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/2017-01-25>.
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:
* Gabriel is considering use cases for storage of HTML for old revision:
mw:Wikimedia_Services/Revision_storage_for_HTML_and_structured_data:_Use_cases
* Continuing meta-discussion about ArchCom, touching on the following topics:
** Encouraging more RFC discussion on Phabricator
** Using IRC meetings as a broader office hour
** ArchCom’s involvement with strategy making and resource planning
At the IRC meeting, we discussed MZMcBride’s proposal for Accessing page
properties from wiki pages. We explored use cases, identified potential issues
and formulated requirements. A summary can be found at T154738#2972889.
Active RFCs, please have a look:
* T66214: Define an official thumb API. Effort to define a client-controlled API
for retrieving thumbnails with various options.
* T128351: Notifications in core.
* T124752: Expiring watchlist entries.
* T145604: Future of magic links.
Last Call:
[RFC] Image and oldimage tables
Please review the updated RFC page
<mw:Requests_for_comment/image_and_oldimage_tables> and send any final comments
here on Wikitech-l or comment on T589 by 2017-02-01.
Next week on IRC:
Discuss the planned schema changes for DB realignment & MCR (pending
confirmation from Brion). See:
* mw:Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Scaling_the_Wikimedia_database_schema
* mw:User:Brion_VIBBER/Compacting_the_revision_table
* mw:Multi-Content_Revisions/Content_Meta-Data#Database_Schema
* mw:Requests_for_comment/Content_model_storage
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Show replies by date