Architecture committee/2017-05-31

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)

• ArchCom Charter is up for discussion, please read and comment! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter
• Last Call: Ladsgroup proposed adding an index to rc_this_oldid a year ago, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139012. We think it’s find, but if you have objections, or want to have more stuff changed in the recentchanges table, please speak up now! If all pertinent objections are addressed by June 14, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
• Yesterday's RFC discussion: Making MW's PostgreSQL schema more similar to the MySQL schema: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164898
• Next week’s RFC discussion: Drop the requirement for every namespace to have a talk namespace: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
• Brad has posted an update to the RFC on storing long revision comments: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333
• Tim is proposing to start using PHP namespaces consistently in MW core (PSR-4): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010