Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-11-20

= ANDROID = November 20, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * Update on Samsung devices? [ADAM] [DONE PINGED]
 * Add cards for detecting regressions when pulling in CSS changes from the MW extension [Stephen] DONE
 * Investigate moving emulator-dependent tests to async operation [Dmitry] DONE
 * Adam ping Toby about crashes on nontrivial subset of devices [ADAM] DONE
 * Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] NOT DONE
 * "Stars from Midnight"
 * "The Midnight Copy"
 * Cancel design review [MAX] DONE
 * Standups/adhoc meetings instead
 * Email thread: GSOC/Outreachy -- how many can we accommodate? [MICHAEL] DONE

Loved

 * Killin' it
 * Another great patch from a volunteer+

Lacked

 * (-(EMAIL))+++++++
 * Getting the new /page/summary endpoint deployed by RB team

Learned

 * Four Ls, three S'
 * Derper understanding of Android View internals
 * All about testing (JUnit + TSG)+

Longed for

 * Spoon regression testing
 * Fast CI

Action Items

 * Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry]
 * Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] NOT DONE
 * "Stars from Midnight"
 * "The Midnight Copy"
 * Email thread: How reading strategy will effect android team [KAITY] MAYBE DONE
 * Investigate mentorship (and product) opportunities (related to GSOC/Outreachy/Israel) [Q3&4 PLANNING?]

= iOS = November 20, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * Action! Research how other teams do specs (e.g. Reading Web team) [BRIAN/JOSH] DONE
 * Action! We need a standard QA rigor, engineers to design a QA acceptance criteria for all testing [TEAM] DONE (WILL REVISIT/MONITOR REGRESSION)
 * Action! Groom QA column [JOSH] DONE
 * Action! Assign a day of the week that we regularly release? Email thread [JOSH/TEAM] DONE
 * Action! Schedule a team-wide regular planning meeting [MAX] DONE
 * Action! Let's talk about how we define "done" [MAX] DONE
 * New columns in Phab

Worked Well

 * Defined "done"
 * Hooray more accurate velocity measurement!
 * Cleaned up QA column
 * Feed loading experience and quick iteration on designs
 * Phab wrangling by josh+1
 * Defining Design Priorities+1
 * Nirzar's design presentation++1

Worked Poorly

 * Flakey travis builds: losing value here, need to figure out a fix
 * Template
 * Versioning and QA testing (bring build version number back to bottom of icon? oops we have this)
 * It's still in the "about" but you don't even know if bug X is in build N. knowing the build # isn't the problem
 * Regressions+
 * WMF-ALL
 * i10n bot?
 * considering cases while desinging

Actions Items

 * Bump up QA column WIP? Evaluate WIP (email) [TEAM]
 * Batch move all alpha tagged, resolved tasks in PM signoff to released column [MAX]
 * Make a devops ticket for investigating travis [BRIAN]