Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2017-12-21

Previous Action Items

 * Cormac: Archive this and last retro
 * Ramsey to continue to work with engineering team to set norms around absences and picking up the slack/coverage
 * Pam (email): Explore better communication channels for feedback (IRC is the current default)
 * Pam and Ramsey to talk about Product->Design->Engineering pipeline, starting with what is missing from user stories, try to get started with a loose process upon which we can iterate

What in the team's process is going well?

 * haha, are we suffering from retro burnout? (end of year burnout)
 * ^ This is a good thing?
 * We good, yo.
 * I think things are fine
 * We have a Blocked Column that helps clarify what is actually in-progress! +1

What in the team's process could be improved?

 * Cormac & Matthias need +2 on 3d2png repo
 * Nothing that I can think of
 * As illustrated by recent events, our communication with outside teams as far as staffing/resources/attention may need to be...more aggressive

What in the team's process is confusing?

 * Nothing at this moment
 * How we acquire talent, even when we don't ask for it Right?

Action Items

 * Pam to share out communication channels feedback
 * Ramsey to breakdown user stories (we have some epics that could use attention)
 * Ramsey to document Product-->Design-->Eng pipeline and share
 * Mark: How do we get +2 permissions for Cormac and Matthias on 3d2png repo?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership#Requesting_repository_ownership
 * Submitted: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183480
 * ed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183480#3854659
 * Matthias to archive retro