Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-05-16

Topics from the past

• Deb attended the Reading offsite (deeper discussion postponed)
  • Deb will schedule a meeting later to go over the offsite

Announcements, Information, Questions

• Code review office hours (first was May 12; more to follow)
• Search offsite this week
• Chris K is at EMWCon next week (25 - 27 May). I’m presenting on what my team does.
• FDC released their first round of feedback on the annual plan.
  • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_2#Wikimedia_Foundation
• Annual reviews are proceeding; generally this week/next week

Scrum of Scrums

Blocked

• Portal update script blocked on ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029

Dependencies which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are not longer a blocker)

• Issue while installing new elasticsearch servers (Chris Johnson has about 60 servers arriving, it will take some time) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133772
• Wrong SSD in wdqs100[12]: same, bandwidth of Chris is limited - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120712

Are we blocking?

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Discovery News

• See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates

FYI

• All-Discovery retro Monday May 16
• Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled June 1
  • Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
• Next Discovery retrospectives: Scheduled late May/early June