversation is happening
    • ACTION (Rob): follow up with Faidon about filing a “limited menu of language options” RFC
      • Reasons
        • Developer familiarity
        • Ops Familiarity
  • Rob Lanphier
  • (absent: Gabriel, Roan, Timo, Daniel Kinzler)
• Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
• Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?