The Signpost

Technology report

Gearing up for the Architecture Summit

MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit. The first architecture meeting was during the Amsterdam Hackathon, and discussed the Architecture guidelines document and parts of the MediaWiki codebase. Further meetings were held at Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong and at the WMF Engineering's All-Hands meeting; there were also bi-weekly meetings on IRC to review various requests for comments.

For the summit, RfCs have been split into clusters to facilitate discussion. Developers are now voting in a straw poll on what they are interested in concerning the creation of the program. As of writing, the categories with the most votes are:

In brief

Not all fixes may have gone live to WMF sites at the time of writing; some may not be scheduled to go live for several weeks.


















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