Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2014-08-18

Armageddon (7/14/2014-7/28/2014)
Notable events: *Kristen starts *Code review conversation, deciding to retrospectives every iteration Absences: *none

Points carried over from previous iteration: Points attempted: 29 Points completed: 13

Brazil [n the Hood] (7/28/2014-8/18/2014)
Notable events: *Wikimania (three-week Sprint) *Adam's baby *Juliusz announces... Absences: *Max, Kaldari, and Maryana at Wikimania for most of Sprint *Arthur sick 8/4-8/5

Points carried over from previous iteration: 0 Points attempted: 16 Points completed: 11

What's been working well?

 * WikiTinder hacking, quick user tests + lots of enthusiasm at Wikimania
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/WikiGrok
 * Kristen
 * Max's HHVM gig

What hasn't worked well?

 * Forgot about lightning deploy after Wikimania
 * Suggestion: if there are unusual scheduling issues around a deploy event (eg wikimania) throw up a calendar reminder
 * mediawiki-vagrant has been really unreliable lately
 * Dan Duvall is involved, but not "the leader"
 * Flow guys are having issues too
 * ACTION!: escalate to RobLa [Juliusz]


 * Beta labs has been very unreliable
 * This was disappointing during Wikimania
 * ACTION: Release/QA team "own" Beta labs (we think); greg-g would be a good person to raise this with [Maryana]
 * We're still working on VisualEditor+1 (reated to previous two) [Maryana]
 * policy: we are only doing bug fixes now
 * There is a mobile-tech email that decribes phased handoff
 * Juliusz's departure impacts the handoff
 * See email to mobile-tech 'Followup from yesterday's mobile editing -> editing team transition chat' (https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/mobile-tech/editing/mobile-tech/oDQ2oLoqMNs/iKmJXmDcHvcJ)
 * ACTION!: Maryana sync up with James F. To check-in on handoff [Maryana]

What confuses?

 * AAAARGH JUJU+1000
 * How are we going to do things with 0.6 frontend developers? :(
 * Velocity will take a hit in September/Q1 (maybe Q2)
 * ACTION: May need to rope Jon in for code review [Kaldari] DONE

ACTION: raise concerns to Tomasz and ask for clarity [Kristen]
 * How's the hiring going?
 * Bahodir starts 9/8: ask Tomasz about how firm that is, ask if he can fly in for a week or two
 * May have some of JuJu's time (PT) from Poland, if his Mom agrees
 * What's going on with the QA/browser test issues? Who will care about this when Juju leaves...?

Carried over from last retrospective:

ACTION! Kaldari to organize a meeting with relevant players to come up with concrete next steps on moving forward the template RFC conversation