Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-01-12

=Welcome new folks!=
 * Deb T (who started last week)
 * Guillaume L (who will start Feb 1)

= Topics from the past =
 * DevSummit/All-Hands/Discovery Days
 * Plan to re-run portal test the week of devsummit/allhands (we’re not blocked)
 * Scheduled to go out this afternoon
 * Dan will follow up on the logging change on the 8th that affected our dashboard graphs
 * Taken care of

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * Pilot(s) to move from gerrit (or github) to phabricator/differential/arcanist?
 * Dashboards? Maps?
 * This afternoon: User research meetings. Asking people how they use wikimedia, and more generally how they find information on the internet.
 * Team dinner 6pm reservation
 * Great to have everyone here in person
 * New data center status?
 * Ops wants to switch all data to Dallas as a test
 * Our cluster is having issues. But should be OK.
 * We need to do load testing; once it has proved it should work, we should be done
 * Thanks for weighing on on attending 2016 wikimania/hackathon. Tomasz will follow up.
 * Kartographer is going to get a security review

=Scrum of Scrums= Anything from SoS that we should be aware of? Blocked Blocking
 * (no)
 * (none)
 * Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

= Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update =
 * Quarterly review coming up. Help Dan as needed.
 * If you're not familiar with our new quarterly goals, take a look:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q3_Goals#Discovery

= FYI =
 * Holiday Monday Jan 18
 * Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery): Tuesday Jan 19 (at 9am PST!!)
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/showcase
 * Next Discovery retrospective: Monday Jan 25