Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting Minutes/2015-04-20

2015-04-20

Status

• Nik
  • Tried out inflation mode for inline URI’s. Wrote docs. Savings beyond 15% is harder than expected.
  • Need to spend some time on stuff related to the about-to-be reworked team
• Stas
  • At a conference
  • Looking at redirect handling
• James
  • Changes up for review:
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/204669/
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/203154/
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/205292/
  • ✭NSYNC bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95849
  • Query docs: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/205292/
• Giuseppe
  • Puppet work is sort of on hold unless/until it becomes a blocker
  • How to build a distributable package: https://github.com/wikimedia/wikidata-query-rdf/tree/master/dist
• Jan
  • Date stuff will require more conversations

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • Nothing worth raising
• Are we blocking?
  • Nothing that we know of

To Discuss

• Release 0.0.1 to Maven Central (Nik will do it)
• Make it installable in/with vagrant, or with puppet/labs (both are useful)? Docker image?
  • Consider putting nginx in front to limit to readonly (block posts or via other filters)
  • Consider bundling a snapshot of the data (Blazegraph’s .jnl file) so people can experiment without pulling from RDF
• Wikimedia-Search is up for deletion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96551
  • Projects in Phab should not change until later this week (at the earliest)