Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2014-08-18

Events of Last 2 Iterations

Armageddon (7/14/2014-7/28/2014)

Notable events:

  *Kristen starts
  *Code review conversation, deciding to retrospectives every iteration

Absences:

   *none

Points carried over from previous iteration: Points attempted: 29 Points completed: 13

Brazil [n the Hood] (7/28/2014-8/18/2014)

Notable events:

  *Wikimania (three-week Sprint)
  *Adam's baby
  *Juliusz announces...

Absences:

  *Max, Kaldari, and Maryana at Wikimania for most of Sprint
  *Arthur sick 8/4-8/5

Points carried over from previous iteration: 0 Points attempted: 16 Points completed: 11

What's been working well?

• WikiTinder hacking, quick user tests + lots of enthusiasm at Wikimania
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/WikiGrok
• Kristen
• Max's HHVM gig

What hasn't worked well?

• Forgot about lightning deploy after Wikimania
  • Suggestion: if there are unusual scheduling issues around a deploy event (eg wikimania) throw up a calendar reminder
• mediawiki-vagrant has been really unreliable lately
  • Dan Duvall is involved, but not "the leader"
  • Flow guys are having issues too
  • ACTION!: escalate to RobLa [Juliusz]

• Beta labs has been very unreliable
  • This was disappointing during Wikimania
  • ACTION: Release/QA team "own" Beta labs (we think); greg-g would be a good person to raise this with [Maryana]
• We're still working on VisualEditor+1 (reated to previous two) [Maryana]
  • policy: we are only doing bug fixes now
  • There is a mobile-tech email that decribes phased handoff
  • Juliusz's departure impacts the handoff
  • See email to mobile-tech 'Followup from yesterday's mobile editing -> editing team transition chat' (https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/mobile-tech/editing/mobile-tech/oDQ2oLoqMNs/iKmJXmDcHvcJ)
  • ACTION!: Maryana sync up with James F. To check-in on handoff [Maryana]

What confuses?

• AAAARGH JUJU+1000
  • How are we going to do things with 0.6 frontend developers? :(
  • Velocity will take a hit in September/Q1 (maybe Q2)
  • ACTION: May need to rope Jon in for code review [Kaldari] DONE

• How's the hiring going?
  • Bahodir starts 9/8: ask Tomasz about how firm that is, ask if he can fly in for a week or two
  • May have some of JuJu's time (PT) from Poland, if his Mom agrees
• What's going on with the QA/browser test issues? Who will care about this when Juju leaves...?

ACTION: raise concerns to Tomasz and ask for clarity [Kristen]

Carried over from last retrospective:

ACTION! Kaldari to organize a meeting with relevant players to come up with concrete next steps on moving forward the template RFC conversation