Hi all!
Please find below minutes of the last ArchCom meeting
The minutes can be fond at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-12-07.
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/.
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People present: Members: Brion, Daniel (chair), Gabriel, Tim. Guest: Victoria Coleman (CTO)
* Victoria joined to meeting to get an idea of how ArchCom operates
* Victoria will attend ArchCom meetings as much as time allows
* Work on thumbnail API (T66214) is progressing, follow-up meeting to be announced (Gabriel)
* Web API outage (T151702) is being investigated/evaluated (Gabriel, Tim, Kunal, and others)
* Code experiments started for using Varnish’s xkey feature in Wikibase (T152425) (Daniel)
* Victoria suggest to have a regular meeting to review/prioritize technical debt. ArchCom to be invited.
* Lego’s Deprecation Policy RFC (T146965) to be discussed on December 14. Fallback: thumb API (T66214).
On 12 December 2016 at 16:01, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Daniel Kinzler < daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
- Victoria suggest to have a regular meeting to review/prioritize
technical
debt. ArchCom to be invited.
Thank you! Systematic focus on that has long been overdue.
Seconding what Gergo said. A while back, I said something to the effect of the WMF being busy building detours instead of fixing the pot-holes. A systematic prioritization of technical debt would go a long way to resolving that problem. That's not to deprecate the hard work and investment of all of the staff and volunteer developers that keeps the place functional and brings new and desirable features to the users - thank you all.
Risker/Anne
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