On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This email is aimed at members of the Search team, so
anyone else can freely
ignore it. It was easier for me to send it to this list, and it seemed like
it could be beneficial to have others aware of the issues that came up.
Here is a list of all the ideas that came up during the recent search
retrospective. I encourage further discussion about them, either in this
thread, or in a new thread per item/cluster, or in the talk page for the
retro itself[1], or elsewhere.
Do people want more feedback on their work/way [We discussed this, and Erika
has an action item to follow up]
In hangouts, make sure you are on screen when speaking [Note that although
you see yourself in a rectangle, everyone else only sees you as a square]
do we need a fully documented checklist on how to update the portal?
Full documented checklist might be too much, but I can't even find a
page on wikitech about portals (this probably tells more about my
ability to navigate wikitech than about the fact that this page
exists). There is some documentation inside the project itself [1][2],
but more oriented toward contributing / development than about
deployment.
automate our maven deployment / release process
Some improvements to elasticsearch plugins already [3]. I'll probably
follow up with Stas to see if we can do something on WDQS as well.
Find a way to fluently enable new search keywords that
need reindex/new data
Running A/B tests is a very slow feedback loop
Getting feedback on things that are still internal, before releasing to the
world
Weekly sprint planning meeting has a variable agenda
Does Cross-Wiki work still need its own column on the Search workboard?
We sometime focus too much on having efficient meetings [Kevin has an action
item for this]
Product (user?) Testing: I'd like to see if there's ways we could expand our
testing "toolbelt"
Do we need to foster more knowledge sharing between areas of expertise?
[Erika has an action item for this]
How to bring in outside people/organizations that want to help (converting
interest into a contract or other formal agreement)
This quarter has been a little lighter on community discussion
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Meetings/Search_retrospe…
[1]
https://github.com/wikimedia/portals/blob/master/README.md
[2]
https://github.com/wikimedia/portals/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
[3]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/340947/
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
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