Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-01-20

= ANDROID = January 15, 2016

Significant Events

 * All hands/Dev summit
 * Bowling
 * Holidays
 * MCS pre-generation started (main pages get stale without it)
 * Wiktionary patches merged!+++
 * Grooming kicked off and becoming regular. Triage column geting shorter. :)
 * Android piloting Phlogiston

Loved

 * MediaWiki, etc (non-Android) tech talk
 * all hands +1+
 * Meeting people face-to-face for the first time +
 * Giving Stephen an idea of how tall everyone really is -+ (I'm actually standing right now, can you tell?)
 * working with people IRL for a bit

Lacked

 * bowling skills of my youth
 * action items from Dev Summit
 * Dedicated QA resources
 * Still struggling to meet our sprint-to-sprint commitments
 * kan to the ban

Learned
I doubt it supports cross-wiki lists. ( (+-1)
 * Dmitry is a wicked, vengeance-driven+1 bowler
 * Gather might be lacking some features for saved pages. Still to be confirmed. Gather is currently only on enwiki and hewiki, plus en.wikivoyage.

Longed for

 * Releases each iteration/sprint
 * -1 not until this is better automated
 * More face-time with Android IRL+

Action Items

 * Need further discussions with Gather folks on how to proceed, email thread [BERND/DMITRY]

= iOS = January 20, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

 * Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR] NOT DONE
 * Figure out how to use release tags going forward [MAX/JOSH] DONE
 * Setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our iTC ducks in a row [BRIAN] DONE

Significant Events

 * All hands/Dev summit
 * IRL planning/sandwich/navigation clarity/bowling
 * Sandwhich meeting photo: http://1.images.comedycentral.com/images/shows/kroll_show/video/krollshow_201_too_much_tuna_640x360.jpg?width=0&height=0&crop=true
 * Sherah joined
 * Mass beta MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
 * Quarterly Review

Worked Well

 * Navigation meetings at dev summit +1
 * Monte's weekend projects+1
 * Video! NEEDZ MOAR GOTH
 * Bowling+1+1
 * Big sandwich
 * Cap on featureset for 5.0 production
 * i.e. we defined one—sticking to it will be the challenge
 * Feedback survey+1

Worked Poorly

 * Lacking #Easy-tagged tasks in our backlog
 * We have a person willing to contribute 3-4hrs/wk but we don't know what they should work on
 * Communication w/ services/infra team about AuthManager changes
 * Project management and planning bandwidth(+BG)
 * What are the bottlenecks & time-sinks?
 * Anything we can do to self-organize and give you space to think at a higher-level?

Confuses Us

 * State and category columns on one board
 * Resolving tasks that don't go through flow
 * BG: Only concern is order of operations: prototyping/design -> acceptance criteria -> estimation -> dev
 * Connecting our planning meeting aspirations with Phab reality
 * We should talk QA changes

Action Items

 * iOS to get their own retro etherpad [MAX]
 * Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR]
 * Note for next retro: Do we need to chat with Adam B about communication around services/infra team re: AuthManager
 * Discuss process moving forward for boards, planning, etc [MAX/JOSH/TEAM]
 * Email thread to discuss "State and category columns on one board" [MAX]
 * Note for next retro: Are we capturing our decision-making in task form? Phab execution, etc?
 * ACTION: Schedule time after planning meetings to capture discussions into actions [MAX/JOSH]