Architecture committee/2016-04-13

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

Agenda timeline

• Agenda bashing and action item check 21:00 (5 minutes)
• Last week+this week’s RfC office hour 21:05 (5 minutes)
• RfC inbox triage 21:10 (10 minutes)
• Shepherd assignments 21:20 (5 minutes)
• Queue for future RfC office hours 21:25 (5 minutes)
• Other business 21:30 (10 minutes)
• Next week’s ArchCom agenda 21:40 (10 minutes)

Meeting summary

• Action items
  • (anything from last week (E157)?)
  • Daniel: talk about setting up a working group for DI
• Last week+this week’s RfC office hour
  • Last week: Phab:E158
  • This week: Phab:E159
• RFC Status Update editing
  • See below
• Queue for future RfC office hours:
  • 2016-04-20: Phab:E162
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91162
  • 2016-04-27: Phab:E66/32
• Other business 0:30 (10 minutes)
  • Gabriel out next week.
• Next week’s ArchCom agenda 0:40 (10 minutes)

Status update

RFC "Needs shepherd" column

From the ArchCom-RFC board

• T30085: RFC: Allow user login with email address in addition to username: Last update October. Issue is email addresses associated with multiple accounts.  Possibly related to AuthManager work.
  • ACTION: RobLa - comment on task T30085 (done)
• T128352: RfC: Need to merge Notifications and Watchlist or lack thereof: Very much a product question.
  • ACTION: Gabriel to comment. (done)
• T39902: RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks in Parsoid HTML as post-processor
  • ACTION: Gabriel to comment (done)
• T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core: Addshore and Anomie have been working on this recently.
  • ACTION: Daniel to comment (done)

Approved RFCs

T108655 Standardise access to JavaScript interfaces (Roan): Previously approved. Implementation landed in master this week.

Entering Final Comment Period

No RFCs entered FCP this week.

This week's IRC meeting

• T130567 RFC: Hygienic transclusions for WYSIWYG, incremental parsing & composition,
• T114444 DOM scopes, and T114445 Balanced templates: (Tim) The discussion exposed two main questions: 1) How to best resolve content model conflicts, and 2) whether to (eventually) default to balanced templates or not. The implementation in T114445 proposes a solution to mark specific templates for balancing, and explores two options for conflict resolution. The discussion will continue on the tasks.

Next week’s IRC meeting

• T91162 Shadow namespaces (brion): A proposed mechanism for sharing content like templates or modules cross-wiki, similar to how InstantCommons and foreign file repos work. Kunal is getting ready to work on this.