Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2018-08-13

August 13 2018

== Previous  Action Items ==


 * none

== Keep ==


 * Design reviews!+1+1+1


 * Experimenting with play store localization and promotion in other languages +1+1+1


 * Taking care of the landscape UI of the App+1


 * Learning and using Kotlin in the project+1


 * Major post-release analysis/reporting? (+1)+1


 * Keep on being awesome, y'all+10k

== Stop ==



== Start ==


 * Making Phab persist ticket status when you move tickets to another board +++


 * Being better about creating tickets for new designs before grooming/planning


 * Adding reply templates to the OTRS+1+1+1


 * **better** reply templates


 * BTW there are some in this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Oo0zEWCPXONRugyonJqltAgT3FJI4ZvRz5aQWvM1bw/edit#gid=239349797 - feel free to add/update to them too


 * handling bottle-necks to major releases better?+1


 * remember metrics earlier


 * Trying to introduce mechanisms for A/B testing in the app with Editor-related experiments  +40k+1


 * Learning more about what is involved with editing on Wikipedia and immersing into editor experiences as the team starts working on more contribution features


 * go to Suggestbot, try Content Translation tool, look at user pages and talk pages of prominent editors, look at talk pages for contentious articles


 * also good resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Essays/Primer_for_AfD,_AfC_and_PROD


 * Getting started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started


 * Edit-a-thon for apps offsite?

== Questions ==


 * if the poll notifications don’t give the results expected, will we still keep what is already built, in the app?


 * yes, notifications will eventually be full feature in the app


 * Rita is changing teams!!! what will be of us!!! 😫😭


 * will be slowly ramping down from Sept through Oct


 * Growth team's goals overlap with Android


 * Carolyn will fill in

== Action Items ==


 * Charlotte - make sure there's a list of tickets to groom/plan and email to team prior to meeting


 * Lani - see who controls OTRS and look into adding templates


 * Charlotte - follow up with Corey re: testing


 * Lani - Add edit-a-thon to offsite schedule