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:
- HTML templating (26 votes): providing an abstraction layer for server-side or client-side HTML generation
- Configuration (15 votes): introducing an on-wiki method to configure MediaWiki settings
- Service-oriented architecture (15 votes): Changes to internal interfaces and the web API
- UI/UX styling (14 votes): various styling and UI improvements