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/2017-03-29>.
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:
On the ArchCom’s Mind:
* REST API 1.0 to be announced as stable! <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/REST_API>
* The services team updated their requirements document for the container
pipeline:
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UNl3P4Ky_K_qu3Md700xeDMEyThF07jXqr1eIH1nCWQ/edit>
* The proposal to get rid of LocalizationUpdate seems to have been replace by a
drive to rewrite it to integrate with git more closely, see the discussion on
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158360>
* Ladsgroup is working on using Redis as a distributed lock managing mechanism
for Wikidata change dispatching, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151993
and
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-propagation.wiki>
* On a related note, Services team is discussing replacing Redis with a Kafka
based solution for some use cases. Ask GWicke for details. There is a related
discussion about replacing the JobQueue with changeprop and EventBus. (note:
Wikidata change dispatching is not (yet) “changeprop”). See
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149408> and
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157088>
* As the new MediaWiki Platform team is taking shape, it has taken ownership of
some previously orphaned parts of the MediaWiki code base, see
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=2428275&oldid=2382496&title=Developers/Maintainers>
and <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Platform_team>
Input wanted:
* Input wanted on “Provide standard-compatible way to load multi-file packages”
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133462>
* The idea of building a standalone password verification service is being
revived, input wanted: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120484>
RFC discussions:
* We discussed “Canonical data URIs and URLs for machine readable page content”
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161527> on Wednesday. There was rough
consensus for URLs of the form
https://commons.wikimedia.org/data/Data:Avignon_City_Wall.map redirecting to
action=raw URLs. Full log:
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-03-29-21.01.log.html>.
Daniel will refine the writeup and then announce the RFC for a Last Call. If no
new pertinent concerns are raised during the last call period, the RFC will be
approved an April 12.
* There is no public RFC discussion scheduled for next Wednesday, April 5.
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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.