Architecture committee/2016-09-21

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/Minutes

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

10 minutes (starting 21:00 UTC)

• Action items
  • Moved under individual people in the RFC status update section
• Review 2016W36 RfC office hour (2016-09-07)
  • E269 - Discussion about WikiDev17
    • We all need to make sure we’re individually talking with Quim
• Last week's minutes
  • Architecture committee/2016-09-14
    • Is there a use case for secondary data in the DB?  Daniel learned that maybe not.
• Update attendee list
  • In attendance: Brion, Daniel, Kevin, RobLa, Tim
  • Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
  • RSVP
    • yes:
    • no:
    • maybe/unknown:

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?
• Conclude last week's "final comment period"? 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:
  • Phab board triage
    • ArchCom-RfCs board - "Inbox" column
      • T145604 Future of magic links  - Tim will shepherd...
      • T145472 Surveying Cookie Use… Rob will shepherd
      • T40417 MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl. Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block...
      • T129842 Code Review Committee...
    • Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
  • ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
    • Brion Vibber.
      • TMH - wrapping up in 3 weeks(?)
    • Daniel Kinzler…
      • MCR
      • Sites refactoring
    • Gabriel Wicke...
    • Rob Lanphier
      • Wikimedia Product & Tech Onsite
        • Dev Summit discussion
        • Wikitext discussion
      • Completed action items
        • ACTION: Moving T589 to “in discussion” (done)
        • ACTION: Rob: populate inbox for meeting in two weeks (done)
          • I don't get to really take credit for this....it just happened  :-)
        • ACTION: Rob: does “last call” belong on wikitech-l (per Timo) (filed as T146307)
        • ACTION: Brion and Rob to discuss next FY16-17Q2 Wikimedia Architecture Team goals (done, and ongoing)
        • ACTION: Rob: Bring up MCR on behalf of Daniel at WMF onsite (done-ish)
        • ACTION: Rob: shepherd Parsing/Notes/Wikitext_2.0 (assigned; page is now Requests for comment/A Spec For Wikitext)
        • ACTION: Rob: announce cancellation of Phab:E271 (done)
    • Roan Kattouw...
    • Tim Starling.
      • Planning Parser Test features for Tidy replacement
    • Timo Tijhof
      • Status check:
        • ACTION: Timo: figure out who should shepherd T133462 (load multi-file .js packages)
  • 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?
    • This week: Dev Summit
      • Dev Summit
      • ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
    • T145604 Future of magic links

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• WikiDev17
• Next week's ArchCom