Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2017-09-09

Previous Retrospective Actions
Dmitry to ping Chris Koerner about the MW app CARRY OVER Check-in w Corey next Retro about ownership of current (eg footer) and future page-library work DONE After user testing, re-discuss what the plans are, in light if the new info & how we should approach dicussions with Kiwix DONE
 * discussed during planning
 * more meetings coming up

Significant Events

 * Preparations for editing descriptions on en.wp -_-
 * Page vandalism affecting the Android app :'[
 * Corey is playing Breath of the Wild NICE!

Lacked

 * Access to analytics data - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAP#Access

Learned

 * Android themes [in-depth]

Loved

 * Pretty good velocity+
 * Kiwix's concerns about our Offline Library work seem to have been addressed to their satisfaction
 * Very close to hiring Android PM🎉
 * Interesting user study results about Offline Library+1

Longed For
TIME (the magazine?)

Questions

 * When a tasks is completed, who moves it rightward? (I think there's a team norm about this from back in the day but not sure if it still applies)
 * DB: owner should be responsible for moving it
 * Corey: As tech lead, I used to check the board daily and make sure things move forward
 * Decision: Owner is responsible for moving the task
 * How is the team feeling about Phab with 4 engineers working on the board?


 * How are things with QA since the QA meeting a few weeks ago? https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/apps-qa-retro

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/User_feedback_review_SOP
 * Quick Chore wheel expectation/schedule check-up +

Action items
Dmitry to ping Chris Koerner about the MW app Dmitry to create a spike ticket for investing a framework to use for snapshot tests (Tech Debt) for testing large scale user actions (integration test) Natalia to create a ticket for exploratory ticket for Offline (story: try to break it) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175731 Rita to forward previous chore wheel e-mails to Sharvani & Cooltey Natalia to update the team norms page with the Phab stuff https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Team_norms