Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-02-09

= Topics from the past =
 * Third week running wmf.10 due to issues deploying session handling changes. Code written in the last few weeks is likely still not deployed due to these issues.
 * Just an FYI reminder. They have a plan.

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * There was a request for lightning talks on any of the following topics:
 * Relevance of intra-wiki search
 * Models for user satisfaction with search
 * Wikipedia.or portal improvements
 * OSM tiling
 * WDQS
 * Monday Feb 15 is a holiday (let your manager and ADP know if you plan to work that day)
 * Annual planning: Next is deadline March 4. Get comments to Dan.
 * Thank you for getting expense reports in. Tomasz will start approving hackathon travel this week
 * We're having some interesting discussions with reading that may increase our search traffic
 * Erik and Tomasz will be at ElasticON next week
 * Ops is discussing maps hardware budgets
 * Discovery Retrospective(s)
 * Kevin posted a proposal to split it into smaller team-based retrospectives
 * Discussion is happening in email; thanks for input; please participate
 * Next showcase still being planned; might include Community Tech
 * Report from Gather meeting: Tentatively leaning toward making it private, but not final

=Scrum of Scrums=
 * Android: New beta coming soon, which includes A/B testing for CirrusSearch (T125393).

Blocked (NOTE: We accidentally skipped this section, so this information could be obsolete) Blocking
 * Security is reviewing textcat
 * Security reviewed kartatherian; found issues; working on fixing
 * w/Reading: Morelike needs A/B testing (moving forward)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124258
 * Quicksurvey
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospective: TBD
 * Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery?): ???
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/showcase