Architecture committee/2016-06-29

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)
  • Review last 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

Intro section

• Action items
  • Last week
    • ACTION: Rob (done) - announce possibilities for E224
    • ACTION (Rob): ask question on ops list about the place (done)
    • ACTION (Rob [optional, lower priority]): provide update on Phab:T89331 that conversation is happening (not done)
    • ACTION (Rob): follow up with Faidon about filing a “limited menu of language options” RFC (done, I think(?))
• Review last week’s RfC office hour
  • Phab:E218 - Markdown support? T137946: RFC (WIP): develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki
    • RobLa will refine the RFC based on feedback from this meeting

RFC status update

• Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting?
  • E224 - Phab:T137926
  • RobLa will chair the discussion
• Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
• Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
  • T128352 ?  Lego
    • Need Product and/or Usability
    • ACTION (Rob): talk to Product and/or Usability
  • Other consideratoins
    • T136866 Programming languages?
    • MCR
    • Tidy RFC needs a resolution
• For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
• How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
  • Where should anything in the inbox go?
• What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
  • Brion Vibber - MCR sprint with Daniel coming up.  After that: shadow namespaces
  • Daniel Kinzler
  • Gabriel Wicke
  • Rob Lanphier - updated status
  • Roan Kattouw
  • Tim Starling - working with Scott .  Replace non-Tidy codepaths (see gerrit 296370)
  • Timo Tijhof  - API powered front end.  updated status page.  Considering MVP for non-MediaWiki use case (e.g. Wikipedia portal).  CSP
• Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
• Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?

Other business/planning

ACTION (Rob) better board triage