Architecture committee/2016-08-17

Minutes

Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

Action items
- Last week
  - ACTION: Timo to mail wikitech-l and encourage further conversation about details of the oldimage schema changes (T589), and migration plan. (done)
  - ACTION: Rob to take T139300 shepherd role (done)
  - ACTION: Rob: make sure we spend a few minutes each week discussing WikiDev17
  - ACTION: Brion: catch up on "Notifications in core" (T128351) discussion
    - Rob will take this off the action item list
  - ACTION: Daniel to write email regarding T105652 (cc RobLa) (done)

Review last week’s RfC office hour
- <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-08-10>
Update attendee list
- In attendance: Brion, Daniel, Kevin, RobLa, Tim
- Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
- RSVP
  - yes:
  - no:
  - maybe/unknown:

RFC status update

20 minutes (starting 21:10 UTC)

Spend roughly 20 minutes ensuring Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date. Checklist of the questions we should answer:

Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting?
- T105652 - Rob to chair
- Pick an option
  - a. Implement this RFC as originally approved
  - b. Implement a modified proposal fully described by T142980, with one extra table but no new columns, to also cater to the needs of multi content revisions (T107595).
  - c. Start over (don't pick this one!)
Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
Picking an RFC for next week:
- How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
  - Inbox
    - Phab:T142803 Creating a spec for legacy wikitext / future wiki content processing model
      - Subbu filed this last week following our meeting
      - Rob possible assignee
      - Tim is shepherd
      - ACTION: Rob to talk to Subbu about assignee on T142803 (Rob thinking of volunteering)
      - ACTION: assignee to set priority on T142803
    - Phab:T69223 Schema change for page content language
      - Dereckson requested that have an IRC meeting soon about this one (in T69223#2539474)
      - Tim will shepherd
- What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
  - Brion Vibber.
    - TMH on Mobile (reviving the migration from Kaltura to VideoJS which enables use on MobileFrontend), should have this shuffled back off my agenda in a few weeks.
  - Daniel Kinzler…
    - Today’s discussion prep
    - MCR
    - Backburner
      - Blob storage interface
  - Gabriel Wicke
    - API driven frontend: https://github.com/gwicke/node-serviceworker-proxy running basic serviceworker; initial page composition performance ~2k req/s
    - Future of PDF & collections
    - Protect sensitive user-related information with a UserData / auth / session service: Hoping to decide on storage backend.
  - Rob Lanphier.
    - Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date
    - Working with Comms
  - Roan Kattouw...
  - Tim Starling…
    - CScott is thinking about language converter issues; regularizing syntax; scoping issues
    - Language variant support
  - Timo Tijhof
    - T589 (oldimage migration): Details of schema change and migration path are being discussed. Leave comments on Phabricator.
    - T111588 (API-driven frontend): Working on prototype implementation.
- Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
- Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
- Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
  - Daniel suggests:
    - Page language - Phab:T69223 Schema change for page content language
    - Shadow namespace: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91162
  - Chosen: Page language - Phab:T69223 Schema change for page content language

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

WikiDev17
Next week's ArchCom
ACTION: Rob: add language variant item to next weeks planning agenda