Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-12-15

= Topics from the past =
 * Running another portal A/B test this year?
 * No. Data would be unreliable.
 * Work toward January tests instead.

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Hiring
 * Ops person scheduled to start in Feb; hoping to have him drop in for All Hands
 * Product mgr: Informal offer has been informally accepted (would start early Jan, so hopefully could attend all-hands)
 * CL candidate advancing through the process
 * Time off
 * Update the team spreadsheet
 * Keep your personal calendar updated
 * Tomasz working w/Moiz+Abby to have a user interaction session while we’re together
 * Moiz will provide updates
 * High-level idea of getting together with other searchy people
 * Ops might possibly free up extra servers for maps within the next month or two
 * Android maps launch has increased traffic
 * Q3 goals are up on the page. “Mostly final”. Still tweaking a bit as needed.
 * If you haven’t already, add feedback to the Showcase etherpad

=Scrum of Scrums= Anything from SoS that we should be aware of? Blocked Blocking
 * Blocked on ops due to previously reported https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119541
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= FYI =
 * Deployment freeze Dec 18 - Jan 8
 * Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Dec 28
 * Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
 * Dev Summit Jan 4-6
 * All-hands Jan 7-8
 * Discovery Summit Jan 11-12
 * Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery): ???
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase