Architecture committee/2016-08-24

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/Minutes

This section will also serve as the collaboratively edited minutes of the meeting, and will as the official minutes of the meeting. Attendees: Fill in the important details in this section, but try to keep this concise and NPOV (easy way: use questions).  Put any prep information in this section if appropriate

Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

• Action items
  • Last week: Architecture committee/2016-08-17
    • ACTION: Rob: make sure we spend a few minutes each week discussing WikiDev17
    • ACTION: Rob to talk to Subbu about assignee on T142803 (done; see my section)
    • ACTION: Rob: add language variant item to next weeks planning agenda (done (sorta) see my section, also welcome David!)
• Review last week’s RfC office hour
  • E261 - Content model storage (T105652)
    • Gergo is considering working on this
    • Brion will help when he can
    • ACTION: Daniel: send email to wikitech-l asking for WMF help on MCR
• Update attendee list
  • In attendance: RobLa, Brion, Daniel, Kevin, Tim, Timo, David Chan
  • Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
  • RSVP
    • yes: Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, RobLa, Timo
    • no:
    • maybe/unknown: Brion, Roan, Tim

RFC status update

20 minutes (starting 21:10 UTC)

Spend roughly 20 minutes ensuring Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date. Checklist of the questions we should answer:

• Plan upcoming IRC meeting (E263)
  • Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting?  Rob
  • For upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?   Possibly
• Picking an RFC for next week:
  • How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
    • Where should anything in the inbox go?
  • What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
    • Brion Vibber.
      • Fixing video stuff for mobile
      • Next up: Wiki doc model - pulling out rfcs in the queue. MCR
    • Daniel Kinzler.
      • Following up on MCR
      • Wikidata stable interfaces https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy
    • Gabriel Wicke...
    • Rob Lanphier
      • 2016W33: Working with Subbu on Wikitext spec (T142803)
      • 2016W34: Language variants (see User:RobLa-WMF/Variants and T143628)
    • Roan Kattouw...
    • Tim Starling.
      • CScott’s balancer vs Depurate
      • Parser tests with balancer
      • Goal: all PHP
    • Timo Tijhof
      • image and oldimage: draft soon, want more input T589 RFC: image and oldimage tables
      • ACTION: RobLa: prod T589 (rolling migrations? next steps?)
  • Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
  • Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
  • Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716 - balancing
  • Script transliteration
  • Vocab substitution
  • ACTION: RobLa: work with CScott on breaking up T43716
  • ACTION: Brion: comment on T43716
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716#2580532

• WikiDev17
• Next week's ArchCom