Hi,
The Architecture Committee plans to make a decision in two weeks on the RFC about the schema change for image and oldimage tables. [1] [2]
Please review the updated RFC page [2] and send any final comments here on Wikitech-l or Phabricator [1] by 2017-02-01. If no new and significant concerns are raised within this time the committee will most likely approve the RFC on Wednesday, February 1st.
-- Timo
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T589 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ image_and_oldimage_tables