Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-12-18
ANDROID[edit]
December 18, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions[edit]
- Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry] DRAFTED
- Production-release-cadence digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] DONE
- "Stars from Midnight"
- "The Midnight Copy"
Loved[edit]
- We r featured
- Best of 2015
- Donations coming in
- Got done with scheduled sprint work early +1
- Got the crashes taken care of ASAP as planned+
- More native views.+
- Low crash numbers.+
Lacked[edit]
- Max got tied up with TPG Strategy and iOS beta
Learned[edit]
- RESTBase has a nice dashboard!
Longed for[edit]
- ...a resource-leak-free app
- Spoon tests.
- Stable instrumentation tests.
- More plain JUnit tests.
- More CI automation (release builds, localization updates, ...)
- PNG crushing working properly on my OS X laptops
iOS[edit]
December 22, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions[edit]
- Design to rejigger design meeting to squeeze in estimation [MAX TO EMAIL] DONE
- Email thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [MAX TO EMAIL] PUNT
Worked Well[edit]
- (continuing to work well) Phab tags (beta/prod/etc.)
- Estimation/sync/regroup/rally meeting we had last week to triage to focus on beta
- subtasks for RTL "epic"
- We got to the lightning talks with an app!
- Responsiveness!
- nobody attacked us on mobile-l or Talk page (yet+)
- DON'T JINX IT+1
- this list of worked well items
- bugs are going away
Worked Poorly[edit]
- Beta Review & iTC shutdown—we might've missed the pre-xmas boat
- Suggested action: setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our ducks in a row
Confuses Us[edit]
- Now that the beta is out, what will our regular release cadence be?
- Will we have alpha, beta, and production apps, a la Android?
- If so, how will we get things from one app to the other?
- Will we have alpha, beta, and production apps, a la Android?
- ET: where I can check the stuff in QA column?
Action Items[edit]
- Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR]
- Figure out how to use release tags going forward [MAX/JOSH]
- Setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our iTC ducks in a row [BRIAN]