Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-03-21

= Topics from the past =
 * Book your offsite/hackathon travel (see email)
 * Reminder: Daylight Saving Time (aka “summer time”) is in effect for 98% of the US, but not yet for Europe (March 26)...watch your calendar closely for shifting meetings

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * FYI: Movement strategy conversations (cycle 1) are running until April 15
 * [wikitech-l] Starting in April 2017, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers that do not implement ECMAScript 5 JavaScript (e.g. IE 9)
 * Question about booking hotel for hackathon/offsite
 * Just fill out the travel request; if you don’t need hotels before or after the events, you shouldn’t need to do anything special
 * Rosters/manifests haven’t been published yet; when they are, check to make sure your information is accurate
 * Question: Any updates from management about future of maps or potential Product re-org?
 * Maps future depends on annual planning process, so no decisions yet
 * Next step in re-org should be for Anna to post suggestions, ideas, proposals, etc. on wiki, and announce.
 * Question: Status of design position hiring?
 * We are interviewing candidates. No other news.

= Scrum of Scrums = Are we blocked? Are we blocking? Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)
 * None
 * None
 * Kartotherian (maps) and Node6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150354

Discovery News

 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update (if needed) = Discovery Roadmap FY2016/17: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ctlqdLA__0OxDuO7mJEIDLP-xt9a7E4jv4INMlZAHdQ

This status was last updated 2017-03-14. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

Preview of FY 2016-17 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q4_Goals#Discovery

FY 2016-17 Q3 (Jan-Mar) Key Results
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Discovery
 * Upgrading to Elasticsearch 5
 * Upgrade search cluster to Elasticsearch 5
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
 * Release started March 13 (should be done on March 20 or 21)
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503
 * Expected to follow 1-2 weeks after ES 5 update
 * Researching and deploying new language analysers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
 * Polish, Chinese, Ukrainian are done https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158202
 * Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
 * Polish is done; Chinese underway https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158203
 * Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
 * Deployment of Polish is expected after ES 5 release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158682
 * Cross-wiki searching
 * Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias
 * A/B/C test ended: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
 * A/B test currently running, will end March 24
 * Stabilize maps and graphs code base
 * Won’t necessarily end at the quarter boundary

= FYI =
 * Mar 26: Europe Daylight Saving Time starts
 * April 5: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * April 14: WMF Holiday(!)
 * May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)
 * May 19-21: Hackathon in Vienna (right after the offsite)
 * July?? TBD: Next All-Discovery retro
 * July 24-August 4: WMF staff encouraged to work remotely