Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-08-31

Topics from last week

Debrief from “social” event last Monday
- Was unstructured. Some work-relevant discussions. Some non-relevant but community-building discussions.
- Trey had a chance to meet some people he wouldn’t otherwise
- Goal was to get people talking across dept/team boundaries, so it was a success
- We will be doing more of them in the future

Next Monday (Sept 7) is a US holiday (IT/office support will be off)
- No action needed if you plan to take it off
- If you want to float the holiday to a different day, let ADP and your manager know
Offsite is just over 4 weeks away
- Dates are locked in (Sept 30-Oct 2. Venue is being finalized.
- Should be able to start booking travel this week.
- 3 days (each one half workshop, half workday)
- Should team members be doing any prep? Nope, just bring yourself, your laptop, and your cheerful attitude.
- Can extend the trip on your own time (coordinate with your manager)
Managers had an "offsite" last week
- Probably will move toward committing to having an annual roadmap for the whole org
- Wes will share details next week or at offsite
Dan presented on zero results last week. Went well.
When will we announce WDQS?
- Dan is coordinating with communications

Are we blocked?
- Ops: Monitoring on WDQS (only bring up if no progress before SoS)
- Security: Eagerly awaiting Kafka security review (which is scheduled for this week)
Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- VE Bug caused by search results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796)
  - Our patch has been rejected by the keepers of the API
  - No clear path forward
Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

(How are we doing; any current or imminent work to improve them)

Deploy Maps to Production
Deploy WDQS to Production
Reducing Zero results
- “Phrase slop” test finished
- High priority to get the next test (suggester) rolled out
- Goal has a “Yellow” status
- We should start having conversations about shifting or framing the goal
Defining Satisfaction metric
Measuring API usage
- Completed.