Architecture committee/2016-04-27

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

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

Agenda details/Meeting summary

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Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

• Action items
  • Last week
    • ACTION: RobLa: notices about Apr 27 and May 4 meetings (Phab:E66/32 and Phab:E66/33)
    • ACTION: RobLa: create the new #ArchCom-Approved tag, and put this list of tasks on the agenda for next week (T133803)
    • ACTION: Tim announce ArchCom chairperson (done)
• Last week’s RfC office hour
  • April 20: Phab:E66/31
    • T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces
    • First phase: mostly approved (seems reasonable) Second phase: should have another
    • ACTION (Gabriel, Tim): comment on T91162 about next steps

RFC status update

20 minutes (starting 21:10 UTC)

• Query for shepherd assignments
• Query for all ArchCom RFCs
• ArchCom-RfCs board

Today's IRC session

• April 27: Phab:E66/32
  • T122942: RFC: Support language variants in the REST API
  • Who is chairing this one? Tim today

Queue for future RfC office hours

• May 4: Phab:E66/33
  • T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core  
  • Type of meeting: come to consensus.  Daniel is on vacation for the May 4 meeting, though, so probably won't attend.

Entering Final Comment Period

Nothing currently slated to go into final comment.

Under discussion

• The inbox
  • T133462 standardize a way to make JS components be able to use different loaders
  • T133388 How to update JavaScript components
• Around the table check-in with each of the ArchCom members
  • Absent: Brion, Roan, Timo
  • Daniel
    • Software Quality working group?
    • Working on Multi Content Rev Spec with Brion
  • Gabriel
    • T39902 RFC: Implement rendering of redlinks as post-processor (Gabriel): Solutions for highlighting links to non-existing pages in Parsoid HTML. Plan in place / agreed between Parsing and Services. Implementation in change propagation service under way.
    • T122942 RFC: Support language variants in the REST API (Gabriel): Scheduled for office hour today.
    • T122825 Service ownership and minimum maintenance requirements (Gabriel): Related mail discussion about OCG in the last days, exploring options for the way forward.
  • RobLa
    • ACTION (RobLa): clearer meeting agenda next week  :-)
    • ACTION (RobLa): schedule an RFC triage meeting outside of ArchCom-RFC time
  • Tim
    • No update this week

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• Retrospective meeting
• Next week's ArchCom