Architecture committee/2017-06-14

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)

• Work on MCR: Brad is working on revision comment storage, and Brion is working on normalized storage of user names (“actors”), see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167246
• Krinkle revived the old discussion about using HTTP redirects for redirect pages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. Current solution is not ideal; time to re-evaluate alternatives, even though none of them seems perfect either.
• Approved after Final Call: Add index to rc_this_oldid by Ladsgroup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139012
• Discussed this week, June 14: Readling list service architecture (Readers team) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990
• Final Call for comments, until June 28: Drop requirement for defining talk namespaces for custom namespaces https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149
• Discussion coming up next week, June 21: Making MediaWiki PSR-4 compliant (Tim) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010
• Discussion on the T-Comm (ne ArchCom) Charter is ongoing, please participate: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Architecture_committee/Charter
• Bryan Davis proposes some sort of framework for setting up more groups/committees like ArchCom, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164551