Most of my latest thinking on this subject is available here: T119593: Define the list of "must have" sessions for WikiDev '16

Also, your questions/reactions welcome to my lightning talk from yesterday: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#December_2015

Very raw notes from the ArchCom meeting just before this one:

• T119593#1900298
• Action: RobLa to retitle one of the sessions (the “non-technical mw session”)
• Action: RobLa to make more obvious: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119030
• Action: RobLa - making assignments clear for main track sessions
  • ask Quim about assignee for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114419
  • migration to Differential session assignee
  • infoboxes RFC
• Action: RobLa - fix double booking of T114072

Markdown tangent: https://secure.phabricator.com/T2849

3:24 PM <wm-labs-meetbot> Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-12-23-22.01.html
3:24 PM <wm-labs-meetbot> Minutes (text): https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-12-23-22.01.txt
3:24 PM <wm-labs-meetbot> Minutes (wiki): https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-12-23-22.01.wiki
3:24 PM <wm-labs-meetbot> Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-12-23-22.01.log.html

Meeting summary: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P2453

Most of this discussion was about T114419#1876179 (Ori's proposal to do away with code review). In particular, see 22:17 through 22:54 in https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-12-23-22.01.log.html