Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-04-30
2015-04-30
[edit]Checkins
[edit]Nik
- Wrote code for plugins to eliminate the need for dynamic scripting
- Now working on integrating cirrus
- Expect beta release probably tomorrow
- Scheduled elastic rolling restart next Tuesday
James
- Have been writing tests. No blockers.
- Fighting with how matchers work in test framework
- Working toward testing namespaces and journal bug
Erik
- Switching browser tests to go through the API (much faster)
- 400 tests through API
- Should mostly finish today, except “Go” feature, which will require changing API
Stas
- Worked on blazegraph, mimicking production conditions to see data corruption bug
- Fix at least allows db to proceed without breaking (ignore corruption)
- Now will identify and fix the real bug
Yuri/Max
- Yuri is In Moscow, working closely with Max
- Max: Data abstraction
- Yuri: Working on 2 parts: data -> tiles, tiles -> images
- Engaging local Russian community to explore collaboration or developer contributions
- Head of ru wikimedia is in the coffee shop with them during the checkin
Dan
- Created “freezer” phab project for more of a high-level/long-term backlog
Kevin
- Team page will be created (updated) in wiki shortly, with some roles & responsibilities
Workboard Walkthrough
[edit]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- Are we blocked?
- No
- Are we blocking?
- No
Info/To Discuss
[edit]- How soon to schedule first retrospective? Length?
- Kevin to schedule 1 hour “next week” (schedules permitting)
- Initial WDQS release (0.0.1)?
- Waiting for changes to get merged. Probably deployed next week.
- Monday after next, data dumps with new ontology will be available.
- Have to update munge scripts and other minor changes, fix examples
- Tentative target: Mid-May
- Have not resolved how to handle redirects, but won’t block 0.0.1
- Search metrics results?
- Need place in phab workboard to stash stories that are no longer relevant
- Will discuss in separate process meetings
- FYI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Search_and_discovery