Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-06-08

2015-06-08

Should we have discussions before checkins, since true detailed checkins should now be happening during standups?

• Yes, and let’s drop checkins

Info/To Discuss

• Welcome David!
• Yuri and Max are attending State of the Map conference
  • It is very helpful. One of the best conferences Yuri has attended
  • Still blocked on ops:
    • Ops allocated space on a shared machine; they expected dedicated hardware
    • Giuseppe is already working on this to sort through the misunderstanding(s)
  • Maps seem highly desired by the community, so is our (minimal) budget appropriate?
    • Wes has scheduled a follow-up meeting on Wednesday
• Are we officially the “Discovery Department” now?
  • YES
• Reminder: June 15 Showcase
  • If there is anything you can show off, get yourself on the agenda: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DiscoveryShowcaseAgenda
• Reminder: June 16 Retrospective
  • How should we reschedule sprint planning (which got clobbered by retro), since Nik will be out?
    • Make them earlier
    • Kevin will follow up via Email/IRC (UPDATE: They have been rescheduled, and Erik will stand in for Nik)
• Topics from last week
  • Update on metrics requirements?
    • api data collection is set up
    • need checkin meeting before presentation (Tomasz will set it up)
    • there were requests from other verticals for help with data analysis, but we’re pushing back
  • Elastic and kibana: see email thread
• Search Feedback survey (from Moiz)
  • phab ticket (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98066) has presentation deck
  • Propose link on search results and disambig that takes user to a survey
  • Moiz will set up mtg w/Oliver about how to capture and store feedback
  • and will continue to talk with Dan (who has already given some feedback)
• James is blocked
  • Somebody needs to code review my changes for Wikipedia Portal event logging (javascript)
    • https://github.com/earldouglas/www.wikipedia.org/pull/1
    • Tomasz has already contacted Adam Baso to see who can review. Kevin will follow up. (UPDATE: The code has gotten some review, so work is ongoing.)

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • Ops for maps stuff, but Giuseppe is on it
  • Code review for portal page, which KS will coordinate
• Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
  • No
• Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

FYI

• Kevin is giving Kanban tech talk June 15 (which will be recorded)
• Wikimania (July 15-19)
  • (need to insert relevant team page here)