Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-10

Topics from last week (which might not need attention)

• Nothing

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Standups moved to SF morning
• Survey outcomes (postponed until next week)
• Should we have a weekly KPI update in this meeting? (Yes)
• Thoughts on Gerrit Cleanup Day
  • General support, with some skepticism of the benefits
• This coming Friday is a Q2 Goals session
• Wes will report back next week on the status of all the teams related to Q1 Goals
• Wes has put together a template for our interactions with other orgs (e.g. DuckDuckGo)
• Maps tile server is available in production
  • We are not announcing it publicly yet, pending further review

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • No
• Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
  • VE Bug caused by search results. Being worked on.
  • Not really SoS blockers, but 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)
• Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospective: August 10
• Next Discovery showcase: August 17