Community Tech/Retrospectives/2016-02-29

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

• Kaldari
• Niharika
• Danny

Action items from last time

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

What has gone well?

• Focusing on the projects we can ship for end of the quarter, making great progress
• Pageviews stuff is going well - we have a good chance of making our two project goals this quarter
  • Working with MusikAnimal has been awesome
• Chat with Brian and Bartosz about Numerical sorting was productive, they are both interested in helping out
• Deadlink logging API stuff is going good.
• IA folks might lend us there dead link detection trick bag - that would be awesome but might take a little long
• In community discussions about WMF going off the rails, Community Tech cited as the 1 bright spot :)

What could have gone better?

• No Frances :(
• ED drama was a huge distraction (esp in the SF office)
  • Yeah, too much email backlog and depressing conversations on -staff
  • And some fantastic people left. :(
• Some friction between Max (Cyberpower) and IA
• TCB's watchlist work is mysterious
• We could probably be taking more advantage of TCB collaboration, although it takes some effort to manage

What else is on your mind?

• When is Bryan transitioning?
• Hackathon/GSoC -- help with managing 11+ projects?
• Could we possibly scope out and mentor a student for one of our Top 10 projects? Ryan suggested user watchlist project but he might not be available to mentor.

Deeper discussions

• GSOC mentorship
  • Probably not this year. Already working with lots of different parties and too many unknown variables.

Action Items

• Kaldari: Ping Bryan on transition date
• Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements