Architecture committee/2016-06-15

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)

Agenda timeline

• Intro
  • Agenda bashing and action item check 21:00 (5 minutes)
  • Review last week's RfC office hour 21:05 (5 minutes)
• RFC status update
  • RfC inbox triage 21:10 (10 minutes)
  • Shepherd assignments 21:20 (5 minutes)
  • Queue for future RfC office hours 21:25 (5 minutes)
• Wrapup
  • Other business 21:30 (10 minutes)
  • Next week’s ArchCom agenda 21:40 (10 minutes)

Agenda details/Meeting summary

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Intro section

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

• Action items
  • Last week (Architecture committee/2016-06-08)
    • RobLa: make proposal "Backlog" column (not done, but now tracked as T137860)
• Review last week’s RfC office hour
  • Phab:E203
    • T89331: Replace Tidy in MW parser with HTML 5 parse/reserialize
      • Discussion about migration strategy

RFC status update

Ensuring Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date:

• Today’s IRC topic: T120452: Allow tabular datasets on Commons (or some similar central repository) (CSV, TSV, JSON, XML) (See also: comments in T124569 and T134426)
  • Brion points out two questions
    • Tech issues of “is this acceptable? e.g. queries from Lua?”
    • Which site?
      • is this in the jurisdiction of ArchCom?
      • how should we define the scope?  what will be the relationship with Wikidata?
• Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting?  RobLa
• Conclude last week's "final comment period"? Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?  Nope
• Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
  • Going to Wikimania?
    • Yes: Daniel, Timo
    • No: Brion, Kevin, Tim, RobLa
    • Unknown: Roan, Gabriel
• For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?  Nope
• How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
  • Where should anything in the inbox go?
• Roundtable:
  • Daniel
    • Search on Wikidata; pushback on everything else
    • Site refactoring is on my mind
    • Wishlist to work on: Multi-content revisions, will work with Brion in July on this
    • Wishlist: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114640
  • Timo

• Keeping track of CSP header RFC
• Busy with perf refactoring ResourceLoader
• Wishlist: RFC driven frontend (will talk with Gabriel)

• • Brion
    • Try to push some more on multi-content revisions
      • Plan a work sprint with Daniel in first week of July
    • Going through backlog
    • Write up RFCs for native SVG, adaptive-streaming video storage, a few other things
  • Tim
    • Balanced templates RFC will be coming around.  Scott wrapping up implementation
    • Last week’s RFC
  • RobLa
    • Security
    • Discussing T112999
      • Tim: maybe the thing after Parsoid
      • -> various future-proofing issues of HTML format need to be worked out for the day when you can’t just regen everything from the wikitext
  • Not present: Roan, Gabriel
• Next week?
  • Topic
    • What do you all consider important?
    • MediaWiki support for Markdown?  Parsoid model for Markdown?
    • ACTION: send out RFC (or at least email) about this topic
    • T137926 require curl extension for PHP?
• What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked? Are responsibilities balanced well?

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• Is it time to look at the #ArchCom board more seriously?
• Next week's ArchCom

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