Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2017-02-14

= Topics from the past =
 * Annual planning is underway (The first draft is due by 22nd February)
 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZzTHJOrqxU7-guCvPmjJ8tgZf7eY8C-Gg1xp0JHFLoU
 * Registering for Hackathon is open
 * Assume Thursday arrival at Hackathon hotel (leaving the offsite hotel on Thursday)
 * Dan has let the affected people know how to arrange for visas
 * Everyone in Discovery is approved to go, so please register
 * Developer Wishlist voting now open
 * Why did Kevin re-animate the Experimentation Time discussion?
 * Unknown. Feel free to disregard.
 * Dan will be on vacation quite a bit over the next month

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Do people want to discuss Wes leaving?
 * If you have ideas for improving department structure, either pass them along to your manager (or Katie/Erika/Dan), or ask Katie ASAP to get invited to one of the upcoming "conversations"
 * It's likely we'll take advantage of this opportunity to make some tweaks; it is unlikely (but not impossible) that we will make radical changes
 * Any proposed changes will be shown to staff for review before they are decided; even after deciding, implementation could take months
 * FYI: Collab Jam next week
 * Engineers: Get feedback to Erika by this Thursday
 * Dan will schedule a meeting Friday w/Katie et al
 * FYI: CSV open data conference, Portland OR, May 2-3 https://csvconf.com/
 * From RelEng: “Expect to hear some noise about production log errors. We're going to start getting...strict...on this”
 * Firefox might lose support for hangouts at the end of this month

= Scrum of Scrums = Are we blocked? Are we blocking? ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/ ) 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
 * Kartotherian (maps) and Node6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150354
 * Progressing well
 * Multimedia: Discovery could maybe help with a schema change for img_media_type - adding 3D media type, supporting filetype:3D queries in CirrusSearch.
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336454
 * Not really anything we can do. It has already been reviewed.
 * None

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 2016-12-15. Completed/dropped goals are not shown.

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
 * Add real-time index updates to completion suggester
 * deploying new language analysers
 * Perform research spikes to find new analysers for different languages
 * Test new analysers to see if they are improvements
 * Deploy new analysers that are found to be an improvement
 * cross-wiki searching
 * Have a working prototype in Labs
 * Run at least 2 A/B tests on Persian, Italian, Catalan and Polish Wikipedias

= FYI =
 * Feb 20: Holiday
 * Mar 1: CREDIT showcase
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Mar 13: Next All-Discovery retro
 * May 14-18: Discovery offsite in Vienna (right before the hackathon)