Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-04-14

Events of Last Iteration

Notable events

• Max leaves for maps
• Gather on en-wiki
• Maryana left us(?)
• Everyone left us. We are so lonely. And afraid. And cold.
• Quarterly Review
• Quarterly planning
• Rob's first deployment
• Sam's first deployment
• Jon Katz takes on all the things
• Sam's the new tech lead for the good ship Readership
• Anonymous editing

Absences

Maryana out a bunch

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

Previous Actions/Further Discussion

• Action! Baha find where OOJS documentation work is being tracked and send to list [Baha]
  • Sent email to S, "work not being tacked in Phab" (officially), but Baha found some tickets; Kaldari verifies that documentation still sucks.
  • OOJS crew needs to take more responsibility for adoption but people involved are distracted by VE.
  • We guess no documentation will be touched until VE launch.
  • Action! Jon and Sam come up with game plan for how we want to use OOJS going forward: ignore it?
  • Action! Kaldari bring up with Damon
• Action! Jon and Kaldari join rapid prototyping task force and meet with JK and Moiz before next retro [Moiz] ???
• Action! Sprint kickoff emails for Gather and more verbose kickoff emails for WikiGrok [JR, KL] DONE
  • Jon and Sam talking more
  • JK spans project
  • nice to see each team doign well and sharing our wins; we can als share fails
• Action! Draft and email proposal for WikiGrok team to move to Phab [KL] DONE
  • moved to Phab
  • useful for managin cross-team blockers
  • Kaldari thinks downgrade from Phab but upgrade from Phab + Trello
• Action! Keep raising Vagrant bugs and weighing in on them [ALL] [DONE, Ongoing]
  • Jon thinks they finally solved slowdown problems; vagrant 'get update', was instantly faster
• Action! Send email to Erik and Damon and tell them about team confusion re: search priorities next quarter [Maryana]
• Action! If Kaldari learns anything new about search in Q4 from one on one w/Damon he'll report back

What's been working well?

• Gather's lack of need for moderation
• cross team pollination (including apps)
  • Phab has helped somewhat
  • JK is a bridge
  • Corey and Brian reach out
• Phabricator -- despite constant refreshing ^
• Sam tech lead! (Does that mean Kaldari wasn't doing a good job?)yesnoJK (He was great!!)<-Who wrote this?I don't know, it's a mystery
• Lots of stuff done on unstructured sprint
• Not using Vagrant
• Deploying stuff ( hopefully weekly deployments go well :) )
  • pairing with Kaldari worked well
  • Action! write up "gotchas!" of derploying [Kaldari]
• Deployed gather v2
  • have received user feedback already
• Sam&Jon filling up JonK ""absences""
• templatessss (was that last retro?)

What hasn't worked well

• Plan for anonymous editing rollout
  • Action! Ask Jon K to give us a post-mortem of what happened [Jon K.]
• My kanban email
  • Action! Set up kanban meet/overview with TPG <-> Mobile Web [KL]
• Tech debt tech debt tech debt++++++++
  • including oooojsssssui
  • Laundry list of stuff: custom login page, etc.
  • need better roadmap for eliminating tech debt
  • Action! Sam and Jon meet to form a proposal for how to handle tech debt and feed back to team [Jon and Sam]
• WikiGrok vs. Wikidata community+++
  • Action! Kaldari sum up on email
• My bandwidth+
• Support for Gather
  • bikeshedding around what we're calling things
• Safeguard+
• templllatteees (adoption)
• Gather's lack of need for moderation (not enough users)
• Phab emails metadata
• yuri unstructured patch submitting?

What is confusing?

• Everything regarding the organization + (Animal farm?) 3 legs good 2 legs bad
• Deployment process (brittle)+++
• feel like Jerkins is fallign apart
• Is offsite going to happen?
• What is the reorg ? +++
  • I mean, its all too mysterious Whooo knows?!!?oooooo Max for CEO!
  • Action! You'll see!