Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2014-10-14
14 October 2014[edit]
Events of Last Iteration[edit]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (9/29/14-10/14/14)[edit]
Notable events:
- Sam and Rob start!
- Kristen and Baha in SF!
- Quarterly planning
- Team health check
- Indigenous People's Day 10/13
- Met w/Lydia/WikiGrokage
- New hires! [Joaquin]
Absences:
- Kristen Out 10/10
- Kaldari Dentist (new grill) 10/9
- Rob Out 10/8 (prenatal thingy)
Points carried over from previous iteration: N/A Points attempted: N/A Points completed: N/A, 10 Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEdtQuSLdAxdGF0Unlob2MtRmZTeU4tODJXbk9rQ1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1
Actions from last retrospective:
- Schedule a mid-sprint design review meeting to cut down on back-and-forth overhead [Kristen] DONE
- Set up meeting to talk about ways to get prototypes out for testing quickly in a "standalone" environment JON
- Make sure we have some tiny stories in onboarding sprints in addition to bugs KRISTEN/MARYANA
- Email mobile-tech when a lightning deploy is going to happen LIGHTNING DEPLOYERS
- Find out if WMF going to replace Sumana as tech writer (bug Robla) KALDARI
- there's a req out for senior tech writer, yay! Dev processes and core things that new developers struggle with
- Make some cards to document code BAHA
- Do some code documentation on hygiene day TEAM
- code won't get merged until documented like VE?
- Kaldari -1s if not enough documentation
- Add to Jenkins? Comment Nazi bot!
- Agree to document appropriately before submission
What's been working well?[edit]
- we ran out of actionable bugs.
- having so many more awesome people all of a sudden +1000 and a new hire!
- Being onsite and being able to work on a bug with a designer +1
- the titles of these sections
- Iteration naming
- kristen! :D +1
- Starting to get more help/attention from analytics
- Max seems more optimistic about wikidata extension (he's not running away screaming..yet). yaaaaaay -2 (from Max)
What hasn't worked well?[edit]
- onboarding (?) -1-1
- image quality onboarding task :-) :(
- Our old policy of having tech lead sign off on technical/non-user-facing bugs â esp. during a tech debt sprint & with our big new team, this doesn't scale very well. Should explore other alternatives (immediate sign-off, getting someone else to sanity check your work, self-test, etc.)
- if a bug is resolved in Bugzilla, we can consider it signed off on?
- whoever merges it signs off on it (for tech tasks)
- slow to get ui standardisation stuff merged
- we lost kaldari to lots of meetings+
- there's a lot of outstanding (!!!) code review and sign off+
- WD data model (or a lack of it) +++++
- the way we need to query WD is not performant (for production use); what we're doing right now is brittle
- data is outdated
- we have started a list of asks with input from Max and Kaldari; will have to escalate to Damon, Lila, et al MARYANA
- Maryana might pull more people in as things evolve
- we're keeping WD folk aware of our use cases
- Worst case scenario, get in to WD code? mostly back end work tho (Sam can help!)
- Moiz: concerned about lack of back-end skill on team; Joaquin is "a backender"
- Current plan: focus on demonstrating use cases to illustrate need for a robust WD
- Action! Send out list of WD issues MARYANA
- Code reviews should be done quickly otherwise rebasing will cause unnecessary work ++
- be annoyying and ping people if patch touches lots of other things
- Lots of context switching ++
- we have lots of people but not enough +2ers â somebody needs to help me reprovision all my Vagranty things so I can become one >:D +++
- Action! Help Baha become a +2er! Review my review dawg! BAHA, TEAM
- More tests
- sam's choice of colo[u]r -1+
- sam's and jon's spelling of colo[u]r and gray
- Sam & Rob not being onsite :( Come visit usssss!!! -- babies! bring the babies (or soon-to-be babies. or whatever)
- I'm coming in November yaaay I need dates
What confuses?[edit]
- what do we do with productive people when we don't have bugs +
- Are we really going to be able to have 6/7 devs working on WikiGrok at once? (for future) ++++++
- covered some of this above
- keep it light, prototypes outside of Mobile Frontend (eg mobile.js, gadgets).
- Kaldari would love to download his mind in to remote peeps brains (there's a card for this!) KALDARI
- See Jon's action above
- lack of instruction on bugs under need analysis (at least for noobs)
- wikigrok's code (and Labs) is (not)? amazing
- Does Sam ever get to sleep? No! :( :D
- Where's Dartar and Ironholds?
- whether things that happen at ferry friday realy should stay at ferry friday