Wikimedia Discovery/Checkin meeting minutes/2016-01-12

Welcome new folks!

• Deb T (who started last week)
• Guillaume L (who will start Feb 1)

Topics from the past

• DevSummit/All-Hands/Discovery Days
• Plan to re-run portal test the week of devsummit/allhands (we’re not blocked)
  • Scheduled to go out this afternoon
• Dan will follow up on the logging change on the 8th that affected our dashboard graphs
  • Taken care of

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Pilot(s) to move from gerrit (or github) to phabricator/differential/arcanist?
  • Dashboards? Maps?
• This afternoon: User research meetings. Asking people how they use wikimedia, and more generally how they find information on the internet.
• Team dinner 6pm reservation
• Great to have everyone here in person
• New data center status?
  • Ops wants to switch all data to Dallas as a test
  • Our cluster is having issues. But should be OK.
  • We need to do load testing; once it has proved it should work, we should be done
• Thanks for weighing on on attending 2016 wikimania/hackathon. Tomasz will follow up.
• Kartographer is going to get a security review

Scrum of Scrums

Anything from SoS that we should be aware of?

• (no)

Blocked

• (none)

Blocking

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

Quick Quarterly Goals/KPI Update

• Quarterly review coming up. Help Dan as needed.
• If you're not familiar with our new quarterly goals, take a look:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q3_Goals#Discovery

FYI

• Holiday Monday Jan 18
• Next Showcase (Reading+Editing+Discovery): Tuesday Jan 19 (at 9am PST!!)
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/showcase
• Next Discovery retrospective: Monday Jan 25