Architecture committee/2016-09-21

Agenda/Minutes

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Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

Action items
- Moved under individual people in the RFC status update section
Review 2016W36 RfC office hour (2016-09-07)
- E269 - Discussion about WikiDev17
  - We all need to make sure we’re individually talking with Quim
Last week's minutes
- Architecture committee/2016-09-14
  - Is there a use case for secondary data in the DB? Daniel learned that maybe not.
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?
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:
- Phab board triage
  - ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
    - T145604 Future of magic links - Tim will shepherd...
    - T145472 Surveying Cookie Use… Rob will shepherd
    - T40417 MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block...
    - T129842 Code Review Committee...
  - Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
- ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
  - Brion Vibber.
    - TMH - wrapping up in 3 weeks(?)
  - Daniel Kinzler…
    - MCR
    - Sites refactoring
  - Gabriel Wicke...
  - Rob Lanphier
    - Wikimedia Product & Tech Onsite
      - Dev Summit discussion
      - Wikitext discussion
    - Completed action items
      - ACTION: Moving T589 to “in discussion” (done)
      - ACTION: Rob: populate inbox for meeting in two weeks (done)
        I don't get to really take credit for this....it just happened :-)
      - ACTION: Rob: does “last call” belong on wikitech-l (per Timo) (filed as T146307)
      - ACTION: Brion and Rob to discuss next FY16-17Q2 Wikimedia Architecture Team goals (done, and ongoing)
      - ACTION: Rob: Bring up MCR on behalf of Daniel at WMF onsite (done-ish)
      - ACTION: Rob: shepherd Parsing/Notes/Wikitext_2.0 (assigned; page is now Requests for comment/A Spec For Wikitext)
      - ACTION: Rob: announce cancellation of Phab:E271 (done)
  - Roan Kattouw...
  - Tim Starling.
    - Planning Parser Test features for Tidy replacement
  - Timo Tijhof
    - Status check:
      - ACTION: Timo: figure out who should shepherd T133462 (load multi-file .js packages)
- 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?
  - This week: Dev Summit
    - Dev Summit
    - ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
  - T145604 Future of magic links

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

WikiDev17
Next week's ArchCom