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This session can be considered as 'backlog grooming'. The intent will be to report on current status, gather feature requests, identify blockers, prioritize tasks and realign everyone on where we are and where we are going, in order to make sure that individual developers can work efficiently and with direction.

But this work can start already now. There is no need to wait until January to get started.

Note that @TheDJ is currently doing some cleanup on the backlog board for the TMH extension project; discussion so far has been on specific bugs or in IRC. I'll wrangle up some priority issues to list out here (there's also a little overlap with Parsoid wanting cleaner markup for media)...

Big related/subissues to discuss:

• T64270 - Clean base HTML for video/audio content that can be Parsoid-friendly:
  • (we should probably be producing something consistently clean in both core MW parser and Parsoid, and do our transformations from there)
  • (if it's necessary to add info for derivative file details, we need to be able to consistently add or remove that data when going into/out of parsoid)

• T66214 - Predictable URLs for thumbnails and media derivatives:
  • (in this case we may continue to treat transcoded derivatives separately, but it'd be nice to have a more unified system)

Speaking of..
@brion we should really have a small talk on how we are gonna structure those 2 sessions.

@TheDJ, could you please add a link to the slides?

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