Architecture committee/2017-04-26

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: Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Kevin (notes), Roan, Tim, Timo, Victoria

Minutes

• “Canonical data URLs” has been approved: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161527
• “Deprecate unserialize” goes to final call: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161647
• “Long revision comments” to be discussed next Wednesday (May 3), pending confirmation from Kaldari: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333
• Active RFCs:
  • JS packages / dependency management: some work on implementation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107561
  • Multi-file resources: some discussion https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462
• Discussion started about major overhaul of the the database schema, particularly the revision table. See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350097/ and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161671 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table_round_2 for context.