Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-04-23
2015-04-23
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edit- Nik
- Spent time on reorg, job reqs.
- Turned on checkstyle for java project, and adding javadocs to avoid warnings
- Likely to focus on hiring, not code, for next few days
- Stas
- Worked on updating ontology for dumper and fixing small bugs. Mostly done.
- Tested the updater. Found stability issues and a couple bugs. Mostly good. Needs to add a couple more bug tickets.
- Noted that there are no tests for normalizer. Nik wouldn’t object to some being created.
- James
- Has been documenting how to interact with Blazegraph (e.g. SPARQL). Used old ontology so needs to be updated.
- May convert some docs to tests. Stas will point him to existing tests (php).
- Erik
- Working on vagrant integration for cirrus search
- Looking at solutions for tests that only sometimes pass
- Max
- Working on Maps. Some key components are not open source. Yuri is working the server for tile generation. Max is mostly working on postgis
- Geo search is in Lucene, so not clear whether it could be used with Blazegraph.
- Server hardware requirements are unclear. Nik needs some kind of guess; so he and Max will discuss.
- Yuri
- (silence)
- Dan
- Interested in dipping toes in technical stuff.
- Kevin
- Not sure if I will remain involved with this team or not...TBD this week
- Nik and others would like me to stay on
Scrum of Scrums
edit- Are we blocked?
- No
- Are we blocking?
- No
To Discuss
edit- New team
- Erik created a ticket to create a Search Team mailing list
- Erik created an irc channel: #wikimedia-search
- For now, everyone can dump all tasks into the Search Team phab board
- Kevin will move add Search Team project to Max’s geo tasks
- Wikimedia-Search is up for deletion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96551
- Kevin commented in phab, reiterating that this shouldn’t happen until we’re ready
- Current work doesn’t align with new Search Team stated priorities
- WikiGrok was original driver of WDQS, but it is on back burner due to WDQ limitations.
- Wes: Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) makes sense. (Nik/Stas: No blockers preventing it.)
- Dan will coordinate checking with WikiGrok
- Need to set new goals, priorities. Create a short (couple-paragraph) story.
- WDQS might contribute to improving relevancy of searches
- Mobile team has already experimented with WD-driven info boxes in search results
- WD team is building some “fetch a thing” features; We could pull in live data or even produce lists or graphs from WD.