Hi,
I am writing to give you a quick summary of which RFCs we are currently working on in the ArchCom. Each RFC has the name of its 'shepherd' listed next to it. A shepherd is responsible for working with the RFC author to move the RFC forward, publicize it, and represent it in the architecture committee.
Please have a look, and join the conversation on the RFCs that are of interest to you.
Gabriel
New RFCs:
T129435 RFC: drop support for running without mbstring https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129435 (Gabriel): New, very focused RFC by Max, discussion started.
Upcoming IRC sessions:
T124792 Service Locator for MediaWiki core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124792 (Daniel): Introduce a service locator (aka DI container) to allow code in mediaWiki core to make use of the Dependency Injection (DI) and Service Locator (SL) patterns.
Under discussion:
T108655 Standardise on how to access/register JavaScript interfaces https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108655 (Roan): Considering to split out contentious part (file-based require, or something like it; to support embedding libraries), move forward on less controversial part (basic module-name-based require infrastructure)
T18691 RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691 (Timo): Reworking proposal with designers & Volker
T124504 Transition WikiDev '16 working areas into working groups https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124504 (RobLa) Finding folks to fully assume ownership on following up from each session has been difficult
T128351 RfC: Notifications in core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128351 (Brion): Discussed last week, now clarifying interfaces & scope.
T66214 Use content hash based image / thumb URLs & define an official thumb API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214 (Brion): Discussion last & this week.
T118517 [RFC] Use <figure> for media https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517 (Brion): Revisit soon.
T124752 [RFC] Expiring watch list entries https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124752 (Daniel): Iterating on the design, discussion on the task.
T113034 RFC: Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034 (Daniel): Has been discussed before, needs somebody to actually take this on.
T114444 [RFC] Introduce notion of DOM scopes in wikitext https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114444 (Tim): Under discussion in the parsing team, early stage.