Re: [Wikitech-l] Last Call: ArchCom/TechCom Charter

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

> This finally gives the committee a clear place in the
> "chain of command", and real authority over software
> development at the WMF, where it formerly had none.

This is a compelling argument, but why not call it Wikimedia Foundation 
Technical Committee then? It would also be easier to clarify that it's 
mostly/only meant for WMF staff and whoever else decides to submit to 
its process (this is already implied by phrases such as "developers or 
teams"), rather than for MediaWiki in general.


I think it's appropriate for the WMF to have some body to take care of 
technology beyond MediaWiki, think for instance 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange (still missing a contact 
point since Erik went, btw) and all the cases where disagreements over 
MediaWiki or Wikimedia practices have been worked around by using 
non-MediaWiki solutions.


I'm not sure it was necessary to give up on having a MediaWiki body in 
order to have a Wikimedia Foundation one, but probably two parallel 
systems would have been confusing. Hopefully at some point after this 
repurposing we will be able to afford integrating more third parties 
into the "central" development process and an actual MediaWiki 
governance will be useful/possible/needed (this was the core idea at the 
time of the Architecture summit 2014 etc., IMHO).


Ah, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/%2B2#Revocation at some point 
listed the WMF ~CTO and currently contains an unlikely "anyone 
authorized by Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees". Some updates 
might be in order.


Nemo

P.s.: Not commenting is not necessarily a choice. For instance, the talk 
page doesn't use wikitext and therefore creates selection bias for the 
discussion.


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[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2017-07-26 (was: ArchCom Radar)

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hi all!


First off - the Architecture Committee is now the Technical Committee!
We just adopted our first official charter, defining the scope and authority of
the committee. You can find it here:



Thanks for your patience and input!


With that out of the way - here are the minutes from this week's TechCom
meeting. You can also find the minutes at
.

See also the TechCom activity page at
 and the
RFC board .


Here are the minutes, for your convenience:

* TechCom (ne ArchCom) charter approved:
  

* Last Call: Migrate to HTML5 section ids
  .

  Should no pertinent objections remain unaddressed by August 9th, the RFC will
  be approved for implementation. The currently ongoing work on code should be
  considered a prototype until then. See
  

* Next week’s RFC: Combined contribs / talk pages for IPv6 ranges
  .

  As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel #wikimedia-office
  on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).

* Global Collaboration team is working on refactoring
  RecentChanges/Watchlist code

* Mobile team(s) working on a new content API
  


-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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