Architecture committee/2016-07-06

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
    • ACTION (Rob [optional, lower priority]): provide update on Phab:T89331 that conversation is happening (done; more-or-less)
    • ACTION (Rob): talk to Product and/or Usability about T128352 (partially done)
      • I had a brief impromptu conv with Abbey and Danny (noted in Phab)
    • ACTION (Rob): better board triage (done, for some value of "better")  :-)
• Review last week’s RfC office hour
  • ArchCom-RFC office hour 2016W26: 2016-06-29: E224 (E66/41)
    • T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
      • Conclusion: Last Call
    • ACTION: Rob - remove the word “deprecate” from the status page
    • ACTION Krinkle - approve the last call

RFC status update

20 minutes (starting 21:10 UTC)

Spend roughly 20 minutes ensuring Architecture committee/Status is up-to-date. Checklist of the questions we should answer:

• Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting? Tim will chair, Rob will shepherd
• Conclude last week's "final comment period":
  • T137926 - Require 'curl' PHP extension for MediaWiki
• Do we have anything that should enter "final comment"?
• For each upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"?
• Picking an RFC for next week:
  • How does ArchCom-RfCs board look? Where should anything in the inbox go?
    • T139300 Create formal process for CREDITS files
      • Move to “Needs shepherd”, normal priority
    • T139012 Use index on rc_this_oldid
      • High priority, Daniel will shepherd, under discussion
    • T16950 Support global preferences
      • T120385 - language team’s work
      • ACTION Tim - comment on this task
      • ACTION: Rob: move to Backlog
    • T589 RfC: image and oldimage tables
      • Next week’s discussion
      • Move it to “ready for discussion”
      • ACTION: Rob Announce this as our topic for next week
  • What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
    • Daniel Kinzler
      • MCR
        • Wants to discuss file history on MCR next week
      • Parser target language
    • Rob Lanphier
      • My status section is more-or-less correct
    • Tim Starling
      • No relevant updates
    • Timo Tijhof
      • Mostly up-to-date, except for T589
    • Not present: Brion Vibber, Gabriel Wicke, Roan Kattouw
  • Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting? T589

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• In E224, Brion and RobLa agreed we should use this meeting to discuss a plan for having an installer beacon
• Next week's ArchCom