Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-06-08
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Undercover Brother/Voyage of the Damned & Gather Sprints (05/11/15-05/22/15 & 05/25/15-06/05/15)
Notable events[edit]
- hackathon!
Absences[edit]
- Sam Disney adventure
- Much hackathon absence: 2015_lyon_hackathon_related_comp_n_vacation.pdf
- Rob paternity leave
Velocity[edit]
- Gatherers: ♡
- WikiGroknards: 18/21
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WhuTM1UBAVwFYJf6C6Rrd_INYlzKTa1oCSQnpvpougg/edit#gid=2
Previous Actions[edit]
- Action! would be good to have at least one day on testwiki before en-wiki (push to group 0 instead of all wikis)/ would be good to then do something with the code that's there; ask people to do dedicated QA testing during this period [Rob/Kaldari] DONE
- Action! Make sure every Tues afternoon someone takes look at test-wiki; (Jon is making a phab task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101865) [ALL]
- Action! Run script that generates changelog since last derploy (and send to mailing list)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100296 [ONGOING, part of sprint planning]
- Action! every Monday is "clear the ready for signoff" day (but let's strive to keep it clear throughout the sprint!); ping JK or signer-offer when card moves to signoff NOT DONE
- Action! put WIP limits on Code Review, Signoff [TEAM]
- Action! explore new branching strategy (email): what about using master branch for done tasks, and dev branch for betalabs and signoff tasks [Joaquin] [Jon is gonna jump in the ring]
- Action! make failing browser tests send to mobile-l [SAM] DONE (sent to reading list)
- Jon worried he's still the only one looking at stuff
- Jon fwd's flaky tests to Dan D.; getting better!
- There is an EPIC in progress, will check in w/Sam when he returns
What's been working well?[edit]
- A lot of code review to clear the backlog
- Guerilla meetings with Google
- Time given to deal with code debt(more like using the confusion to try to tackle tech debt)
- priorities are confusing though; would like to schedule more dev-focused stuff
- Cleaning up alpha, recognising the failures of stuff lingering in beta/alpha
- Lyon was great for letting of steam and drinking beers and unusual brandy things
- Support from QA
- Dan D has been awesome
What hasn't worked well[edit]
- Q1 planning without meaning.
- Product support
- Sam is product support for now
- Needs documentation (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_Web/Team has Kaity working on VE :-))
- MyTeam morale
- not sure what goals are
- feel like we're spinning our wheels
- Off-site approval process/communication
- 'Emergency' requests from search and other teams being dumped on us outside planning
- Meeting attendance / late attendance
- code review
What is confusing[edit]
- The purpose/meaning/vision of readership +
- Team members in&outs.
- When is people going&leaving mexico.
- Building lead images
Top issue: Readership issues-
- JH: transparency seems lacking: we want to know where Toby is being pulled? What is actually going on?
- JR: expectations need to be set: when can we expect to have a clear vision?
- RK: desktop/mobile web feels important, but it also feels like we're the forgotten team (the 1%)
- Baha: (this may be an org-wide feeling right now, not just our team)
Action! Be patient :-)
- JR: engineers join to tackle interesting problems, not tackling code debt; it's demoralizing. Google convo felt modern and exciting. Code debt doesn't get me up in the AM
- Action! Maybe a team half-day hackathon to play with new technologies, hack on cool stuff [KL]
- Action! Figure out Readership offsite!!!!!!! Miami/New Orleans! in September (i'm holidays on september)I thought Euro holidays were august? [KL]