Architecture committee/2014-10-01
People present: Tim, Mark, Roan, Quim
RFCs to triage edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC_metadata
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Change_LESS_compilation_library
- Next week's public meeting
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extension_registration
- Kunal asks for this to be discussed in the next public meeting
- Approved: next week's public meeting
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scoped_language_converter
- Roan suggests this for the public meeting the week of the 15th of October
Other business edit
- Announcement of committee expansion
- Following meeting
- Next meeting (Oct 8): LESS and extension registration
- RFC meeting time rotation
- Phabricator workboard (fyi): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/architecture/board/
- Procedure note:
- Agreed: strive to have multiple people looking at an RFC before approval, but an individual committee member may approve an RFC if they believe it will be uncontroversial.
Architecture Committee page edit
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee
Roles:
- create public RFC meeting agenda (RFCs to be discussed) to assess consensus
- discuss strategy / develop recommendations
Quim suggests a relationship between ArchCom and component maintainers -- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers
Pending action items edit
- Roan to talk to Trevor about "Change LESS compilation library"
- Trevor says he supports it
New action items edit
- Tim to send email to wikitech-l requesting suggestions of RFCs that people are interested in working on. Also mention in public IRC meeting.
- Tim to note, as part of another email, that we are expanding the committee, details to follow.
- Mark to email all committee (+Quim) about expansion, plans for meetings, meeting attendance, etc.
- Tim to create Architecture committee. Others to please edit.
- EVERYONE: think about architecture committee roles page
- Quim to publish committee minutes for now