Architecture committee/2017-03-01
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)
Present: Brion, Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Kevin (notes), Tim, Timo, Victoria
Minutes
[edit]Approved RFCs
[edit]- phab:T122942 (Support language variants in the REST API): Will use Accept-Language headers.
Active RFCs
[edit]- phab:T66214: Define an official thumb API: Description updated to reflect the latest discussion.
- phab:T155813: Decide on storage and delivery method for TemplateStyles CSS
Further news:
[edit]- New hot topic: Progressive Web Apps. Watch for a public ArchCom session on this topic soon. Ties in with discussion regarding JS frameworks in the Frontend Standardization Group.
- Tim is thinking about automating wiki creation, see phab:T158730
- Release Engineering wants to get rid of LocalizationUpdate, see phab:T158360
- Next week’s IRC meeting: Anothr round of Brion’s “fix the revision table”, see mw:User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table_round_2
- The new MediaWiki team is up and running, with Tim Starling in the lead. There is a job opening for Product Manager for MediaWiki, see https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/613548?gh_src=1u385n1