Hi all!
I thought I'd resume the practice of sending a summary of the Architecture
Committee meeting to this list.
The minutes of Wedensday's meeting can be fond at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-11-23>.
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:
* ArchCom soon to meet Victoria (perhaps Dec 7)
* Robla resigns from ArchCom in the wake of leaving WMF. Daniel is doing the
chairing for now.
* Ongoing activity:
** Brion: mobile video
** Gabriel: thumbnail API (Gabriel), ServiceWorkers for the discovery portal
** Tim: replacing tidy
** Timo: oldime table refactoring
** Daniel: experimenting with the Interwiki overhaul, thinking about db schema
optimization
* Talking with Faidon about ArchCom scope, progess, and impact. Some key points
that came up:
** ArchCom should be more arcive in providing visions and guideleines, such as
high level architecture documents.
** ArchCom should be involved in more of the ongoing developemnt at WMF. People
tend to ask ArchCom only if they have to.
** ArchCom should not only get active when asked. ArchCom scruteny should not be
limited to RFC discussions.
** For RFC discussions, we too often focus on easy-to-decide topics with limited
impact
** Lack of ops perspective in ArchCom
** A clearer scope / charter would be helpful
** Role of ArchCom needs to be discussed with our new CTO
** ArchCom has no clear connection to WMF org chart, and no power in resourcing.
Platforms (mostly MediaWiki itself) are not well represented in the org chart.
* Up for next week’s IRC discussion: ''Per-language URLs for multilingual wiki
pages'' (T114662).
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.