Community Tech/Retrospectives/2015-11-23

Action items from last time

 * Kaldari: Post retro notes
 * Done
 * Danny to follow up on template/broken gadgets page/board
 * Done: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-tech-fixes/ Tag until after the survey.
 * Kaldari: make sure Danny is in all Sprint planning meetings
 * Done 4ever
 * Danny to add a task for gadgets 2.0 documentation
 * Done.
 * Kevin: Plan another workshop
 * Not done; proposed shift from "facilitator-push" to "team-pull"
 * Follow up on "plan to do more stuff similarly, remotely * " (N, F)
 * Stalled until Frances is back from Vienna
 * Frances follow up with Quim
 * Danny to talk to Siko about translation services
 * We didn't need translation services for the Survey, we'll talk about the tech support translation
 * Kaldari to send Danny info about translation services
 * Done

What has gone well?

 * Wikimania scholarship app stuff wrapped up in a day and a half nicely
 * Labs project is setup for Gadgets 2.0 testing
 * Talking with Kunal about Gadget 2.0 stuff went well, made some progress +++
 * Survey seems to be going relatively smoothly
 * CItation bot stuff is mostly wrapped up (seemed like a success)
 * Gadget namespaces and repos done/merged

What could have gone better?

 * Dev work has been a little slow for me this week
 * Last minute planning for CL support on survey
 * Integrate Turnitin task seems stuck -- picked up Nov 2, still in dev
 * Translations for tech survey answers -- only Arabic so far +++
 * Danny needs to pay more attention to email

What else is on your mind?

 * Excited for next phase of the survey
 * Labs instance? Anything else need to be done?
 * Sprint size (26 points this sprint) +++

Deeper discussions

 * Talking with Kunal about Gadget 2.0 stuff went well, made some progress +++
 * Translations for tech survey answers -- only Arabic so far +++
 * Possibly try to involve new outside translators - but they won't know Wiki jargon
 * Sprint size (26 points this sprint) +++
 * Do better at clearing blockers and pulling tasks from backlog when needed
 * Danny suggested daily standups as a possible solution

Action Items

 * Kaldari: Post retro notes
 * Niharika to do code review for Wikimania scholarship app stuff
 * Follow-up on translation needs with CE team: Johan
 * Report about Wikisource conference: Johan (and maybe Frances)
 * Help Frances w Turnitin task if she's stuck: Kaldari
 * Danny: Be more attentive to email
 * Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager
 * better internet service for Kaldari

Retro the retro

 * Went OK without Kevin (but we miss him)
 * Finished early
 * Everything was discussed that was useful to discuss