Discovery/Status updates/2017-06-19

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2017-06-19

==Highlights== Highlights
 * Mikhail sent out an email describing the cool new backend update that all the dashboards got - from Vagrant to Puppet

==Discussions== Discussions
 * A letter from some of the attendees of Iberoconf 2017 detailing requests to the Foundation for more and better communications and translations.
 * The Analysis team started discussing about adding continuous integration configuration to all wikimedia/discovery analytics repositories

Search

 * Erik did a lot of intensive research evaluating the libraries for machine learning ranking with LambdaRank and settled on xgboost running over yarn
 * We are having a lively discussion about how best to utilize the Kuromoji Japanese language analyzer

Analysis

 * We've updated the dashboards with proper licensing (since it's all open source) so that anyone can use it and / or borrow the code to fix an issue they have

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