Architecture committee/2017-03-22

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 (chair), Gabriel, Kevin (notes), Tim, Timo

Recent activity:

• etcd under consideration for configuration management, see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156924>.
• Adam Shoreland (User:addshore) is working on an extension for transferring files from Wikipedia to Commons, with the full history intact. See <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140462>
• Input wanted on overriding namespaces defined in extension.json, see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160462> and the “Letting configurations override namespace registration of extensions” thread on wikitech-l.
• Some activity regarding error message i18n on the RFC on JSON validation: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147137>.

Past session on mobileFrontend requirements:

• Detailed note at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/OCCAM/ArchCom-03-15-2017>.
• We had a presentation and Q/A session on hangout, with notes taken on IRC, and some questions taken from IRC. We failed to get the youtube stream working, but we did not max out hangout.
• Using a video conference for a high level overview session seems moderately successful, with room for improvement on the details. ArchCom will consider this mode for some future public meetings. We may try a different video conference service next time. Has anyone tried Spreed <https://www.spreed.me/>? We could even host it, see <https://nextcloud.com/webrtc/>.

Upcoming RFC discussion, March 29:

• “Canonical data URIs and URLs for machine readable page content” <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161527>.
• The discussion will take place in the IRC channel #mediawiki-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).