Analytics/Roadmap/PlanningMeetings/2013 Scrum
Team Analytics scrum notes for 2013.
February 2013
editFeb 28
editSecretary: Kraig
- David
- A whole lotta meetings
- Provided Kraken context for Architecture Review meeting scheduled for Friday
- Otto (not able to attend, Ops conflict)
- Kraig
- Working on finalizing agenda for Analytics Reboot workshop on Monday, will distribute to team today
- Developed initial pass of questions for analytics stakeholder satisfaction survey, distributed via Google Docs to Erik Z, David S.
- Facilitated weekly improvement meeting, wants feedback on ways to improve it
- Diederik (not able to attend, in transit)
- Evan
- Dan
Feb 25
editSecretary: Otto
- David
- Merged viewport stuff into develop.
- Fixed bugs caused by merge (scatterplot mode, scaling, widget for fiddling with scale type).
- Going to work on metric definition
- Need to review canvas refactoring with Dan. (Geo-json, etc.)
- Otto
- Kafka puppet module reviewed and +1 by Faidon.
- Need review of Kafka Debianization
- Spent most of Friday working on git submodule puppet module merge wrapper, going to just diff files :/
- Kraig
- Friday's meetings
- getting together an agenda / format for next week's workshop on Monday and Tuesday
- going to review this with Erik + Gang.
- Following up on experiments (Mingle, improvement work)
- Consolodate findings with stakeholder groups.
- Diederik
- Gave a lightning talk about Kraken and Limn
- Refactored Geocoding + oozie + pig (YAY|!)
- Migrated only tasks we are currently working on into Mingle.
- Worked on Architecture review document
- Want to put together an overview of use cases of Kraken
- Evan
- Messed around with Category Tree
- Trying to construct control set of articles for plagerism detection.
- Been working on Mediawiki -> git script.
- Dan
- Looked at David's changes for viewport canvas
- lots of meetings
- Going to finish tasks leftover from last sprint
- Want to realign as team to shoot for end of March to complete promises.
Feb 26
editSecretary: David
- Otto
- Ops week! I am hanging out with Opsen!
- Wrote an Oozie tutorial as a braindump
- Wrapper script wrapping puppetmaster submodule creation and update. For submodules to be kosher, there needs to be a way to manually inspect the diff of the update. Submodules don't make that easy.
- Bound the work at today -- not done? Weep & give up.
- Dan
- Read through David's Viewport commits and merge
- Fixed some bugs that resulted from that
- David
- Merged feature/viewport into develop
- Fixed ~11 bugs surfaced after the merge (ty to Dan for helping hunt)
- Today: Close the last bugs in in the Viewport refactor
- Add MetricDef Id to Datasource Columns
- Diederik
- Yesterday? Blocked! Going to Starve! due to the fact that this paycheck will arrive in TO only after I am in SF!
- Ported more Asana tasks to Mingle
- Spoke with Kraig about the architecture review meeting on Friday
- Started building work breakdown tree in mingle -- https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/tree?expands=81&tab=All&tree_name=Work+Breakdown+Structure
- Kraig
- Fleshed out Improvement Ideas in Mingle
- Setting up Mingle with Diederik
- Weekly Analytics Sync with Erik M, RobLa (Gayle out)
- Planned out Analytics Reboot Workshop (Mon/Tues) -- will be sharing Google Doc soon
- Continuing to plan Reboot (esp timing)
- Prep for Arch Review meeting (Diederik)
Feb 27
editSecretary: Kraig
- Otto
- In ops meeting on event logging, ops seems to be OK with it
- Worked throughout meetings, got general approval from Faidon on deb, need Mark's review
- Trying to get kafka impl reviewed, told to use git build-package standards
- Making sure geocoding works in oozie
- Administration stuff from Ryan F
- Work out deploying Limn without running npm on target
- Dan
- (travel)
- David
- Fixed some bugs in Limn, rebooted Limn instances on Kripke
- Permissions were wrong for /srv, causing Limn to die when trying to write browserify cache file (might have been during deploy script testing)
- No monitoring on other instances on the same target server post-deploy -- deployer could validate, or could be part of process
- Today
- Close out Limn Viewport refactoring task, including whatever Dan has for it
- Start looking at creating a software Ecosystem Map for our projects & tech
- Fixed some bugs in Limn, rebooted Limn instances on Kripke
- Diederik
- Hashed out more arch review meeting notes
- Want to work with otto on pros/cons in notes
- W0 Pig script
- Evan
- onboarding new 2 contractors
- Kraig
- Planning Scheduling for analytics reboot workshop
- getting into more Mingle stuff, working with views etc.
- Good to have a visual plan when discussing plans (diagrams, visuals, workflow maps, etc.)
- Today spending time on elaborating improvement ideas.
- Today's improvement meeting.