Architecture committee/2016-10-19

Agenda/Minutes

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Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

Action items
- Last week
  - Show up at next week's meeting ;-)
  - RobLa: post the "minutes" from last week
Review last week’s RfC office hour
- E316: Create formal process for CREDITS files (T139300)
Update attendee list
- In attendance: Gabriel, RobLa, Timo
- Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
- RSVP
  - yes: Gabriel, RobLa, Timo
  - no: Brion, Daniel, Roan, Tim

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:

Upcoming IRC meeting:
- E323 - Survey Cookies/Local Storage usage on Wikimedia sites (T145472)
- mwgrep discussion
- Timo suggested:
  - AbuseFilter discussion - require confirmation?
  - Moving gadgets into Git?
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
  - Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
- ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
  - Brion Vibber...
  - Daniel Kinzler...
  - Gabriel Wicke.
    - API driven frontend
  - Rob Lanphier
    - There’s revived interest in T138783 (Figure out SVG sanitization strategy in wake of June conversation about intranet SVG use)
      - MothsART posted: “I'm not a draw.io user but i have the same limitation to upload svg files with foreign objects.”
      - Matmarex and RobLa-WMF chimed in
  - Roan Kattouw...
  - Tim Starling...
  - Timo Tijhof
    - oldimage RFC
- 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?
  - W43 - SVG (after checking with Darian)
  - W44 - oldimage(?)

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

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