Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-02-17

Napoleon Dynamite (02/02/15-02/13/15)
Notable events:
 * Existential extensions questions

Absences:
 * No one!?!?

WG Points carried over from previous iteration: 21 Points attempted: 44 Points completed: 11

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

Collections Points carried over from previous iteration: N/A Points attempted: 18! Points completed: 18!

Actions from last retrospective:
 * Bring up CentralAuth bugs resurfacing at scrum of scrums [KALDARI]
 * Kaldari worked a bunch on this, still a can of worms
 * Write clarifying email to clarify expectations around OOJS UI and how it fits in with us (send him ideas) [Kaldari]
 * status unknown

Outstanding actions from last last last last retrospective:
 * Schedule a meeting for the team to talk to Damon about some of the challenges we are facing as we try to "move faster and stay current"; set agenda, get it scheduled! [Moiz/Kaldari]
 * status unknown

What's been working well?

 * A new volunteer+
 * codezee? yep
 * there might be a new volunteer for Apps too!
 * Github
 * 2 person dev team ( or 1 person 24 hours a day )
 * Florian submitting patches like crazy
 * on the flip side, requires review time (but that's OK!, and his patches are good!)
 * WG team communicated issues with submitting to Wikidata and then discussed 'em quickly
 * My 20% time :)
 * what did you do? Working on latin-cyrillic-latin conversion script for the Uzbek language (core).
 * Throwing shit at fan about Minerva as The Responsive Skin for MW
 * check out the the thread on wikitech-l ("Boil the ocean...")
 * this work should be PMed?

What hasn't worked well?

 * The process for getting everything up on an extension is horribly manual. +
 * Getting Gather on beta labs
 * Rob has patches languishing in Gerritt
 * Greg G is really da man for this
 * Action! Talk to Greg G about these patches [MAX]
 * Still on it after 2 weeks (no signoff, no tests, no browser tests, no qunit tests, no grunt, no js/css structure or resourceloader, no jenkins verification, and we just got bots on irc and stuff like that)
 * ++visibility!

What is confusing?

 * How to install and configure Gather for testing and code review
 * Require Gather.php, so far no config needed
 * Action! Get some better documentation up and email [JOAQUIN]
 * Bootstrap script if possible?
 * OOJS
 * Joakino spent 20% time on OOJS/OOJS UI; bad use of time ;-)
 * poor/no documentation and confusing
 * don't understand why we would use it (Collections team)?
 * WG team has been using, Baha learned from Trevor; JS code got bigger, but easier to debug
 * We're being pushed to adopt w/o good support: education, documentation, expectations...
 * See action above assigned to Kaldari (note Kaldari's action related to css, this is more about javascript)
 * Throwing shit at fan about Minerva as The Responsive Skin for MW+