A few quick updates form the Discovery department this week. Feedback and questions are welcome.
== Highlights ==
* Mikhail sent out an email describing the cool new backend update that all the dashboards got - from Vagrant to Puppet [0]
== Discussions ==
* A letter from some of the attendees of Iberoconf 2017 detailing requests to the Foundation for more and better communications and translations. [1] [2]
* The Analysis team started discussing about adding continuous integration configuration to all wikimedia/discovery analytics repositories [3]
=== Search ===
* Erik did a lot of intensive research evaluating the libraries for machine learning ranking with LambdaRank and settled on xgboost running over yarn [4]
* We are having a lively discussion about how best to utilize the Kuromoji Japanese language analyzer [5]
=== Analysis ===
* We've updated the dashboards with proper licensing (since it's all open source) so that anyone can use it and / or borrow the code to fix an issue they have [6]