Architecture committee/2014-10-15
People present: Brion, Tim, Mark, Roan, Daniel, Quim
Pending action items
edit- 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
edit- 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
editToday (Oct 15)
edit- 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)
edit- Scoped language converter? cscott is on vacation this week but back on Monday
- HTML templating library (brion/roan/FSG -> finalize rfc)
Other business
edit- 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
edit- 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?