Architecture committee/2016-10-05

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
  • Last week
    • (fill me in)
• Review last week’s RfC office hour
  • E285  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E285
• Update attendee list
  • In attendance:Brion, Tim, Gabriel, RobLa
  • Invited: Brion, Daniel, Gabriel, Kevin, Roan, RobLa, Tim, Timo
  • RSVP
    • yes: Brion, Tim, Gabriel, RobLa
    • 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?
  • Topic Magic links - Tim will chair
• 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
      • Phab:T147158 - Use YAML instead of JSON for structured on-wiki content
        • Brion will shepherd
        • Gabriel likes TOML (from Rust)
      • Phab:T147137 - JSON validation
        • Brion will shepherd
        • ACTION: Gabriel to comment on T147137
      • Phab:T146965 - Deprecation policy for PHP code in MediaWiki
        • Who owns each product (and who is empowered to decide)?
        • What is the interface to extensions?
        • Tim will shepherd
      • Phab:T129842 - Decide whether to have a "Code Review" committee / working group
        • ACTION: RobLa to review W38 transcript
    • Architecture board - "Discuss at next ArchCom Planning meeting" column
  • ArchComStatus discussion / ArchCom-Has-Shepherd board
    • Brion Vibber
      • ACTION: Tim to talk to Brion about next steps on MCR (possibly a wider Hangout) (goal: possibly spearheading an RFC)
      • ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
    • Daniel Kinzler...
    • Gabriel Wicke
      • API driven frontend / offline
        • Working group kicked off last week. Meeting every 2 weeks (Thursday morning SF time).
        • Prototyping work ongoing (demo for streaming composition). First performance results for streaming response composition promising.
    • Rob Lanphier..
      • ACTION: Brion and RobLa to meet about Dev Summit
      • ACTION: document outcome of W38 ArchCom Planning discussion about T129842 Code Review Committee (E272)
      • WikiDev17
    • Roan Kattouw...
    • Tim Starling
      • ACTION: Tim to talk to Brion about next steps on MCR (possibly a wider Hangout) (goal: possibly spearheading an RFC)
    • Timo Tijhof
      • 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?
    • CREDITS https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300

Other business/planning

20 minutes (starting 21:30 UTC)

• WikiDev17
• Next week's ArchCom

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