Architecture committee/2016-10-05

Agenda/Minutes

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Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

Action items
- Last week
  - (fill me in)
Review last week’s RfC office hour
- E285 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E285
Update attendee list
- In attendance:Brion, Tim, Gabriel, RobLa
- Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
- RSVP
  - yes: Brion, Tim, Gabriel, RobLa
  - 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?
- Topic Magic links - Tim will chair
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
    - Phab:T147158 - Use YAML instead of JSON for structured on-wiki content
      - Brion will shepherd
      - Gabriel likes TOML (from Rust)
    - Phab:T147137 - JSON validation
      - Brion will shepherd
      - ACTION: Gabriel to comment on T147137
    - Phab:T146965 - Deprecation policy for PHP code in MediaWiki
      - Who owns each product (and who is empowered to decide)?
      - What is the interface to extensions?
      - Tim will shepherd
    - Phab:T129842 - Decide whether to have a "Code Review" committee / working group
      - ACTION: RobLa to review W38 transcript
  - Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
- ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
  - Brion Vibber
    - ACTION: Tim to talk to Brion about next steps on MCR (possibly a wider Hangout) (goal: possibly spearheading an RFC)
    - ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
  - Daniel Kinzler...
  - Gabriel Wicke
    - API driven frontend / offline
      - Working group kicked off last week. Meeting every 2 weeks (Thursday morning SF time).
      - Prototyping work ongoing (demo for streaming composition). First performance results for streaming response composition promising.
  - Rob Lanphier..
    - ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
    - ACTION: document outcome of W38 ArchCom Planning discussion about T129842 Code Review Committee (E272)
    - WikiDev17
  - Roan Kattouw...
  - Tim Starling
    - ACTION: Tim to talk to Brion about next steps on MCR (possibly a wider Hangout) (goal: possibly spearheading an RFC)
  - Timo Tijhof
    - 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?
  - CREDITS https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

WikiDev17
Next week's ArchCom

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