Community Tech/Retrospectives/2016-02-01

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

 * Ryan
 * Danny
 * Frances
 * Niharika

Action items from last time

 * Help Frances w Turnitin task: Kaldari
 * Forget how much of this happened, but: DONE *\o/*
 * Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
 * Need to do this. Kaldari will update the Gadget code on BetaLabs today.
 * Are we giving people admin accounts for demo-ing this?
 * Kaldari, Niharika, Frances: Look for timeslot(s) for pair programming sessions
 * Not done, how can we prioritize this? NK: Seems harder to prioritize now that we are in the middle of wishlist ticket investigations, but I would really like to see this happen.
 * Yes, we will have to make it a conscious priority and dedicate time for it
 * Danny: schedule bug triage meeting Fri, survey assessment mtg Tues after voting ends
 * Done

What's gone well?

 * Lego helped with reviewing the last of the Gadgets 2.0 work which was very helpful
 * We got a lot of work done! 25 points closed +1
 * Frances learned a lot about developing in the ApiBase framework, shared this with Niharika, and has made good progress +1
 * Stepping back to think strategically about the Internet Archive project
 * Finished (just about) the turnitin work; that's all great, Earwig/Ben is great to work with, Eran fixed the upstream bug +
 * PageAssessments extension development has gone fairly well without many glitches. Learnt a lot.
 * That has been great to watch.
 * Jan and his team taking ownership of the Pageview stats tool (for now) leaves us free to focus on other stuff.
 * Danny: Niharika's investigation was an excellent base for Jan's team's work
 * Starting to work with Internet Archive
 * Making progress with Max
 * Talking with TCB
 * Frances: all really great to see, a model of good collaboration in a complicated situation
 * Quarterly review +1
 * Frances moving down to 3rd +1

What could have gone better?

 * Turnitin took forever
 * Unfriendly behavior on Phabricator
 * ApiBase is very frustrating (and yes, documentation, argh)
 * CommTech budget is a mess, need to talk to Tony more about how to sort it out
 * Documentation could have been better, as always. :) +100

What else is on your mind?

 * PageAssessments goal/definition of done
 * Deadlinks goal/strategies/definition of done/not wanting to commit to a really hard AI/ML problem
 * General organizational integrity/values/chaos

Deeper discussions

 * Unfriendly behavior on Phabricator
 * PageAssessments goal/definition of done
 * Deadlinks goal/strategies/definition of done/not wanting to commit to a really hard AI/ML problem
 * See

Action items

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