Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-02-17

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Events of Last Iteration[edit]

Napoleon Dynamite (02/02/15-02/13/15)[edit]

Notable events:

  • Existential extensions questions

Absences:

  • No one!?!?

WG Points carried over from previous iteration: 21 Points attempted: 44 Points completed: 11

Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEdtQuSLdAxdGF0Unlob2MtRmZTeU4tODJXbk9rQ1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1

Collections Points carried over from previous iteration: N/A Points attempted: 18! Points completed: 18!

Actions from last retrospective:

  • Bring up CentralAuth bugs resurfacing at scrum of scrums [KALDARI]
    • Kaldari worked a bunch on this, still a can of worms
  • Write clarifying email to clarify expectations around OOJS UI and how it fits in with us (send him ideas) [Kaldari]
    • status unknown

Outstanding actions from last last last last retrospective:

  • Schedule a meeting for the team to talk to Damon about some of the challenges we are facing as we try to "move faster and stay current"; set agenda, get it scheduled! [Moiz/Kaldari]
    • status unknown

What's been working well?[edit]

  • A new volunteer+
    • codezee? yep
    • there might be a new volunteer for Apps too!
  • Github
  • 2 person dev team ( or 1 person 24 hours a day )
  • Florian submitting patches like crazy
    • on the flip side, requires review time (but that's OK!, and his patches are good!)
  • WG team communicated issues with submitting to Wikidata and then discussed 'em quickly
  • My 20% time :)
    • what did you do? Working on latin-cyrillic-latin conversion script for the Uzbek language (core).
  • Throwing shit at fan about Minerva as The Responsive Skin for MW
    • check out the the thread on wikitech-l ("Boil the ocean...")
    • this work should be PMed?

What hasn't worked well?[edit]

  • The process for getting everything up on an extension is horribly manual. +
    • Getting Gather on beta labs
      • Rob has patches languishing in Gerritt
      • Greg G is really da man for this
      • Action! Talk to Greg G about these patches [MAX]
    • Still on it after 2 weeks (no signoff, no tests, no browser tests, no qunit tests, no grunt, no js/css structure or resourceloader, no jenkins verification, and we just got bots on irc and stuff like that)
      • ++visibility!

What is confusing?[edit]

  • How to install and configure Gather for testing and code review
    • Require Gather.php, so far no config needed
    • Action! Get some better documentation up and email [JOAQUIN]
      • Bootstrap script if possible?
  • OOJS
    • Joakino spent 20% time on OOJS/OOJS UI; bad use of time ;-)
    • poor/no documentation and confusing
    • don't understand why we would use it (Collections team)?
    • WG team has been using, Baha learned from Trevor; JS code got bigger, but easier to debug
    • We're being pushed to adopt w/o good support: education, documentation, expectations...
    • See action above assigned to Kaldari (note Kaldari's action related to css, this is more about javascript)
  • Throwing shit at fan about Minerva as The Responsive Skin for MW+
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