Architecture committee/2017-05-24

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, Roan, Victoria

• Lots of talk about JavaScript frameworks at the hackathon, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/16oL-_166IvPNkVV0qQ3HJGtK9CynY5okygf0GdPRw60/edit
• Stas is investigating ways to do deep category search using BlazeGraph, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165982
• Next steps towards MCR: At the hackathon, we decided on a rough roadmap for factoring information out of the revision table, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671#3279414
• New RFC: Tim is proposing a cleanup of the directory structure for core code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010
• New RFC: Daniel is proposing to drop the requirement for all namespaces to have an associated talk namespace: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
• New RFC: Add “reading list” feature to MediaWiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990
• RFC to be discussed on IRC on Wednesday, May 31 (pending confirmation from Tim): Making MediaWIki’s PostgreSQL schema more compatible with the MySQL schema: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898