Hi all!
Here are the minutes from this week's ArchCom meeting. You can also find the minutes at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2017-03-08.
See also the ArchCom status page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status and the RFC board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/.
Here are the minutes, for your convenience:
Active RFCs: * <section> tags for MediaWiki sections https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114072: Parsing team is considering best semantics for section wrapping. * How should we store longer revision comments? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333: to be combined with the morge general discussion about refactoring the revision table * Disabling LocalisationUpdate on WMF wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158360: RE wants to drop it, but there is some pushback. Also, there are concerns about the current implementation.
Yesterday’s RFC meeting: Brion’s proposal for optimizing the revision table (again). * Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-03-08-22.03.html * Related RFC “How should we store longer revision comments? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333” will be folded into Brion’s proposal. * This is related to but separate from MCR https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595. Proper RFC ticket(s) to be filed soon.
Next week’s RFC meeting (tentative, pending confirmation): * explore High - Level Mobilefrontend Requirements (JavaScript frameworks, Progressive Apps, and all that jazz) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1id-E_KELGGA3X5H4K44I6zIX3SEgZ0sF_biOY4INCqM/edit#heading=h.xs2aq4j4wzse. * NOTE: we plan to experiment with having a public HANGOUT meeting, instead of using IRC.
Other topics: * Tim Starling has been looking at etcd https://coreos.com/etcd/ for configuration management and potentially other use cases. See also T149617 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149617.