Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-05-04
2015-05-04
editCheckins
edit- Erik:
- Mostly finished testing. Now elastic search tests only take 5-6 minutes
- Still working on intermittent failures
- Initially non-voting, but hopefully eventually voting (to automatically reject patches)
- Not sure what comes after that--will talk to Nik
- Max
- Worked w/Yuri, got tile server to work; it displays maps
- This week: Get server/datasource to “mostly work”
- Then work on proof of concept using maps (probably initially a user script on wp)
- Stas
- Mostly working on bugs/stability on WD export, and import into core engine
- New ontology patches finally landing on test, so updating importer to be compatible
- New ontology will land this Wednesday (or next Wednesday)
- Yuri
- Worked w/Max to get tile server working. Will demo something soon.
- Now working on javascript service and extra features to make something user-visible
- Dan
- Diving into data. 4% of page views to all of our sites go to wp.org.
- Search metrics: bug fixed, but otherwise no progress
- Tomasz
- This is the first week fully available to this team
- Working on hiring, metrics
- Hoping to present early data findings within about 3 weeks
- Guiseppe
- Waiting for Nik on puppetization
- Moiz
- Working on hiring
- Needs to deep dive on Oliver’s data, looking at what we should do on front page
- Will create resource guide for team (style gudes, etc)
- Meeting w/Dan and Wes about possible early user-facing work
- Wes
- Reminder: Annual reviews
- Added slide to deck regarding privacy stats
- Nik worked on budget stuff for hardware
- Kevin
- Meetings regarding process
- Scheduled retrospective
Workboard Walkthrough
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- Not necessary yet; will probably become part of the agenda later
Scrum of Scrums
edit- Are we blocked?
- For tile server: Need 1 TB server, can be in labs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
- Are we blocking?
Info/To Discuss
edit- Kevin will be out Monday May 11
- Will arrange for someone to facilitate the Monday checkin
- Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) Status https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96579
- Tentative target was “Mid-May”, but might slip toward late May
- Hope to be through most of the bugs this week
- Need to define success of the release
- Dan: We need some kind of metrics instrumentation
- Kevin will create new task to just release the software: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98037
- Others will add blocking tasks so we can create a solid plan
- Search metrics results--Anything new?
- Oliver presented initial results for homepage: http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html
- Hackathon (May 23-25)
- Review time has begun: