Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-04-30

2015-04-30

Checkins

Nik

• Wrote code for plugins to eliminate the need for dynamic scripting
• Now working on integrating cirrus
• Expect beta release probably tomorrow
• Scheduled elastic rolling restart next Tuesday

James

• Have been writing tests. No blockers.
• Fighting with how matchers work in test framework
• Working toward testing namespaces and journal bug

Erik

• Switching browser tests to go through the API (much faster)
• 400 tests through API
• Should mostly finish today, except “Go” feature, which will require changing API

Stas

• Worked on blazegraph, mimicking production conditions to see data corruption bug
• Fix at least allows db to proceed without breaking (ignore corruption)
• Now will identify and fix the real bug

Yuri/Max

• Yuri is In Moscow, working closely with Max
• Max: Data abstraction
• Yuri: Working on 2 parts: data -> tiles, tiles -> images
• Engaging local Russian community to explore collaboration or developer contributions
• Head of ru wikimedia is in the coffee shop with them during the checkin

Dan

• Created “freezer” phab project for more of a high-level/long-term backlog
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1218/

Kevin

• Team page will be created (updated) in wiki shortly, with some roles & responsibilities

Workboard Walkthrough

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • No
• Are we blocking?
  • No

Info/To Discuss

• How soon to schedule first retrospective? Length?
  • Kevin to schedule 1 hour “next week” (schedules permitting)
• Initial WDQS release (0.0.1)?
  • Waiting for changes to get merged. Probably deployed next week.
  • Monday after next, data dumps with new ontology will be available.
  • Have to update munge scripts and other minor changes, fix examples
  • Tentative target: Mid-May
• Have not resolved how to handle redirects, but won’t block 0.0.1
• Search metrics results?
• Need place in phab workboard to stash stories that are no longer relevant
  • Will discuss in separate process meetings
• FYI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Search_and_discovery