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/2017-03-01.

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:

APPROVED: * [[phab:T122942]] (Support language variants in the REST API): Will use Accept-Language headers.

Active RFCs: * [[phab:T66214]]: Define an official thumb API: Description updated to reflect the latest discussion. * [[phab:T155813]]: Decide on storage and delivery method for TemplateStyles CSS

Next Week on IRC: * Next week’s IRC meeting: Another round of Brion’s “fix the revision table”, see [[mw:User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table_round_2]]

Further news: * New hot topic: Progressive Web Apps. Watch for a public ArchCom session on this topic soon. Ties in with discussion regarding JS frameworks in the Frontend Standardization Group. * Tim is thinking about automating wiki creation, see [[phab:T158730]] * Release Engineering wants to get rid of LocalizationUpdate, see [[phab:T158360]] * The new MediaWiki team is up and running, with Tim Starling in the lead. There is a job opening for Product Manager for MediaWiki, see https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/613548?gh_src=1u385n1