Architecture committee/2014-10-22

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

Pending 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.
  • Roan told them this, but they didn't end up doing anything (internal miscommunication)
  • at least there's action on the changeset
  • yeah; at this point the RfC basically is that changeset, but it needs a longer blurb about what's actually being done in that change and why
• 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
  • Rachel says they are meeting this week or next week or both to make initial plans, and will get back to us when they have something for us to do
• Brion to draft expansion email today
  • http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/archnote draft
  • Looks good to me
  • sent
• brion: flesh out Graph rfc w/ Yuri
  • not done yet
• Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
  • Consider: paging sucks. Pure client-side possible?
  • not done yet

RFCs to triage

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redesign_user_preferences
  • clean up UI
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Core_user_preferences
  • cut down available prefs to those that are most used
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Need_to_merge_Notifications_and_Watchlist_or_lack_thereof
  • needs some prelim feedback. push to echo team for that? Contacts in that team: S Page (scrum master), Danny Horn (product manager)
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Inline_diffs
  • Daniel says: Seems like a feature request
  • Maybe Chad can be product manager?
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Isolate_custom_jQuery_libraries
  • for meeting next week

RFC scheduling

This week (Oct 22)

• Scoped language converter
• HTML templating library

Next week (Oct 29)

• Core user preferences
• Redesign user preferences
  • make a call for folks to work on it:
  • needs someone from core to work on core bloat
  • needs someone from ui/frontend to help with cleanup and ux design
• Isolate custom jQuery libraries
  • needs Timo :)

Other business

• On finding resources for RFC implementation: Tim suggests having phab tasks for RFC-related project proposals
• Phabricator-based management of RFCs:

   ** Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator
   ** Quim to make RFC project
   

New action items

• brion: catch up with jon robson about the html templating rfc blurb to update it to current changeset & upcoming plans
• [?] start putting approved RfCs into phabricator for tracking
  • -> start priotizing
• brion: start an Arch/RfC entry in Scrum of Scrums for cross-team asks
• Tim to ask S Page about "Need to merge Notifications and Watchlist or lack thereof"
  • You may wish to CC Danny Horn, he's the product manager for Echo/Flow
• brion: prep some agenda items for Summit in January: make sure we have some plans for how to deal with RfCs that are basically feature requests; bump them to functional teams for work once we've determined there's no arch problem?
• Tim to write RFC on merging enhanced recentchanges with normal RC
• Tim to Import all RFCs into phabricator