Architecture Summit 2014

Architecture meetings

January 23–24, 2014
SPUR
654 Mission Street
San Francisco, California, United States of America

RFC clusters

Timeline

• Call for participants:
  • Application deadline: Tuesday, October 22, 17:00 UTC (10 a.m. PDT)
  • Participant announcement: By Thursday, October 31, 2013
• Initial agenda: By Friday, November 22
• RFC finalization: Friday, December 20, 23:00 UTC (4 p.m. PDT). RFCs not out of draft by this deadline may be cut from the main agenda (we may set aside some unconference time)
• Summit: Thursday–Friday, January 23–24, 2014

Schedule

Our focus for this summit is on creating the time and space for high quality interactions between developers and to create opportunities to make significant progress on a number of RFC clusters as prioritized by the straw poll. Please use the Day 1 etherpad document to make notes about the day itself, last minute changes and coordination issues.

Day 1

Start	End	Description		Location	Parallel tracks
09:00	10:00	Light breakfast & coffee		The Spur
10:00	10:20	Introduction		The Spur
10:20	10:50	Introducing non-WMF attendants by Sumana		The Spur
10:50	11:10	Agenda bashing & Breakout Planning by RobLa		The Spur
11:10	11:20	Break		The Spur
11:20	12:30	Plenary Session – HTML templating (Moderator: RobLa)		The Spur	1
12:30	13:30	Lunch		The Spur
13:30	15:00	Breakout sessions		The Spur	2
		Track 1: UI styling Moderator: James F; on 2nd floor	Track 2: TitleValue and SQL abstraction Moderator: Robla; on 4th floor
15:00	15:30	Break		The Spur
15:30	15:45	Lightning Talks from Breakout Sessions
15:45	17:00	Plenary Session Configuration – (Moderator: RobLa)		The Spur	1
17:00	19:00	Drinks / Snacks / Mingle		The Spur
19:00	21:00	Dinner sign-up -- small self-organized groups will go into town to have dinner

Day 2

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/summit_day2

Start	End	Description		Location	Parallel tracks
9:00	10:00	Light breakfast & coffee		The Spur
10:00	10:05	Welcome back		The Spur
10:05	11:00	Architectural value, guidelines, and process (Moderator: RobLa)		The Spur	1
11:00	11:10	Agenda bashing & Breakout Planning by Robla		The Spur
11:10	11:20	Break		The Spur
11:20	12:30	Plenary Session – Service-oriented architecture (Moderator: RobLa)		The Spur	1
12:30	13:30	Lunch		The Spur
13:30	15:00	Breakout sessions		The Spur	2
		Track 1: Storage services and API versioning Moderator: RobLa; location 2nd floor	Track 2: Frontend performance Moderator: James F.; location 4th floor
15:00	15:30	Break		The Spur
15:30	15:45	Lightning Talks from Breakout Sessions		The Spur
15:45	16:45	Plenary Session - RFC Roulette Follow up Architecture Panel discussion		The Spur	1
16:45	17:00	Wrapup / retrospective		The Spur
17:00	19:00	Drinks / Snacks / Mingle		WMF
19:00	21:00	Dinner sign-up -- small self-organized groups will go into town to have dinner

Breakout sessions

Participants in the breakout sessions should prepare to report back to the larger group the results of the breakout session with a lightning talk, and carve out a little time to plan the lightning talk. The questions that the talk should answer are:

• What did you try to achieve?
• What did you decide?
• What are the next steps?

Suggested items for the unconference slots

These proposed clusters were on the proposed schedule at one point, were discussed by the planning committee, and are very good candidates to return to the schedule. Please come to the summit prepared to speak about these RFC clusters as well:

Agenda bashing Day 1

• Configuration by Legoktm First day afternoon plenary
• TitleValue: Modularity and Testability by Daniel Kinzler scheduled as uncoference slot on Day 1
• SQL abstraction by Owen Davis scheduled as uncoference slot on Day 1
• ContentHandler by Daniel Kinzler. NOTE: Should not be in parallel with Config, TitleValue or Metadata sessions. This happened around 6pm

Agenda bashing Day 2

Potential topics for unconference slots, feel free to add new topics as well

• Frontend Performance by Ori and Timo;

Topics that were not scheduled

• Debugging by Bryan Davis & Ori?
• Metadata by Daniel Kinzler
• Password policy by Steven Walling

Other candidates for discussion can be found at our earlier straw poll.

Venue

We are located at the SPUR. We have space on the 1st floor, 2nd floor, and 4th floor, used as follows:

• 1st floor is a general workspace for impromptu discussions or quieter space to get away from the crowds
• 2nd floor is where we are holding the plenary sessions
• 4th floor is where breakout sessions are. There is also a patio where you can get fresh air (NOTE: no smoking on the patio)

Here's a map of the venue and a link to the website with other information.

Notes and retrospectives

This is the place to link various notes taken during the Summit discussions and summaries written afterwards.

Sessions with notes:

• Architectural value, guidelines, and process (Etherpad:RFC_process_summit)
• Service-oriented architecture (Etherpad:service_oriented_architecture)
• Storage services and API versioning (Etherpad:storage_services)
• Configuration (Etherpad:configuration)
• Frontend performance (Etherpad:performance)
• HTML templating (Etherpad:html_templating)
• UI styling (Etherpad:ui_styling)
• Last day retrospective (ArchitectureSummitRetrospective)

Friendly space policy

This event is covered by the Wikimedia Foundation's friendly space policy.