Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-04-26

Topics from the past

• Anything to discuss for Moiz transition?
  • Progress underway to backfill the position
• Anything to discuss from the data center switchover?
  • All quiet. Congrats to ops!
• Annual reviews! (Just a reminder)

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Varnish servers for maps are being set up
• Next Portal A/B test should be released soon
• State of the Maps conference in July; some team members might go
• Planning for possible search team offsite this quarter
• Kevin and Deb will be at the Reading offsite next week (May 2-6)
  • Kevin will be out all week
• Half of last week's team retrospective notes have been posted. Kevin hopes to have the rest up within a day or so.

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

• By Security: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426 (json schema, to help with maps

Dependences which don’t need to be called out as “blocked”

• (none)

Blocking

• Are we blocking?  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Discovery News

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

FYI

• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled May 12 (Thursday)
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• Next Discovery retrospectives: TBD late May