Architecture committee/2017-03-01

An invite-only video discussion, where decisions are often finalized, generally Wednesday 13:00 USA West coast local time as of this writing. This meeting is often used for grooming the backlog for the TechCom-RFC board. (private minutes)

Present: Brion, Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Kevin (notes), Tim, Timo, Victoria

Minutes

Approved RFCs

• phab:T122942 (Support language variants in the REST API): Will use Accept-Language headers.

Active RFCs

• phab:T66214: Define an official thumb API: Description updated to reflect the latest discussion.
• phab:T155813: Decide on storage and delivery method for TemplateStyles CSS

Further news:

• New hot topic: Progressive Web Apps. Watch for a public ArchCom session on this topic soon. Ties in with discussion regarding JS frameworks in the Frontend Standardization Group.
• Tim is thinking about automating wiki creation, see phab:T158730
• Release Engineering wants to get rid of LocalizationUpdate, see phab:T158360
• Next week’s IRC meeting: Anothr round of  Brion’s “fix the revision table”, see mw:User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table_round_2
• The new MediaWiki team is up and running, with Tim Starling in the lead. There is a job opening for Product Manager for MediaWiki, see https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/613548?gh_src=1u385n1