Architecture committee/2014-10-15

People present: Brion, Tim, Mark, Roan, Daniel, Quim

Pending action items

• brion: prep announcements
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340
  • update this! 2014/10/15
• Tim: ask RFC authors to specify their timezone or preferred meeting slot
• prep ideas for Dev Summit for discussion next week
  • (note: not all committee members will be at the dev summit)
  • finish formalizing the roles!
  • plan for formal expansion/maintenance policy -- approval, target size, need for membership levels/associates/delegates?
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T593
• All, please join https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/architecture/
• for next quarter make sure we've got good plans on prioritization
  • someone put this into phab!
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T594
• brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri

RFCs to triage

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Branching
  • Updated in the last week, moved from "Nonlinear versioning"
  • Author set status to "Studying use cases, want feedback"
  • We're not sure if we want this
  • Potentially complicated UI
  • Needs really solid use waiting to be implemented if we're going to consider it
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/image_and_oldimage_tables
  • Archcom requested public meeting, but Tim deferred
  • get some feedback going on this and reschedule it in a couple weeks?
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redesign_user_preferences
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Need_to_merge_Notifications_and_Watchlist_or_lack_thereof

RFC scheduling

Today (Oct 15)

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Removing_bad_database_abstractions
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates

Next week (Oct 23)

• Scoped language converter? cscott is on vacation this week but back on Monday
• HTML templating library (brion/roan/FSG -> finalize rfc)

Other business

• some agreement with idea of dropping IE 6 SSL support due to security issues (?) -> weigh in on the ops thread as needed

New action items

• Roan to tell FSG meeting that they should update template RFC with their recommendation so ArchCom can actually decide on it
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library#Current_plans <- quick note, needs expansion. Brion will help with this.
• Tim to ask Rachel about dev summit schedule, number of rooms, time available for arch discussion, etc. Ask Rachel to attend next week's committee meeting about this.
• Tim to ask Rachel and/or Robla about invitation lists
• Brion to draft expansion email today
• brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
• Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
  • Consider: paging sucks. Pure client-side possible?