Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-04-14

Notable events

 * Max leaves for maps
 * Gather on en-wiki
 * Maryana left us(?)
 * Everyone left us. We are so lonely. And afraid. And cold.
 * Quarterly Review
 * Quarterly planning
 * Rob's first deployment
 * Sam's first deployment
 * Jon Katz takes on all the things
 * Sam's the new tech lead for the good ship Readership
 * Anonymous editing

Absences
Maryana out a bunch

Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEdtQuSLdAxdGF0Unlob2MtRmZTeU4tODJXbk9rQ1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1

Previous Actions/Further Discussion

 * Action! Baha find where OOJS documentation work is being tracked and send to list [Baha]
 * Sent email to S, "work not being tacked in Phab" (officially), but Baha found some tickets; Kaldari verifies that documentation still sucks.
 * OOJS crew needs to take more responsibility for adoption but people involved are distracted by VE.
 * We guess no documentation will be touched until VE launch.
 * Action! Jon and Sam come up with game plan for how we want to use OOJS going forward: ignore it?
 * Action! Kaldari bring up with Damon
 * Action! Jon and Kaldari join rapid prototyping task force and meet with JK and Moiz before next retro [Moiz] ???
 * Action! Sprint kickoff emails for Gather and more verbose kickoff emails for WikiGrok [JR, KL] DONE
 * Jon and Sam talking more
 * JK spans project
 * nice to see each team doign well and sharing our wins; we can als share fails
 * Action! Draft and email proposal for WikiGrok team to move to Phab [KL] DONE
 * moved to Phab
 * useful for managin cross-team blockers
 * Kaldari thinks downgrade from Phab but upgrade from Phab + Trello
 * Action! Keep raising Vagrant bugs and weighing in on them [ALL] [DONE, Ongoing]
 * Jon thinks they finally solved slowdown problems; vagrant 'get update', was instantly faster
 * Action! Send email to Erik and Damon and tell them about team confusion re: search priorities next quarter [Maryana]
 * Action! If Kaldari learns anything new about search in Q4 from one on one w/Damon he'll report back

What's been working well?

 * Gather's lack of need for moderation
 * cross team pollination (including apps)
 * Phab has helped somewhat
 * JK is a bridge
 * Corey and Brian reach out
 * Phabricator -- despite constant refreshing ^
 * Sam tech lead! (Does that mean Kaldari wasn't doing a good job?)yesnoJK (He was great!!)<-Who wrote this?I don't know, it's a mystery
 * Lots of stuff done on unstructured sprint
 * Not using Vagrant
 * Deploying stuff ( hopefully weekly deployments go well :) )
 * pairing with Kaldari worked well
 * Action! write up "gotchas!" of derploying [Kaldari]
 * Deployed gather v2
 * have received user feedback already
 * Sam&Jon filling up JonK ""absences""
 * templatessss (was that last retro?)

What hasn't worked well

 * Plan for anonymous editing rollout
 * Action! Ask Jon K to give us a post-mortem of what happened [Jon K.]
 * My kanban email
 * Action! Set up kanban meet/overview with TPG <-> Mobile Web [KL]
 * Tech debt tech debt tech debt++++++++
 * including oooojsssssui
 * Laundry list of stuff: custom login page, etc.
 * need better roadmap for eliminating tech debt
 * Action! Sam and Jon meet to form a proposal for how to handle tech debt and feed back to team [Jon and Sam]
 * WikiGrok vs. Wikidata community+++
 * Action! Kaldari sum up on email
 * My bandwidth+
 * Support for Gather
 * bikeshedding around what we're calling things
 * Safeguard+
 * templllatteees (adoption)
 * Gather's lack of need for moderation (not enough users)
 * Phab emails metadata
 * yuri unstructured patch submitting?

What is confusing?

 * Everything regarding the organization + (Animal farm?) 3 legs good 2 legs bad
 * Deployment process (brittle)+++
 * feel like Jerkins is fallign apart
 * Is offsite going to happen?
 * What is the reorg ? +++
 * I mean, its all too mysterious Whooo knows?!!?oooooo Max for CEO!
 * Action! You'll see!