Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-02

= Topics from the past =
 * Quick retro on combined showcase?
 * Done, and notes added to: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Worth flagging issues for the GCI?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner
 * Kevin to send email
 * We posted docs on portal improvement ticket (moving code to gerrit: T110070)
 * Ticket has been quiet since
 * Proposed next step: Plan the actual announcement
 * Remember that we promised to move all the portals, even though we won’t be working on them
 * Moiz will start IRC convo
 * Hiring:
 * Looking good on ops interviews
 * Product mgr has been posted
 * Relevance hiring is progressing
 * Wikidata meetings followup
 * Wikidata meetings will result in some new phab tasks
 * Should have debrief meeting(s). Tomasz will follow up on that
 * Labs quota issue has been resolved
 * Deployment freeze for some portion of December seems like a good idea
 * Other teams are freezing for an entire month
 * Let’s have a conversation on the mailing list (Tomasz will initiate)
 * Tomasz will be asking some folks for help putting together weekly updates for Wes (so he can put together a report to execs)

=Scrum of Scrums= Anything from SoS that we should be aware of? Blocked Blocking
 * (We don't think so, but Yuri wasn't here to report back)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114694 - waiting for scap3 deployment
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Nov 2
 * Holiday Nov 11 (a Wednesday)
 * Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading): Nov 16
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase
 * Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
 * Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
 * Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
 * Dev Summit Jan 4-6
 * All-hands Jan 7-8
 * Discovery Summit Jan 11-12