#wikimedia-office: RFC review feb 21 on HTML templating and Services & narrow interfaces

Meeting started by sumanah at 16:58:30 UTC. The full logs are available at https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.2014-02-21-16.58.log.html .

Meeting summary

<gwicke> HTML templating summary is at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/KnockoutProposal (sumanah, 16:58:36)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-02-21 (sumanah, 17:00:44)
also today we'll have very quick checkins on performance guidelines and architecture guidelines (sumanah, 17:02:13)
HTML templating (sumanah, 17:02:49)
- LINK: https://github.com/gwicke/TemplatePerf/blob/master/QuickTemplate/KnockoutExpression.js (gwicke, 17:08:42)
- Roan's concerned with the Knockout syntax being intimidating to people (sumanah, 17:13:36)
- brion likes separating the template from the data model (sumanah, 17:13:51)
- CSteipp is concerned about the syntax being intimidating, not Road :) (csteipp, 17:14:24)
- LINK: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/KnockoutProposal (milimetric, 17:18:20)
- LINK: https://github.com/Wikia/app/blob/dev/extensions/wikia/SpecialSignup/templates/Signup.php (OwynD_, 17:19:51)
- IDEA: <OwynD_> yeah, i think one good experiment would be to convert a really simple extension with both js and PHP components to using this system. (sumanah, 17:37:03)
- ACTION: mwalker <mwalker> sumanah, my action is to port the JS IR compiler / runtime to PHP (sumanah, 17:39:15)
- ACTION: mwalker Answer Nikerabbit's questions about RL integration (mwalker, 17:41:13)
- ACTION: seeing this in action in a specific use case (jgonera, 17:41:28)
- ACTION: gwicke or mwalker to demonstrate this in action in a specific use case ("this" being mwalker's port?) (sumanah, 17:43:13)

Services and narrow interfaces (sumanah, 17:45:18)
- LINK: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Services_and_narrow_interfaces (sumanah, 17:45:22)
- ACTION: sumanah to work on topic including "Channel is logged and publicly posted (DO NOT REMOVE THIS NOTE). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours" - talk with Tim L (sumanah, 17:47:21)
- LINK: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Services_and_narrow_interfaces - please do talk on the talkpage after this meeting :) -- hasn't been talked on since 3 January (sumanah, 17:51:34)
- AGREED: <brion> yes i def agree we should have a public repo that's easy to add to a debian or ubuntu system (sumanah, 17:52:37)
- LINK: http://mozilla.debian.net/ (paravoid, 17:54:55)
- PPA is a possibility; as is running a repo on releases.wikimedia.org. versioning still an issue to discuss (brion, 17:58:31)
- ACTION: notes to talk page... (brion, 17:59:13)
- next meeting, MaxSem to talk about inline diffs (sumanah, 17:59:46)

Meeting ended at 17:59:53 UTC.

Action items

mwalker <mwalker> sumanah, my action is to port the JS IR compiler / runtime to PHP
mwalker Answer Nikerabbit's questions about RL integration
seeing this in action in a specific use case
gwicke or mwalker to demonstrate this in action in a specific use case ("this" being mwalker's port?)
sumanah to work on topic including "Channel is logged and publicly posted (DO NOT REMOVE THIS NOTE). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours" - talk with Tim L
notes to talk page...

Action items, by person

gwicke
- gwicke or mwalker to demonstrate this in action in a specific use case ("this" being mwalker's port?)
mwalker
- mwalker <mwalker> sumanah, my action is to port the JS IR compiler / runtime to PHP
- mwalker Answer Nikerabbit's questions about RL integration
- gwicke or mwalker to demonstrate this in action in a specific use case ("this" being mwalker's port?)
Nikerabbit
- mwalker Answer Nikerabbit's questions about RL integration
sumanah
- mwalker <mwalker> sumanah, my action is to port the JS IR compiler / runtime to PHP
- sumanah to work on topic including "Channel is logged and publicly posted (DO NOT REMOVE THIS NOTE). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours" - talk with Tim L
**UNASSIGNED**
- seeing this in action in a specific use case
- notes to talk page...