Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-11-20
ANDROID
editNovember 20, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- Update on Samsung devices? [ADAM] [DONE PINGED]
- Add cards for detecting regressions when pulling in CSS changes from the MW extension [Stephen] DONE
- Investigate moving emulator-dependent tests to async operation [Dmitry] DONE
- Adam ping Toby about crashes on nontrivial subset of devices [ADAM] DONE
- Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] NOT DONE
- "Stars from Midnight"
- "The Midnight Copy"
- Cancel design review [MAX] DONE
- Standups/adhoc meetings instead
- Email thread: GSOC/Outreachy -- how many can we accommodate? [MICHAEL] DONE
Loved
edit- Killin' it
- Another great patch from a volunteer+
Lacked
edit- (-(EMAIL))+++++++
- Getting the new /page/summary endpoint deployed by RB team
Learned
edit- Four Ls, three S'
- Derper understanding of Android View internals
- All about testing (JUnit + TSG)+
Longed for
edit- Spoon regression testing
- Fast CI
Top three items, from "4L's" (if short on time)
editAction Items
edit- Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry]
- Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] NOT DONE
- "Stars from Midnight"
- "The Midnight Copy"
- Email thread: How reading strategy will effect android team [KAITY] MAYBE DONE
- Investigate mentorship (and product) opportunities (related to GSOC/Outreachy/Israel) [Q3&4 PLANNING?]
iOS
editNovember 20, 2015
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- Action! Research how other teams do specs (e.g. Reading Web team) [BRIAN/JOSH] DONE
- Action! We need a standard QA rigor, engineers to design a QA acceptance criteria for all testing [TEAM] DONE (WILL REVISIT/MONITOR REGRESSION)
- Action! Groom QA column [JOSH] DONE
- Action! Assign a day of the week that we regularly release? Email thread [JOSH/TEAM] DONE
- Action! Schedule a team-wide regular planning meeting [MAX] DONE
- Action! Let's talk about how we define "done" [MAX] DONE
- New columns in Phab
Worked Well
edit- Defined "done"
- Hooray more accurate velocity measurement!
- Cleaned up QA column
- Feed loading experience and quick iteration on designs
- Phab wrangling by josh+1
- Defining Design Priorities+1
- Nirzar's design presentation++1
Worked Poorly
edit- Flakey travis builds: losing value here, need to figure out a fix
- Template
- Versioning and QA testing (bring build version number back to bottom of icon? oops we have this)
- It's still in the "about" but you don't even know if bug X is in build N. knowing the build # isn't the problem
- Regressions+
- WMF-ALL
- i10n bot?
- considering cases while desinging
Confuses Us
editTop three items, from "Worked Poorly" and "Confuses Us" (if short on time)
editActions Items
edit- Bump up QA column WIP? Evaluate WIP (email) [TEAM]
- Batch move all alpha tagged, resolved tasks in PM signoff to released column [MAX]
- Make a devops ticket for investigating travis [BRIAN]