We have T111588: RFC: API-driven web front-end penciled in as the topic for this week's meeting. I'm available on IRC on #wikimedia-tech, which has been my default for RFC/ArchCom ad hoc discussions.

Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-11-18-22.01.html
Minutes (text): https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-11-18-22.01.txt
Minutes (wiki): https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-11-18-22.01.wiki
Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-11-18-22.01.log.html

Next week: E92: RFC Meeting on IRC 2015-11-25 22:00 UTC (T118932: Raise PHP version requirements)

• API-driven web front-end | RFC meeting | Wikimedia meetings channel | Please note: Channel is logged and publicly posted (DO NOT REMOVE THIS NOTE) | Logs: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/ (TimStarling, 22:01:22)
  • *LINK:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111588 (TimStarling, 22:02:46)
  • *LINK:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114057#1683608 would be a pretty easy win for less parser cache fragmentation (legoktm, 22:41:22)
  • <cscott> again, from my perspective, we could do this in a "traditional" way with client-side javascript as well, if service workers don't get adopted. or something else. the fundamental refactoring is worthwhile regardless. (ori, 22:41:55)
  • *LINK:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30424 I guess. (Marybelle, 22:42:45)
  • *LINK:* https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2015/nov/04/building-an-offline-page-for-theguardiancom (gwicke, 22:45:07)
  • Service workers and/or nodejs should not be required to use MediaWiki in general (bd808, 22:47:06)
  • <gwicke> there are several bits in [this proposal] that can be phased in independently, and without replacing everything at once (ori, 22:48:52)
  • *ACTION:* prototyping work in reading and services will continue until the dev summit (gwicke, 22:51:52)
  • One question we are currently looking into is first page load, with main contenders being sectioned loading vs. HTML streaming & deferred image loading. (gwicke, 22:54:46)