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/2017-01-18>.
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:
* 2 RFCs approved after final call: Deprecation Policy
([[Phab:T146965|T146965]]) and Content Model Storage ([[Phab:T105652|T105652]]).
* Multi-Content-Revisions (MCR, [[Phab:T107595|T107595]]) discussed at
DeveloperSummit. Sorted out details of the DB schema with Jaime.
* Ongoing discussion regarding distribution methods for MediaWiki and suppor for
3rd party installs.
** Related discussion about whether new features can require services serparate
from MediaWiki core.
* Thumbnail API is mostly stalled for now [[Phab:T66214|T66214]].
* Oldimage RFC ([[Phab:T589|T589]]) to go on final call this week.
** Decided to keep media type and mime type fields for now. Thy are small, and
now exposed via Cirrus Search; if we removed them from the table, they would
need to love somewhere else. Also they are enums, and thus small.
** Tentative plan to fold image revision management into MCR at some point, but
not until MCR is mature. Also, this schema change will make a later migration to
MCR much easier.
* ArchCom is considering changes to the RFC process. Discussion is ongoing. Key
points:
** More focus on discussion in Phabricator
** More leight weight process for “small” RFCs
** ArchCom to focus more on review, less ond process
** IRC meeting should not be the primary tool for discussing and approving RFCs
* Next week’s IRC discussion: [[Phab:T154738|T154738]] (Accessing page
properties from wiki pages). Related:
** T71441: Feature request: add detection for disambiguation pages to Scribunto
** T131911: Allow retrieving/getting page image file name from wikitext using
Scribunto/Lua or parser function or something
** T154346: Provide "wikitext" means of accessing arbitrary wiki page's
default
category sort key
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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.