Re: [Wikitech-l] 2016W33 ArchCom-RFC meeting: Revisiting Content model storage

2016-08-16 Thread Daniel Kinzler 
To add some context to what Robla wrote:

More than a year ago, Kunal's proposal to make the database storage of content
model and format more efficient was approved, but it was never implemented (the
original T105652).

I am concerned that the proposed solution would interfere with the
implementation of Multi-Content-Revisions (T107595). I therefore propose a
somewhat slightly way to solve the content model storage issue, which would at
the same time move us towards mutli-content-revisions, described in T142980.

The goal of Wednesday's IRC session is to decide to either go ahead with the
original proposal or with the modified version (or start over). Either way, I
hope we can get this moving again.

-- daniel


-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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[Wikitech-l] 2016W33 ArchCom-RFC meeting: Revisiting Content model storage

2016-08-15 Thread Rob Lanphier 
Hi everyone,

For this week's office hour, we'll be revisiting the 2015 proposal to
change content model storage[1] (see also T105652).  The RFC describes
the problems it is solving:

> * The content model and format of a revision is stored as NULL if it
>is the default. This makes changing the default problematic[...]
> * content model and content format are stored as strings
>("wikitext" and "text/x-wiki" respectively) which is inefficient from
>a storage point of view

It then describes some schema changes which hopefully address the problems.

The idea was approved, but was never implemented.  Daniel is now
interested in moving this forward to unblock Multi-Content
Revisions[2] (which relies on this).

The discussion is scheduled for 2016-08-17 UTC:
Time: Wednesday 21 UTC (2pm PDT, 23 CEST)
Place: #wikimedia-office
Phab event: [E261][3]

Rob
p.s. ArchCom status updates continue on [ArchCom/Status][4]

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