Architecture committee/2017-01-18

Present: Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Tim, Timo. Notes: Kevin

Minutes

2 RFCs approved after final call: Deprecation Policy (T146965) and Content Model Storage (T105652).
Multi-Content-Revisions (MCR, T107595) discussed at DeveloperSummit. Sorted out details of the DB schema with Jaime.
Ongoing discussion regarding distribution methods for MediaWiki and suppor for 3rd party installs.
- Related discussion about whether new features can require services serparate from MediaWiki core.
Thumbnail API is mostly stalled for now T66214.
Oldimage RFC (T589) to go on final call this week.
- Decided to keep media type and mime type fields for now. Thy are small, and now exposed via Cirrus Search; if we removed them from the table, they would need to love somewhere else. Also they are enums, and thus small.
- Tentative plan to fold image revision management into MCR at some point, but not until MCR is mature. Also, this schema change will make a later migration to MCR much easier.
ArchCom is considering changes to the RFC process. Discussion is ongoing. Key points:
- More focus on discussion in Phabricator
- More leight weight process for “small” RFCs
- ArchCom to focus more on review, less on process
- IRC meeting should not be the primary tool for discussing and approving RFCs
Next week’s IRC discussion: T154738 (Accessing page properties from wiki pages). Related:
- T71441: Feature request: add detection for disambiguation pages to Scribunto
- T131911: Allow retrieving/getting page image file name from wikitext using Scribunto/Lua or parser function or something
- T154346: Provide "wikitext" means of accessing arbitrary wiki page's default category sort key