Architecture committee/2017-06-07

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)

• New RFC: “Move most of MediaWiki within a /core folder” https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167038 and “Make MediaWiki Core a Dependency of MediaWiki” https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166956. The initial reaction from ArchCom after very brief review was: “sounds scary, why do we need this?”.
• Kevin Smith to take on a more active role in RFC discussions and other ArchCom related processes.
• Discussion is ongoing on the charter proposal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter
• The RFC for adding an index on rc_this_oldid is entering the last week of the last call period https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139012
• RFC discussion next week: “Reading List” https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990. A brief discussion by ArchCom revealed that this is distinct from the idea of multiple watchlists since it’s cross-wiki, and is less complex than cross-wiki watchlist(s) because no notifications or feeds are needed. As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).