Architecture committee/2017-03-15

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)

Present: Brion, Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Tim, Timo, Victoria, Kevin (notes), and someone in SF that I couldn’t identify

• Notable activity:
  • Disabling LocalisationUpdate on WMF wikis is on track; looks like it’ll be rewritten rather than removed. phab:T158360
  • CURL to become an optional dependency of MediaWiki, managed by composer
  • Template styling RFC has reached agreement. phab:T155813
  • Thumbnail API RFC has seen no acticity last week.phab:T66214
  • Brion is working with Jaime on a tool to check for DB schema inconsistencies between server.
• Public meeting on Mobile Frontend Requirements
  • Overview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jlBl_qAIrGPF7zqOmK77Db8y4InO1j3qX1qqipzJNmc/edit
  • Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-03-15-21.10.html
  • Outcome: Collected feedback, will reiterate
  • Using hangout was an experiment to see whether this is feasible and useful. We do not currently plan to make Hangout the default meeting mode. Observations:
    • We failed to get the youtube stream to work.
    • We did not come close to the 25 person limit for hangout.
    • Using IRC for logging is useful. Relaying questions and notes between IRC and Hangout works, but takes effort.
  • Please give feedback about using Hangout for this kind of meeting!
• No public meeting planned for next week (March 22)