Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-31

Topics from last week

 * Debrief from “social” event last Monday
 * Was unstructured. Some work-relevant discussions. Some non-relevant but community-building discussions.
 * Trey had a chance to meet some people he wouldn’t otherwise
 * Goal was to get people talking across dept/team boundaries, so it was a success
 * We will be doing more of them in the future

Announcements, Information, Questions

 * Next Monday (Sept 7) is a US holiday (IT/office support will be off)
 * No action needed if you plan to take it off
 * If you want to float the holiday to a different day, let ADP and your manager know
 * Offsite is just over 4 weeks away
 * Dates are locked in (Sept 30-Oct 2. Venue is being finalized.
 * Should be able to start booking travel this week.
 * 3 days (each one half workshop, half workday)
 * Should team members be doing any prep? Nope, just bring yourself, your laptop, and your cheerful attitude.
 * Can extend the trip on your own time (coordinate with your manager)
 * Managers had an "offsite" last week
 * Probably will move toward committing to having an annual roadmap for the whole org
 * Wes will share details next week or at offsite
 * Dan presented on zero results last week. Went well.
 * When will we announce WDQS?
 * Dan is coordinating with communications

Scrum of Scrums

 * Are we blocked?
 * Ops: Monitoring on WDQS (only bring up if no progress before SoS)
 * Security: Eagerly awaiting Kafka security review (which is scheduled for this week)
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
 * Our patch has been rejected by the keepers of the API
 * No clear path forward
 * Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
(How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)
 * Deploy Maps to Production
 * Deploy WDQS to Production
 * Reducing Zero results
 * “Phrase slop” test finished
 * High priority to get the next test (suggester) rolled out
 * Goal has a “Yellow” status
 * We should start having conversations about shifting or framing the goal
 * Defining Satisfaction metric
 * Measuring API usage
 * Completed.
 * Measuring API usage
 * Completed.
 * Completed.

FYI

 * Next Discovery retrospective: Sept 14
 * Next Discovery showcase: Sept 21
 * Gerrit cleanup day (Wed Sept 23)
 * Offsite Sept 30 (details TBA)