Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-17
Topics from last week (which might not need attention)
edit- Survey outcomes
- Postponed to next week since Moiz isn't here
- Wes: Q1 Goals update
- Monthly checkin to create a single summary of status; built from wiki pages
- Wes showed us some slides from other teams, which are not shareable at this point
- Quick recap of Q2 Goals session?
- Wes appreciates everyone's participation; Dan will follow up
- Need a substitute for this week’s Scrum of Scrums
- Erik volunteered
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Discvoery Showcase happens less than an hour from now
- To present, please sign up in the etherpad if you haven't already
- Maps is public!
- Any code that accesses maps must come from wmflabs
- WDQS doesn't need that same restriction, as long as it remains just test traffic
- Currently has no caching, including static files (Stas to follow-up offline)
- Dan and Wes have worked on a one-year high-level roadmap; will share at offsite
- We have hired a front end engineer!
- Start date has not been set yet
Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update
edit(How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)
- This Thursday, we’ll start testing “phrase slop”
- Will run for a week; smaller samples should make for easier analysis
- Mikhail is testing logs format for upcoming A/B test
- Someone needs to poke otto regarding deployment (?)
- The next test after that should be a non-config change (suggester)
- Solidifying user satisfaction metrics keeps getting delayed; will be a bottleneck
- Blocking work for Lila has been finished, so Oliver will focus on user satisfaction
Scrum of Scrums
edit- Are we blocked?
- No
- Thanks very much to ops, security, and legal for their recent help with both Maps and WDQS!
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- VE Bug caused by search results.
- Patch pending, was waiting for Brad’s return; we will try to expedite
- VE Bug caused by search results.
- Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
- Nope
- Not for SoS, but we have other 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)
FYI
edit- Smart Data Conference 2015: August 18-20 in San Jose, CA.
- Next Discovery showcase: TODAY!
- Next Discovery retrospective: Sept 14
- Offsite Sept 30 (details TBA)
- Gerrit cleanup day not yet scheduled