Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting minutes/2015-05-07

2015-05-07

Checkins

Nik:

• Finished most of work on plugins w/help from James
• Need to write release announcements at elastic forums
• Blocked on filling out the phab sprint boards
  • (Answer was given right after this meeting)

Max:

• Had productive discussion w/Ops to figure out next steps
• Will get spare server “soon” for experimentation (unclear timeline)
• Started setting up labs instance for demos (maybe ready tomorrow?)

Yuri:

• Very happy w/ support from ops now
• Ops hiring a dba who has worked with open street maps
• New system will be easy to instrument
• Graphs have launched!!!

Stas:

• On Monday we will have some clarity on when we can release 0.0.1
• Release as sw package should be able to happen next week
  • Next week will have new WD ontology in production, so want to test that before release
  • Most issues have been resolved

James:

• Started working on highlighter release (maven)
  • Found a bunch of improvements we could make to the release process
  • Will look into a remote connector that can fall back to maven central
• Lots of meetings
• Will be working on event logging for desktop

Dan:

• Oliver is working on dashboards
• Dan wants to be able to test on desktop to more easily see individual events

Moiz:

• Will meet w/Wes and Dan about user-facing ideas
• Putting together 2 job descriptions
• Coordinating S&D Hackathon stuff

Wes:

• Re-shared Search and Discovery goals slide deck draft, for review
  • Appropriate parts will be pushed to wiki when ready

Giuseppe:

• Nothing to report
• Puppet stuff still on hold; eventually will be picked up by Nik or James or Stas

Workboard Walkthrough

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/search-team/

• Not necessary yet; will probably become part of the agenda later

Scrum of Scrums

• Are we blocked?
  • For tile server: Need 1 TB server, can be in labs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
  • Nothing else
• Are we blocking?
  • No
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Info/To Discuss

• Kevin will be out Monday May 11
  • James will fill in as meeting facilitator/notetaker
• Initial WDQS release (0.0.1) Status https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96579
• Search metrics results--Anything new?
  • Nope
• Kevin plans to circulate draft process doc by tomorrow
• Meetings status quo for now
  • Possibly change by next Thursday (May 14), depending on feedback to upcoming proposals from Kevin

FYI

• • Oliver presented initial results for homepage: http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html
• Hackathon (May 23-25)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Search_and_discovery
• Wikimania (July 15-19)
• Review time has begun: **https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_2014_-_2015_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective