Architecture committee/2016-08-24
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)
See also TechCom-RFC workboard in Phabricator. (Private minutes)
Agenda/Minutes
[edit]This section will also serve as the collaboratively edited minutes of the meeting, and will as the official minutes of the meeting. Attendees: Fill in the important details in this section, but try to keep this concise and NPOV (easy way: use questions). Put any prep information in this section if appropriate
Intro section
[edit]10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)
- Action items
- Last week: Architecture committee/2016-08-17
- ACTION: Rob: make sure we spend a few minutes each week discussing WikiDev17
- ACTION: Rob to talk to Subbu about assignee on T142803 (done; see my section)
- ACTION: Rob: add language variant item to next weeks planning agenda (done (sorta) see my section, also welcome David!)
- Last week: Architecture committee/2016-08-17
- Review last week’s RfC office hour
- E261 - Content model storage (T105652)
- Gergo is considering working on this
- Brion will help when he can
- ACTION: Daniel: send email to wikitech-l asking for WMF help on MCR
- E261 - Content model storage (T105652)
- Update attendee list
- In attendance: RobLa, Brion, Daniel, Kevin, Tim, Timo, David Chan
- Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
- RSVP
- yes: Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, RobLa, Timo
- no:
- maybe/unknown: Brion, Roan, Tim
RFC status update
[edit]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:
- Plan upcoming IRC meeting (E263)
- Who is chairing the upcoming IRC meeting? Rob
- For upcoming meeting, do we anticipate the RFC moving into "final comment"? Possibly
- Picking an RFC for next week:
- How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
- Where should anything in the inbox go?
- What is the most important thing each ArchCom member is shepherding? Anything blocked?
- Brion Vibber.
- Fixing video stuff for mobile
- Next up: Wiki doc model - pulling out rfcs in the queue. MCR
- Daniel Kinzler.
- Following up on MCR
- Wikidata stable interfaces https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy
- Gabriel Wicke...
- Rob Lanphier
- 2016W33: Working with Subbu on Wikitext spec (T142803)
- 2016W34: Language variants (see User:RobLa-WMF/Variants and T143628)
- Roan Kattouw...
- Tim Starling.
- CScott’s balancer vs Depurate
- Parser tests with balancer
- Goal: all PHP
- Timo Tijhof
- image and oldimage: draft soon, want more input T589 RFC: image and oldimage tables
- ACTION: RobLa: prod T589 (rolling migrations? next steps?)
- Brion Vibber.
- Are responsibilities balanced well between ArchCom members?
- Which RFCs are listed as "needs triage"?
- Do we have an RFC selected for next week's meeting?
- How does ArchCom-RfCs board look?
Other business/planning
[edit]20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716 - balancing
- Script transliteration
- Vocab substitution
- ACTION: RobLa: work with CScott on breaking up T43716
- ACTION: Brion: comment on T43716
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716#2580532
- WikiDev17
- Next week's ArchCom