Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2014-09-2

City of God (8/18/2014-9/02/2104)
Notable events: *Kaldari becomes tech lead!!!! Absences: *Maryana out 8/29

Points carried over from previous iteration: 0 Points attempted: 13 Points completed: 13

What's been working well?

 * Managed to wrap up some long-lasting VE bugs
 * WikiTinder prototyping
 * Noh moar VE!

What hasn't worked well?
Action: Kaldari ask Tomasz to help figure out deliverables and timeline
 * Getting code review with (basically) 1 front-end engineer on the team :( ++
 * Max will help THANKS MAX!!!!! Spasibo
 * Alt suggestion: write less code ;-)
 * git pre-review hook failed again, but now fixed (for good)
 * See Juliusz for details
 * Building consensus on templating (although some small progress) ++++
 * things are going slowly
 * timeline is not clear
 * Trevor 'owns' skin refactoring work (templating is part of it)
 * Is Tomasz involved in this? Do we need him to be coordinating?
 * need end-date and deliverables
 * what is the process for getting there

What confuses?

 * Should we be pushing Wikidata to add more API features or would that be premature?
 * When will we hire another engineer?+
 * feel like this should be a top priority
 * Team's velocity without Juliusz and Jon
 * Changing wikimedia engineering structure to be more loosey goosey "The Masterplan" (vaporware?) yeahhhhhh... who knows
 * Terry sent out a google doc about how we create engineering teams, out for consultation
 * looks like a move to form front end/back end teams
 * Balance btw UI/frontend standardization & building new features+++++
 * with limited resources, it's hard to balance ^
 * if we had timelines for template stuff, we could allocate the right portion of time
 * Maryana can help emhasize the importance of process and goals as far as they impact other work


 * Where's our secondary designer (May) been....?
 * Kaity would like to work with the team, and be the secondary designer (need to communicate with Jared) :-)
 * Action: Kaity and Moiz will clarify with Jared


 * follow-on action from previous retrospective: Juliusz attends QA review to bring up Vagrant and beta labs issues
 * follow-on action from previous retrospective: Maryana keep pushing on resourcing of editing-related work