Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-07-19

Guest Facilitator/Note-taker: Mikhail

= Topics from the past =
 * “Kevin plans to rearrange the team retrospectives to do one team per week”?
 * Katie has all the 1:1s now

= Announcements, Information, Questions =
 * RelEng announced that X-Wikimedia-Debug will be supported by SWAT (see GregG’s email)
 * HTTP Proxy header was disabled, causing some issue that we were late to detect ( https://httpoxy.org/ ). If you see strange things, think about that…
 * Weird bug that allows you to set a setting from the outside; MediaWiki is not affected in most configurations BUT could be
 * Change was rolled back because it was causing problems
 * We shouldn’t worry about it, apparently?
 * Daisy will be presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) on portal research during Research Showcase

= 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
 * None
 * “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
 * T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
 * First iteration done and deployed
 * Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
 * Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
 * Ops are OK with enabling Kartographer on small wikis

Discovery News

 * See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

= FYI =
 * Next Discovery team retrospectives: TBD (late July/early August)
 * Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled August 3
 * Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
 * Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)
 * Guillaume on vacation next week
 * Jan, Kevin and David on vacation this week
 * Dan, Yuri, Julien, Deb, Max, and Katie will be at State of the Map US Conference Saturday - Monday (traveling Friday and Tuesday)
 * Katherine, our ED, is keynoting the event
 * Stas in Seattle on Friday for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon