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/2017-06-14.
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:
* Final Call for comments, until June 28: Drop requirement for defining talk namespaces for custom namespaces https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165149 If all pertinent objections are addressed by June 14, this RFC will be approved for implementation.
* Discussion coming up next week, June 21: Making MediaWiki PSR-4 compliant (Tim) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010 As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).
* Discussion on the T-Comm (ne ArchCom) Charter is ongoing, please participate: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Architecture_committee/Charter
* Bryan Davis proposes some sort of framework for setting up more groups/committees like ArchCom, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164551
* Krinkle revived the old discussion about using HTTP redirects for redirect pages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53736. Current solution is not ideal; time to re-evaluate alternatives, even though none of them seems perfect either.
* Work on MCR: Brad is working on revision comment storage, and Brion is working on normalized storage of user names (“actors”), see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167246
* Approved after Final Call: Add index to rc_this_oldid by Ladsgroup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139012
* Discussed this week, June 14: Readling list service architecture (Readers team) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990