Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2015-11-02

Topics from the past

• Quick retro on combined showcase?
  • Done, and notes added to: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Worth flagging issues for the GCI?
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Mentors.27_corner
  • Kevin to send email
• We posted docs on portal improvement ticket (moving code to gerrit: T110070)
  • Ticket has been quiet since
  • Proposed next step: Plan the actual announcement
  • Remember that we promised to move all the portals, even though we won’t be working on them
  • Moiz will start IRC convo
• Hiring:
  • Looking good on ops interviews
  • Product mgr has been posted
  • Relevance hiring is progressing
• Wikidata meetings followup
  • Wikidata meetings will result in some new phab tasks
  • Should have debrief meeting(s). Tomasz will follow up on that
• Labs quota issue has been resolved
• Deployment freeze for some portion of December seems like a good idea
  • Other teams are freezing for an entire month
  • Let’s have a conversation on the mailing list (Tomasz will initiate)
• Tomasz will be asking some folks for help putting together weekly updates for Wes (so he can put together a report to execs)

Scrum of Scrums

Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

• (We don't think so, but Yuri wasn't here to report back)

Blocked

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114694 - waiting for scap3 deployment

Blocking

• Are we blocking? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

FYI

• Next Discovery retrospective: Nov 2
• Holiday Nov 11 (a Wednesday)
• Next Showcase (Discovery+Reading): Nov 16
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/rdshowcase
• Holiday Nov 26-27 (Thurs/Fri)
• Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
• Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
• Dev Summit Jan 4-6
• All-hands Jan 7-8
• Discovery Summit Jan 11-12