Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2019-08-15

2019-08-15

Previous Action Items


 * Possibly review some action items from offsite doc

What are we doing that we should keep doing?


 * Workin' fast, kickin' ass, and takin' names


 * Sharing screens/work progress, it enables quick iteration


 * GIF showing the interaction of elements


 * Really great to hop on a call almost every day


 * It's pushiing each other to do better work :)


 * Sharing rougher work earlier and more often


 * Being willing to just jump on a call and work through something


 * Feature specific meetings? I do dig our MAD sessions +1 +1


 * MAD sessions?


 * Machine-aided depicts


 * High-level discussion of how/why we are building new features before we dive into them is great +1

What are we doing that we should stop doing?







What aren't we doing that we should we start doing?


 * We need a direct line to Wikibase/WMDE folks or at least a better process to get in touch with them when things go off the rails++


 * During Other Statements release process we saw some new bugs surface that had to do with points of interaction btw us and Wikibase


 * multiple UBN/train blocking issues came up; due to time zone and holiday schedules I felt like I was one of the only devs around to deal with these urgent tickets and had no idea what to do; this was pretty stressful


 * would be good to have some kind of regular check-ins with wikibase or to meet periodically to better understand how our projects inter-relate


 * (we do have a meeting for that ^_^) Which one? maybe I have just never joined it [Wikidata & WMF sync, every 2 weeks]


 * I don't know any of the Wikibase devs personally and did not feel comfortable just randomly shooting "please help" messages


 * => You can also ping folks on IRC even if you don't know them.  They are usually nice


 * => Amanda to send warning message to WMDE for next big release


 * Naming ourselves in Etherpad [new Etherpad, who dis?]



Action Items


 * Need a volunteer to archive the last few months' retros, should take 15 min, just super boring


 * Adopt a feature-specific meeting for the next major milestone [Ramsey]


 * Eric to join WMDE - WMF sync meeting [Ramsey]