Wikimedia Apps/imported/Retrospective-January 8 2015

= Previous Retrospective Actions = Action! Try limiting individual standups to 1 minute [Team] keep doing Action! Send around mobile web workboard view for bugs [Kristen] Will do at buggin' meeting Action! Talk to Erik about the balance between holding back features for the sake of Comm splashes vs. being open and transparent; what is the line for what is a splashy feature vs not [DAN] DONE

= Worked Well =


 * Onboarding Adam
 * People spending valuable time onboarding Adam +1
 * dragging Brion into the office more to work in-person!
 * {"en-us": "Vacation", "en-gb": "Holiday"} +1+1+1+1
 * CHRISTMASSSSSS+1
 * Tweet a Fact on Android looks awesome +1+1
 * Got a lot of stuff done early in the sprint :)
 * Android Gallery; beta release before holidays +1
 * Android Gallery with swipe left/right, zoom/pan, ...
 * Dan had fun doing some code quality tweaks on Android
 * New stuff based on the new iOS storage code is going really fast -- makes me feel the refactor was worth it! +100
 * Dan creating EL schemasvb

= Worked Poorly =
 * "Twerk a fact"
 * Division of big lead image & conversion tasks could possibly have broken down to better work pieces, but we got em on the run now +1
 * we have a hard time breaking down large tasks, slows throughput (or perception of throughput)
 * things are more self-contained now, lessens risk of this going forward
 * Analytics stuff
 * Action: talk to Toby about woes [Dan]

= Confuses Us =


 * The role of mobile at the MediaWiki Developer Summit+1
 * there is a meet on Monday to clarify some of this (Brion attending)
 * risk of strengthening a mobile silo with a mobile track
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85151
 * meeting tomorrow to clarify what is happening in sessions
 * Swift. When is it happening?
 * behind on iOS
 * busy with onboarding
 * Who does code review for random patches in MediaWiki core? e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182886/ +1
 * Dan is adding Brion to patch. reachign out to Chris
 * It can be a bit confusing when things like wikidata descriptions in mobileview are actually going live +1
 * Dan showed Monte where to find "release notes"
 * Code signing profiles
 * Action! Document process as well as possible and possibly turn team agent in to role account [Brion -> get initial docs done by mid-Jan]
 * Team lead role

Note: Moiz is getting sucked in to mobile web stuff right now; if he seems disconnected he's sorry! Dan checked with Luis about tweet a fact stuff, he will get back to us next week on attribution-related issues; hold off on releasing to beta (couple days)