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

= Actions/Further Discussion = Action! Jon and Sam come up with game plan for how we want to use OOJS goign forward: ignore it? Action! Kaldari brign up with Damon
 * 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), bu Baha found some tickets; Kaldari verifies that documentation still sucks.
 * OOJS crew needs to take mroe resposnbility for adoption but people involved are distracted by VE.
 * We guess no documentation will be touched until VE launch.
 * 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]
 * 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) 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 :) ) Deployed gather v2 Sam&Jon filling up JonK ""absences"" templatessss (was that last retro?)
 * Phab has helped somewhat
 * JK is a bridge
 * Corey and Brian reach out
 * pairing with Kaldari worked well
 * Action! write up "gotchas!" of derploying [Kaldari]
 * have received user feedback already

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

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