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 -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
