Community Tech/Retrospectives/2016-02-29

Agenda

 * Quick intro
 * Action items from last time
 * Individual writing to add items to the buckets
 * Walk through new items briefly, for understanding
 * Vote on what to discuss
 * Deeper discussions (2-3?)
 * Pull out action items

= Participants =
 * Kaldari
 * Niharika
 * Danny

Action items from last time

 * Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
 * Done. Got feedback but project deprioritized at the moment.
 * Niharika: add to documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PHP_unit_testing/Writing_unit_tests#Databases
 * Done.
 * Frances: ops and registration for #wikimedia-commtech [DONE]
 * Done.
 * Frances - talk casually to Andre - set up talk with Andre/Quim/James A + team
 * Done. Ryan still has one scheduled with Maggie and JamesA.
 * Danny - talk to Johan re: unfriendly behavior
 * Done.
 * Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements
 * Outstanding.

What has gone well?

 * Focusing on the projects we can ship for end of the quarter, making great progress
 * Pageviews stuff is going well - we have a good chance of making our two project goals this quarter
 * Working with MusikAnimal has been awesome
 * Chat with Brian and Bartosz about Numerical sorting was productive, they are both interested in helping out
 * Deadlink logging API stuff is going good.
 * IA folks might lend us there dead link detection trick bag - that would be awesome but might take a little long
 * In community discussions about WMF going off the rails, Community Tech cited as the 1 bright spot :)

What could have gone better?

 * No Frances :(
 * ED drama was a huge distraction (esp in the SF office)
 * Yeah, too much email backlog and depressing conversations on -staff
 * And some fantastic people left. :(
 * Some friction between Max (Cyberpower) and IA
 * TCB's watchlist work is mysterious
 * We could probably be taking more advantage of TCB collaboration, although it takes some effort to manage

What else is on your mind?

 * When is Bryan transitioning?
 * Hackathon/GSoC -- help with managing 11+ projects?
 * Could we possibly scope out and mentor a student for one of our Top 10 projects? Ryan suggested user watchlist project but he might not be available to mentor.

Deeper discussions

 * GSOC mentorship
 * Probably not this year. Already working with lots of different parties and too many unknown variables.

Action Items

 * Kaldari: Ping Bryan on transition date
 * Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements