Community Tech/Retrospectives/2016-02-01
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Agenda[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Ryan
- Danny
- Frances
- Niharika
Action items from last time[edit]
- 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?[edit]
- 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?[edit]
- 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?[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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 [1]
Action items[edit]
- 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