Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-05-07

Checkins
Nik: Max: Yuri: Stas: James: Dan: Moiz: Wes: Giuseppe:
 * Finished most of work on plugins w/help from James
 * Need to write release announcements at elastic forums
 * Blocked on filling out the phab sprint boards
 * (Answer was given right after this meeting)
 * Had productive discussion w/Ops to figure out next steps
 * Will get spare server “soon” for experimentation (unclear timeline)
 * Started setting up labs instance for demos (maybe ready tomorrow?)
 * Very happy w/ support from ops now
 * Ops hiring a dba who has worked with open street maps
 * New system will be easy to instrument
 * Graphs have launched!!!
 * On Monday we will have some clarity on when we can release 0.0.1
 * Release as sw package should be able to happen next week
 * Next week will have new WD ontology in production, so want to test that before release
 * Most issues have been resolved
 * Started working on highlighter release (maven)
 * Found a bunch of improvements we could make to the release process
 * Will look into a remote connector that can fall back to maven central
 * Lots of meetings
 * Will be working on event logging for desktop
 * Oliver is working on dashboards
 * Dan wants to be able to test on desktop to more easily see individual events
 * Will meet w/Wes and Dan about user-facing ideas
 * Putting together 2 job descriptions
 * Coordinating S&D Hackathon stuff
 * Re-shared Search and Discovery goals slide deck draft, for review
 * Appropriate parts will be pushed to wiki when ready
 * Nothing to report
 * Puppet stuff still on hold; eventually will be picked up by Nik or James or Stas

Workboard Walkthrough
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/
 * Not necessary yet; will probably become part of the agenda later

Scrum of Scrums

 * Are we blocked?
 * For tile server: Need 1 TB server, can be in labs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
 * Nothing else
 * Are we blocking?
 * No
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Info/To Discuss

 * Kevin will be out Monday May 11
 * James will fill in as meeting facilitator/notetaker
 * Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) Status https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96579
 * Search metrics results--Anything new?
 * Nope
 * Kevin plans to circulate draft process doc by tomorrow
 * Meetings status quo for now
 * Possibly change by next Thursday (May 14), depending on feedback to upcoming proposals from Kevin

FYI

 * Oliver presented initial results for homepage: http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html
 * Hackathon (May 23-25)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Search_and_discovery
 * Wikimania (July 15-19)
 * Review time has begun: **https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_2014_-_2015_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective