Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-23

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Short week - Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
 * Analysis team hasn’t been sufficiently notified of changes to data-related backend stuff, leading to missing data on the dashboards.
 * Related to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117617 ?
 * Drafting a Discovery future RFC page - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/RFC
 * Deployment Freeze
 * We committed to do a deployment freeze on 1st/2nd December
 * This is because these days are the biggest days of the big fundraiser
 * We committed to do a deployment freeze from 21st December - 8th January
 * This is because of the holidays and the all staff on 7th/8th January
 * Answer on whether we need a bigger code freeze is inconclusive so far; Dan will inform team if the answer comes back that we do
 * Portal
 * Event logging went out
 * Need to wait until we have more data before we start drawing conclusions on what’s next
 * Quick survey
 * Hiring
 * Maps
 * geohack