Architecture committee/2016-11-09

The TechCom planning meeting is a weekly invite-only video discussion, generally held on Wednesday 13:00 USA Pacific Time.
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)

Present: Daniel Kinzler, Tim Starling, Brion Vibber, Gabriel Wicke; Kevin Smith for the first half, Quim Gill for the second half.

Minutes

• Status update / round table:
  • Tim: Working on tidy replacement
  • Gabriel: Thumb API (phab:T66214), ServiceWorker experiments. Consider going back to sending status emails.
  • Daniel: Pushing for a DB scaling session at the DevSummit
• Many stale tickets on the RFC board (phab:tag/mediawiki-rfcs). Should revise process, maybe just drop stale RFCs from the board.
• Need to revive the RFC shepherding process; Shepherding board isn't being used (phab:project/board/1892/).
• RFCs that had Robla as shepherd should go to needs-shepherd mode.
• Consider recruiting a new ArchCom member
• Consider splitting discussion about cross-wiki templates and Lua modules from the Shadow Namespaces RFC.
• Tim to chair today's IRC meeting (Thumbnail API)
• We will use next week's (November 16th) IRC meeting for an open triage session. ArchCom members should pick a few of their favorites to start the discussion.
• ArchCom to look through DevSummit proposals, prioritize them (how? ArchCom tag, or maybe tokens...)
• ArchCom should also help to avoid scheduling conflicts