Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-03-15

= Topics from the past =
 * Annual planning (submitted to finance on Friday Mar 4)
 * We will get feedback this week
 * Early feedback about the numbers is positive;
 * Work on narrative this Wed/Thurs
 * Final deadline is March 31
 * Q4 goals (draft was due on Friday Mar 4)
 * Nothing has changed. We still have 7 goals, but need to cut down search goals.
 * Dan will work w/Erik and then others as needed
 * Worth spending more effort on documentation (e.g. TextCat)?
 * Should we have a semi-formal policy about the importance of documentation?
 * Concerns about over-documenting (e.g. not agile)
 * Move the conversation to email
 * Dan is willing to prioritize phab tasks to write docs on specific topics
 * Chris can alert if we are answering the same question multiple times (feature-level)
 * Multiple audiences (onboarding new staff, end-users on Wikimedia sites, end users on third party sites, other devs)
 * QuickSurvey:
 * Some remaining questions regarding privacy policy (Dan will check w/Leila)
 * Then we can submit a patch to get reviewed and deployed
 * Need to create messages in the mw namespace, so might need to limit one one (or few) wiki.
 * This is lower priority than some other work right now

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Team retrospectives have been scheduled (this week and next)
 * Julien will be working with the Maps team through the end of this quarter
 * Reminder: Submit items for the Discovery status updates
 * Portal dashboard has not yet shown increase in searching which we were expecting; too early to tell

= Scrum of Scrums = NOTE: Stas and Yuri were missing for this part, so some might be out of date

Blocked Blocking
 * Stas and Yuri will talk to ops about SPARQL query caching (?)
 * Discussed; found bug which ops will fix
 * Open question about how long cache should live
 * SVG sanitizer security review (graphs) (?)
 * Maps hardware
 * We think this may have to wait until after elastic hardware
 * Tomasz will follow up with Mark
 * Elastic hardware
 * Awaiting ops (Mark’s) approval
 * Are we blocking?   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) =

Q3 goals (excluding those that are done):

 * Completion suggester: Roll out to full production: Plans being worked out
 * Review ES configuration: In progress
 * “Done enough” but will keep doing
 * Quick survey for search results: At risk
 * Portal: Run 3 A/B tests: At risk (we ran an a/b/c test and expect to run one more)
 * Maps: Wikivoyage in all languages: Deployed but adoption of German and Dutch is blocked on community

Q4 goals

 * draft is up: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q4_Goals#Discovery

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Team retrospectives spread over the next couple weeks
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): April 6
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT