Community Tech/Retrospectives/2016-02-01

Agenda

• Quick intro
• Action items from last time
• Individual writing to add items to the buckets
• Walk through new items briefly, for understanding
• Vote on what to discuss
• Deeper discussions (2-3?)
• Pull out action items

Participants

• Ryan
• Danny
• Frances
• Niharika

Action items from last time

• Help Frances w Turnitin task: Kaldari
  • Forget how much of this happened, but: DONE *\o/*
• Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
  • Need to do this. Kaldari will update the Gadget code on BetaLabs today.
  • Are we giving people admin accounts for demo-ing this?
• Kaldari, Niharika, Frances: Look for timeslot(s) for pair programming sessions
  • Not done, how can we prioritize this? NK: Seems harder to prioritize now that we are in the middle of wishlist ticket investigations, but I would really like to see this happen.
  • Yes, we will have to make it a conscious priority and dedicate time for it
• Danny: schedule bug triage meeting Fri, survey assessment mtg Tues after voting ends
  • Done

What's gone well?

• Lego helped with reviewing the last of the Gadgets 2.0 work which was very helpful
• We got a lot of work done! 25 points closed +1
• Frances learned a lot about developing in the ApiBase framework, shared this with Niharika, and has made good progress +1
• Stepping back to think strategically about the Internet Archive project
• Finished (just about) the turnitin work; that's all great, Earwig/Ben is great to work with, Eran fixed the upstream bug +
• PageAssessments extension development has gone fairly well without many glitches. Learnt a lot.
  • That has been great to watch.
• Jan and his team taking ownership of the Pageview stats tool (for now) leaves us free to focus on other stuff.
  • Danny: Niharika's investigation was an excellent base for Jan's team's work
• Starting to work with Internet Archive
• Making progress with Max
• Talking with TCB
  • Frances: all really great to see, a model of good collaboration in a complicated situation
• Quarterly review +1
• Frances moving down to 3rd +1

What could have gone better?

• Turnitin took forever
• Unfriendly behavior on Phabricator
• ApiBase is very frustrating (and yes, documentation, argh)
• CommTech budget is a mess, need to talk to Tony more about how to sort it out
• Documentation could have been better, as always. :) +100

What else is on your mind?

• PageAssessments goal/definition of done
• Deadlinks goal/strategies/definition of done/not wanting to commit to a really hard AI/ML problem
• General organizational integrity/values/chaos

Deeper discussions

• Unfriendly behavior on Phabricator
• PageAssessments goal/definition of done
• Deadlinks goal/strategies/definition of done/not wanting to commit to a really hard AI/ML problem
  • See [1]

Action items

• Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
• Niharika: add to documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PHP_unit_testing/Writing_unit_tests#Databases
• Frances: ops and registration for #wikimedia-commtech [DONE]
• Frances - talk casually to Andre - set up talk with Andre/Quim/James A + team
• Danny - talk to Johan re: unfriendly behavior
• Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements