Gabriel Wicke wrote:
the two RFCs that originally discussed RESTBase are:
-
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Storage_service
-
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Content_API
They were both originally discussed at the arch summit in January 2014.
We have since had two more RFC meetings on the subject, most recently
November 20th, 2014.
Ah, awesome. Thanks for the links. :-)
I updated the RESTBase page on
mediawiki.org:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=1381405&oldid=1283570>.
I wonder whether this page should actually live under "Requests for
comment/" for now. I'll mull over moving the page.
It looks like both RFCs are still in discussion and neither RFC has been
accepted yet. I'm worried that others haven't been chiming in. I'm curious
what others think about these proposed approaches and we need people to
pick at them and poke holes and consider current and future use-cases.
Brion seems like he's eager to get back into the software architecture
game, so maybe he can weigh in if Tim and Roan and others are too busy
right now. The RFC page histories and talk pages are a bit bleak right
now. I'm concerned that we need to do a lot better about gathering input
in order to reach consensus about ideas like this.
One big pain point I'm seeing in skimming these RFCs and their talk pages
is that we're really bad about cross-referencing RFC discussions with the
RFCs themselves. I keep meaning to help out with this, but so much to do.
MZMcBride