Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-04-23

Status

 * Nik
 * Spent time on reorg, job reqs.
 * Turned on checkstyle for java project, and adding javadocs to avoid warnings
 * Likely to focus on hiring, not code, for next few days
 * Stas
 * Worked on updating ontology for dumper and fixing small bugs. Mostly done.
 * Tested the updater. Found stability issues and a couple bugs. Mostly good. Needs to add a couple more bug tickets.
 * Noted that there are no tests for normalizer. Nik wouldn’t object to some being created.
 * James
 * Has been documenting how to interact with Blazegraph (e.g. SPARQL). Used old ontology so needs to be updated.
 * May convert some docs to tests. Stas will point him to existing tests (php).
 * Erik
 * Working on vagrant integration for cirrus search
 * Looking at solutions for tests that only sometimes pass
 * Max
 * Working on Maps. Some key components are not open source. Yuri is working the server for tile generation. Max is mostly working on postgis
 * Geo search is in Lucene, so not clear whether it could be used with Blazegraph.
 * Server hardware requirements are unclear. Nik needs some kind of guess; so he and Max will discuss.
 * Yuri
 * (silence)
 * Dan
 * Interested in dipping toes in technical stuff.
 * Kevin
 * Not sure if I will remain involved with this team or not...TBD this week
 * Nik and others would like me to stay on

Scrum of Scrums

 * Are we blocked?
 * No
 * Are we blocking?
 * No

To Discuss

 * New team
 * Erik created a ticket to create a Search Team mailing list
 * Erik created an irc channel: #wikimedia-search
 * For now, everyone can dump all tasks into the Search Team phab board
 * Kevin will move add Search Team project to Max’s geo tasks
 * Wikimedia-Search is up for deletion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96551
 * Kevin commented in phab, reiterating that this shouldn’t happen until we’re ready
 * Current work doesn’t align with new Search Team stated priorities
 * WikiGrok was original driver of WDQS, but it is on back burner due to WDQ limitations.
 * Wes: Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) makes sense. (Nik/Stas: No blockers preventing it.)
 * Dan will coordinate checking with WikiGrok
 * Need to set new goals, priorities. Create a short (couple-paragraph) story.
 * WDQS might contribute to improving relevancy of searches
 * Mobile team has already experimented with WD-driven info boxes in search results
 * WD team is building some “fetch a thing” features; We could pull in live data or even produce lists or graphs from WD.