Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2019-05-23


2019-05-23

Previous Action Items

  • [Dropped/partly done] Mark + Ramsey: Create an "Acceptance threshold/qa checklist"
  • Eric - Create testing roadmap as an example of how to document architecture (this is will be an outcome of testing meeting now) Eric: Willing to write this after meeting
    • create Wiki page on MediaWiki for this
    • And https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/48/
  • [Done] Max to add to offsite sched: tiny celebration of recently completed work (incl statements)
  • [Demoted to reminder] Devs: Remove MM-Current-Work tix that won't get done/worked-on any time soon
  • [Done] Max: Add "Brady Bunch" conv to email list
  • [In progress-ish] Mark to figure out how to use qa checklist to test a release

What are we doing that we should keep doing?

  • Releases! +1+1+1+3.14159
  • Carving out time for self-care (looks at Ramsey) [It's just a wedding...in Vegas]
  • Adding URLs to QA steps so that Edward isn't lost when he reads the QA steps.
  • Keep dumping screenshots of work-in-progress in tickets[There was a ticket I worked on that had an animated gif, that was fantastic!] [those are usually from me ^_^]

What are we doing that we should stop doing?

What aren't we doing that we should we start doing?

  • Let's make sure our documentation (README / config instructions) is up to date after latest release
  • Sharing accomplishments with the rest of the org/other teams? (ties into celebration?)
  • Resolving tasks as the work is completed
  • Can we have an SDC tracker to see what our work led to?


Action Items

  • Eric to go over and document "Create testing roadmap as an example of how to document architecture (this is will be an outcome of testing meeting"
  • Make Matthias make sure our documentation (README / config instructions) is up to date after latest release (j/k all devs)