Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-12-15
Topics from the past
edit- Running another portal A/B test this year?
- No. Data would be unreliable.
- Work toward January tests instead.
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- Hiring
- Ops person scheduled to start in Feb; hoping to have him drop in for All Hands
- Product mgr: Informal offer has been informally accepted (would start early Jan, so hopefully could attend all-hands)
- CL candidate advancing through the process
- Time off
- Update the team spreadsheet
- Keep your personal calendar updated
- Tomasz working w/Moiz+Abby to have a user interaction session while we’re together
- Moiz will provide updates
- High-level idea of getting together with other searchy people
- Ops might possibly free up extra servers for maps within the next month or two
- Android maps launch has increased traffic
- Q3 goals are up on the page. “Mostly final”. Still tweaking a bit as needed.
- If you haven’t already, add feedback to the Showcase etherpad
Scrum of Scrums
editAnything from SoS that we should be aware of?
Blocked
- Blocked on ops due to previously reported https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119541
Blocking
- Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
FYI
edit- Deployment freeze Dec 18 - Jan 8
- Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
- Next Discovery retrospective: Dec 28
- Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
- Dev Summit Jan 4-6
- All-hands Jan 7-8
- Discovery Summit Jan 11-12
- Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery): ???