Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-17

Topics from last week (which might not need attention)

 * Survey outcomes
 * Postponed to next week since Moiz isn't here
 * Wes: Q1 Goals update
 * Monthly checkin to create a single summary of status; built from wiki pages
 * Wes showed us some slides from other teams, which are not shareable at this point
 * Quick recap of Q2 Goals session?
 * Wes appreciates everyone's participation; Dan will follow up
 * Need a substitute for this week’s Scrum of Scrums
 * Erik volunteered

Announcements, Information, Questions

 * Discvoery Showcase happens less than an hour from now
 * To present, please sign up in the etherpad if you haven't already
 * Maps is public!
 * Any code that accesses maps must come from wmflabs
 * WDQS doesn't need that same restriction, as long as it remains just test traffic
 * Currently has no caching, including static files (Stas to follow-up offline)
 * Dan and Wes have worked on a one-year high-level roadmap; will share at offsite
 * We have hired a front end engineer!
 * Start date has not been set yet

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
(How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)
 * This Thursday, we’ll start testing “phrase slop”
 * Will run for a week; smaller samples should make for easier analysis
 * Mikhail is testing logs format for upcoming A/B test
 * Someone needs to poke otto regarding deployment (?)
 * The next test after that should be a non-config change (suggester)
 * Solidifying user satisfaction metrics keeps getting delayed; will be a bottleneck
 * Blocking work for Lila has been finished, so Oliver will focus on user satisfaction

Scrum of Scrums

 * Are we blocked?
 * No
 * Thanks very much to ops, security, and legal for their recent help with both Maps and WDQS!
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * VE Bug caused by search results.
 * Patch pending, was waiting for Brad’s return; we will try to expedite
 * Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
 * Nope


 * Not for SoS, but we have other cross-departmental dependencies
 * Ops Q1 goal multi-datacenter (we will assist upon request)
 * Not really SoS blockers, but cases where Discovery members are needed by other projects:
 * Charts security issue (Yuri, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
 * Wikipedia zero (Yuri is still assigned there part-time)
 * Transparency report (Moiz, following up on pre-reorg obligations)

FYI

 * Smart Data Conference 2015: August 18-20 in San Jose, CA.
 * Stas will present
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bRLghUhxD0iMrNg2LKAGaFn9EGhkyVWmkoTBISM9mSY/edit
 * Next Discovery showcase: TODAY!
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Sept 14
 * Offsite Sept 30 (details TBA)
 * Gerrit cleanup day not yet scheduled