The purpose of this straw poll is to gauge interest in the different topics that we could discuss during the upcoming Architecture Summit 2014 . We asked you to help us form clusters of related RFCs and we have now grouped those clusters in five themes:
Backend internals
APIs/Interfaces/Protocols
Frontend
Software management
Functionality We would like to ask all MediaWiki developers to vote in this straw poll. The results of the straw poll and the ideas of the organizing committee will form the final program.
Guidelines You can vote, by adding your name, to as many RFC clusters as you want (approval voting) but don't vote for anything that you wouldn't agree to take an action item on at the Architecture Summit.
We want to close this straw poll on January 8, 2014.
Help us in driving the turnout -- if you are missing names of people you think that should vote please prod them on our behalf as well. We really want the poll to reflect the interest of the entire MediaWiki community.
The clustering of the RFCs is taken from RFC clusters -- if you see a discrepancy between those two pages please either let Diederik know or be bold :)
Theme 1 - Backend internals
I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit
Total votes cast
Configuration
Chad , MarkTraceur , MaxSem , Legoktm , Steven W. , Parent5446 , Mglaser , MarkAHershberger , Nikerabbit , VasilievVV , Hoo man , TheDJ , Catrope , Ori , Krinkle , This, that and the other
16
Debugging
MaxSem , manybubbles , Parent5446 , Subbu , Superm401 , Gilles , Inez , bd808 , Duesentrieb , Ori , Krinkle
11
Storage services
MaxSem , Legoktm , Grunny , GWicke ; related to SQL abstraction and service-oriented architecture, Subbu , Inez , Maciej Szumocki , Duesentrieb , DAndreescu , arthur , Ori
11
Linking
Aude (think this somewhat overlaps with refactoring), Hoo man , Duesentrieb , This, that and the other
4
Media backend
MarkTraceur , manybubbles , Inez , bd808 , Duesentrieb , Ori
6
Parsing architecture
GWicke (despite the title, this is actually HTML storage and a no-parsing architecture), Subbu, James F. , Catrope , Maciej Szumocki , Duesentrieb , Krinkle
7
Parser changes
0
Performance
manybubbles , Steven W. , Grunny , James F. , Owen Davis , Nikerabbit , Gilles , VasilievVV , Inez , bd808 , Ori , Krinkle
12
Refactoring
MaxSem , Aude , Parent5446 , Subbu (UserMailer refactoring could be considered related to SOA RFC), Hoo man , Duesentrieb , arthur , This, that and the other
8
SQL abstraction
Chad , manybubbles , Parent5446 , Grunny , Mglaser , Owen Davis , MarkAHershberger (especially interested in alternate providers like Doctrine), Inez , Catrope , Maciej Szumocki , Krinkle
11
Theme 2 – APIs/Interfaces/Protocols
I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit
Total votes cast
CentralNotice
0
HTML templating
Tomasz , Kaldari , MaxSem , jdlrobson , MarkTraceur , manybubbles , Steven W. , Parent5446 , Grunny , GWicke , Ebernhardson , Mglaser , Superm401 , MarkAHershberger , Owen Davis , Nikerabbit , CSteipp , Inez , spage , TheDJ , Mlitn , bd808 , Matma Rex , SG , arthur , Krinkle
26
Metadata
MarkTraceur , Raymond , Superm401 , James F. , TheDJ , Chad , Maciej Szumocki , Duesentrieb , howief , DAndreescu , arthur
11
Mobile
Tomasz , jdlrobson , MaxSem , Inez , TheDJ , arthur
6
Parsed output access
MaxSem , MarkTraceur , manybubbles , Steven W. , GWicke , Subbu , James F. , Legoktm , Duesentrieb , Krinkle
10
Service-oriented architecture
Grunny , GWicke , Subbu , James F. , Owen Davis , Inez , bd808 , Catrope , Maciej Szumocki , Duesentrieb , howief , arthur , Ori , Krinkle
14
Thumbnail handling
MaxSem , bd808 , jdlrobson , arthur
4
URLs
Chad , Steven W. , Raymond , James F. , Krinkle , This, that and the other
6
Wikidata
Legoktm , Raymond , James F. , Inez , Maciej Szumocki , Duesentrieb , arthur , Ori
8
Theme 3 – Frontend
I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit
Total votes cast
Multimedia frontend
MarkTraceur , Tomasz , James F. , Gilles , Ori
5
UI/UX: styling
Tomasz , Steven W. , Superm401 , James F. , Nikerabbit , Santhosh , TheDJ , Yair rand , Matma Rex , jdlrobson , Catrope , DAndreescu , Ori , Krinkle
14
Theme 4 - Software management
I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit
Total votes cast
Backend code modularity frameworks
Parent5446 , Mglaser ,Owen Davis , Inez , bd808 , Duesentrieb
6
Installation
Parent5446 , Mglaser , Superm401 , MarkAHershberger , Nikerabbit , bd808 , Krinkle
7
MediaWiki management
Steven W. , Mglaser , MarkAHershberger , TheDJ , Matma Rex
5
Release process
Mglaser , MarkAHershberger , CSteipp , Matma Rex , Krinkle , This, that and the other
6
Software for/from third parties
Mglaser , MarkAHershberger ,Owen Davis , Nikerabbit , Santhosh , bd808 , Matma Rex , This, that and the other
8
Theme 5 – Functionality
I would like to see this RFC cluster included at the Architecture Summit
Total votes cast
Crosswiki
Legoktm , Aude , VasilievVV , CSteipp , Hoo man , Duesentrieb , Ori , Krinkle
8
General MediaWiki functionality
MZMcBride , James F. , Siebrand , TheDJ , Catrope , Duesentrieb , Ori , Nikerabbit (l10n json), Krinkle
9
Page protection and deletion
Mglaser , MarkAHershberger (Corporate users find this bit lacking), CSteipp , This, that and the other
4
Security
Steven W. , Parent5446 , Grunny , Superm401 , MarkAHershberger (very interested in the AuthStack bit), CSteipp , Hoo man , bd808 , howief , arthur
10
UI/UX: usability and discoverability
MarkTraceur , Steven W. , MZMcBride , James F. , Gilles , Inez , TheDJ , Matma Rex , howief , Ori
10
User customization/filterability
Superm401 , Matma Rex
2
Wiki tasks management
Krinkle
1
