Guest Facilitator/Note-taker: Mikhail

Topics from the past

Announcements, Information, Questions

RelEng announced that X-Wikimedia-Debug will be supported by SWAT (see GregG’s email)
HTTP Proxy header was disabled, causing some issue that we were late to detect (https://httpoxy.org/). If you see strange things, think about that…
- Weird bug that allows you to set a setting from the outside; MediaWiki is not affected in most configurations BUT could be
- Change was rolled back because it was causing problems
- We shouldn’t worry about it, apparently?
Daisy will be presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) on portal research during Research Showcase

Are we blocked?

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

Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)

“Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
- First iteration done and deployed
- Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
- Ops are OK with enabling Kartographer on small wikis

Next Discovery team retrospectives: TBD (late July/early August)
Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled August 3
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)
Guillaume on vacation next week
Jan, Kevin and David on vacation this week
Dan, Yuri, Julien, Deb, Max, and Katie will be at State of the Map US Conference Saturday - Monday (traveling Friday and Tuesday)
- Katherine, our ED, is keynoting the event
Stas in Seattle on Friday for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon