Architecture committee/2016-08-31

Agenda/Minutes

Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

Action items
- Last week
  - ACTION: Daniel: send email to wikitech-l asking for WMF help on MCR
    - Blocked on finishing design doc https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions
  - ACTION: RobLa: prod T589 (rolling migrations? next steps?) (done)
  - ACTION: RobLa: work with CScott on breaking up T43716 (ongoing)
  - ACTION: Brion: comment on T43716 (done)
Review last week’s RfC office hour
- E263 ArchCom RFC Meeting W34: T69223: Schema change for page content language
  - Last call over
Update attendee list
- In attendance: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
- 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? T589
Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"? Try to get to last call on T589
For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
Picking an RFC for next week:
- Phab board triage
  - ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
    - (empty)
  - Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
    - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143974
      - Cause: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/305211/ together with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132707
      - Fix https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/307133/ and folow-up fix https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/307721/
      - ACTION: RobLa will move to “managed outside” column, ping RelEng
  - Other RFCs that had activity this past week:
    - T353: RFC: Vertical writing support
      - mxn} wrote: "Here’s the pull request Yair_rand submitted to CSSJanus, currently blocked on this pull request."
    - T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces
      - @Yurik, @Legoktm, and @Rical discussed
    - T102476: RFC: Requirements for change propagation
      - I removed myself as the assignee, but remaining as shepherd, and I moved this to the "on track" column.
    - T107595: [RFC Multi-Content Revisions]
      - Daniel is working on T141877
    - T119908: [RfC: Migrate code review / management from Gerrit to Phabricator]
      - Removed myself as assignee, staying on as shepherd
    - T124752: [RFC Expiring watch list entries]
      - Asked about in Scrum-of-Scrums today
    - T139810: RFC: Overhaul the CheckUser extension
      - Prose of RFC now available on mw.org. Many supporting tasks (e.g. T144099) filed
    - T142803: [RFC STUB: Creating a spec for legacy wikitext / future wiki content processing model]
      - @ssastry posted a first draft at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Notes/Wikitext_2.0
  - Phab activity from recent/upcoming IRC meetings
    - E261: ArchCom RFC Meeting W33: content model storage (2016-08-17, #wikimedia-office)
      - T142980: RFC: Create a content meta-data table
    - E263: ArchCom RFC Meeting W34: T69223: Schema change for page content language (2016-08-24, #wikimedia-office)
      - T69223: Schema change for page content language
    - E266: ArchCom RFC Meeting W35: image and oldimage tables (2016-08-31, #wikimedia-office)
      - T589: RfC: image and oldimage tables
- ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
  - Brion Vibber…
    - Finishing up TMH mobile
    - Next up: Wikitext spec
  - Daniel Kinzler…
    - Consolidating revision design stuff. Discussing schema with Jaime
    - ACTION: Daniel - move conv with Jaime onto a talk page somewhere
  - Gabriel Wicke…
    - Page composition using service workers and server-side JS fall-back: aiming to set up demo this week
    - Protect sensitive user-related information with a UserData / auth / session service: Converging on requirements.
  - Rob Lanphier..
    - Working with Subbu
    - Process stuff with Kevin (see my recent changes on mw.org)
  - Roan Kattouw…
    - Unburying :-) (management stuff)
    - JS API 2nd RFC
    - x-wiki watchlist (will work on this first)
  - Tim Starling…
    - Parsing team offsite in October
    - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/parsing_team_offsite
    - rewrite of parser tests
  - Timo Tijhof…
    - img/oldimg
    - prototype for api driven front-end
- 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?
  - T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces
    - @Yurik, @Legoktm, and @Rical discussed
    - ACTION Tim: check with Kunal
    - Backup plan: triage

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

WikiDev17
- ACTION: Rob:
Next week's ArchCom
ACTION: Rob: Follow up on last week’s glitch