Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-02-03

Labyrinth/Unstructured (01/05/15-01/16/15 and 01/20/15-01/30/15)
Notable events:
 * All Hands
 * Dev Summit
 * Spretrobreakfast
 * Everyone in SF!
 * We met Florian :)
 * We proposed Florian for +2
 * Quarterly Review
 * WikiGrok reader test!!!!
 * Ferry Friday!!!
 * Buddy system!!!

Absences:
 * Some people were sick. Kaldari!
 * Max sick a couple of days

Points carried over from previous iteration: 31 Points attempted: 63 Points completed: 31

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

Actions from last retrospective:


 * Email mobile-tech when there is a large code hygiene commit/change [TEAM]
 * Schedule a gerrit/general tools (eg how to derploy) session in order to better facilitate sharing of skills and workload (e.g. code review) across team [JON] DONE, success, made it a repeating meeting
 * Reply to the Mantle/MF split thread so we can kill it [TEAM] DONE

Outstanding actions from 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]
 * Freedom to derploy moar frequently (may require beefing up QA)
 * should mobile web be built on mw? can we move in that direction?
 * lots of productive discussion at dev summit
 * Moiz assemble his thoughts and reach out to Damon

What's been working well?

 * Seeing lots of people in person / Being in the office +++
 * Wikidata Query Service project (got a nice demo)
 * Pow wow
 * Talks in Dev summit+++ props to plenary session speakers + Jon's session on new ways of contributing!
 * Lila is excited about WikiGrok & Collections :)
 * We're doing "innovate"
 * Florian in the office!
 * New developer to keep an eye on - codezee
 * Collections is ON
 * Pair programming with the J Hob.
 * Live note taking during the Dev Summit
 * Cornering Sam and Ryan about WikiGrok
 * Max help get dev env setup for WG testing
 * Sam covering for me while I am sick or on vacation in the future
 * "Kaldari was able to be sick"
 * Key metric identified
 * Our late night musical stylings on the roof of Club Quarters oooooooo oo oo oo
 * Getting Sam and Rob trained on deployment (hopefully)
 * email Greg
 * Backend training with Max (Didn't learn much, but got my local environment working well ;))
 * More good things than bad things this retrospective.

What hasn't worked well?

 * Dev summit organised super late / last minute. Have complained to Tomasz.
 * My driving. Almost killed half team.
 * Echo in office is horrible today.
 * Browser tests neglected +
 * no one knows how to run them...and they are useful!
 * My liver+
 * All hands wasn't that great (Dev summit was though) JE SUIS LITTLEBIRD!!! not really :) +
 * Wasn't able to push out anything during all-hands week
 * WikiPlague
 * Vagrant slow+++
 * Beta labs exploding during Dev Summit
 * Maryana's QR torture (that's why they pay me the medium-sized buck$)
 * CentralAuth ahhhhh
 * bugs resurfacing
 * Action!: Can we escalate? Chris Steipp is aware, can we help him out? How do we move this forward? Bring up at scrum of scrums; if we derp derp derploy [something] Chris can debug [KALDARI]

What is confusing?

 * Will dev summit have a retro?
 * OOJS UI and how it fits in with us+++++++ (OoiJus)ужас
 * pressure increasing to use more of it+ – who's feeling the pressure and how is it being applied?
 * there is a song about it: a tribute song
 * Jon is on UI standardization group, but he's going on vacay
 * Should Jared be giving us some guidance?
 * There's a lot of work to do and not sure how we're going to fit it in
 * Can Trevor help set expectations around this?
 * Fear that this will leave us in a position of having fragmented UI elements due to stuff not being covered by OOJS
 * (Possible!) Action!: Spikes during the sprints with well-defined outcomes that we can point folk to?
 * Action! Kaldari will write clarifying email (send him ideas) [Kaldari]


 * Life post Max if he leaves us / backend calvary (let's honeypot Aaron!)
 * Competing living style guides (is mediawiki-ui deprecated?)++++++
 * see above
 * Setting up Vagrant to get WikiGrok working end-to-end-to-end-to-end
 * needs documentation [SAM??] why does Sam need documentation?
 * When can we run WikiGrok complex queries in production? ++++
 * June? Not sure what Nik said..."next few months" Didn't he mention end of march? Dev demo then, prod by summer
 * End of March is something we'll be able to download and run on our lappy tops
 * Quoting from the WDQS demo notes: "June: whatever Wikigrok needs"
 * If Max joins the project, they'll be able to go much faster :)
 * Estimates with/without Max?
 * Getting out of our rhythm/re-entry