Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-03

Topics from last week (which might not need attention)

• Front End Developer recruiting
  • Have interviewed one, with another scheduled. Might make an offer.
• Scrum of Scrums representative
  • Stas volunteered, and did a great job in his first week

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Starting work on next edition of presentation (several weeks from now)
• Starting Q2 goal discussions
• Wes: Nice job on the dashboard (showcasing KPI’s), and Trey's summary
• We identified the source of the “timestamp” zero results: Mobile apps
  • Ironic side note: That bug was committed by our own Dan

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • No
• Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
  • Not really SoS blockers, but cross-departmental dependencies
    • Ops Q1 goal multi-datacenter (we will assist upon request)
  • Not really SoS blockers, but cases where Discovery members are needed by other projects:
    • Charts security issue (Yuri, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
    • Wikipedia zero (Yuri is still assigned there part-time)
    • Transparency report (Moiz, following up on pre-reorg obligations)
• Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?
  • No

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospective: August 10
• Next Discovery showcase: August 17