Hi all!

I thought I'd resume the practice of sending a summary of the Architecture Committee meeting to this list.

The minutes of Wedensday's meeting can be fond at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-11-23.

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:

* ArchCom soon to meet Victoria (perhaps Dec 7) * Robla resigns from ArchCom in the wake of leaving WMF. Daniel is doing the chairing for now. * Ongoing activity: ** Brion: mobile video ** Gabriel: thumbnail API (Gabriel), ServiceWorkers for the discovery portal ** Tim: replacing tidy ** Timo: oldime table refactoring ** Daniel: experimenting with the Interwiki overhaul, thinking about db schema optimization * Talking with Faidon about ArchCom scope, progess, and impact. Some key points that came up: ** ArchCom should be more arcive in providing visions and guideleines, such as high level architecture documents. ** ArchCom should be involved in more of the ongoing developemnt at WMF. People tend to ask ArchCom only if they have to. ** ArchCom should not only get active when asked. ArchCom scruteny should not be limited to RFC discussions. ** For RFC discussions, we too often focus on easy-to-decide topics with limited impact ** Lack of ops perspective in ArchCom ** A clearer scope / charter would be helpful ** Role of ArchCom needs to be discussed with our new CTO ** ArchCom has no clear connection to WMF org chart, and no power in resourcing. Platforms (mostly MediaWiki itself) are not well represented in the org chart. * Up for next week’s IRC discussion: ''Per-language URLs for multilingual wiki pages'' (T114662).