Topics from the past

Running another portal A/B test this year?
- No. Data would be unreliable.
- Work toward January tests instead.

Announcements, Information, Questions

Hiring
- Ops person scheduled to start in Feb; hoping to have him drop in for All Hands
- Product mgr: Informal offer has been informally accepted (would start early Jan, so hopefully could attend all-hands)
- CL candidate advancing through the process
Time off
- Update the team spreadsheet
- Keep your personal calendar updated
Tomasz working w/Moiz+Abby to have a user interaction session while we’re together
- Moiz will provide updates
High-level idea of getting together with other searchy people
Ops might possibly free up extra servers for maps within the next month or two
Android maps launch has increased traffic
Q3 goals are up on the page. “Mostly final”. Still tweaking a bit as needed.
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Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

Blocked

Blocked on ops due to previously reported https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119541

Blocking

Deployment freeze Dec 18 - Jan 8
Holiday Dec 25 (Friday)
Next Discovery retrospective: Dec 28
Holiday Jan 1 (Friday)
Dev Summit Jan 4-6
All-hands Jan 7-8
Discovery Summit Jan 11-12
Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery): ???
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