Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-04-14
Events of Last Iteration edit
Road Warrior Mad Max & Gather Sprint Enwiki (03/30/15-04/10/15) edit
Notable events edit
- Max leaves for maps
- Gather on en-wiki
- Maryana left us(?)
- Everyone left us. We are so lonely. And afraid. And cold.
- Quarterly Review
- Quarterly planning
- Rob's first deployment
- Sam's first deployment
- Jon Katz takes on all the things
- Sam's the new tech lead for the good ship Readership
- Anonymous editing
Absences edit
Maryana out a bunch
Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEdtQuSLdAxdGF0Unlob2MtRmZTeU4tODJXbk9rQ1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1
Previous Actions/Further Discussion edit
- Action! Baha find where OOJS documentation work is being tracked and send to list [Baha]
- Sent email to S, "work not being tacked in Phab" (officially), but Baha found some tickets; Kaldari verifies that documentation still sucks.
- OOJS crew needs to take more responsibility for adoption but people involved are distracted by VE.
- We guess no documentation will be touched until VE launch.
- Action! Jon and Sam come up with game plan for how we want to use OOJS going forward: ignore it?
- Action! Kaldari bring up with Damon
- Action! Jon and Kaldari join rapid prototyping task force and meet with JK and Moiz before next retro [Moiz] ???
- Action! Sprint kickoff emails for Gather and more verbose kickoff emails for WikiGrok [JR, KL] DONE
- Jon and Sam talking more
- JK spans project
- nice to see each team doign well and sharing our wins; we can als share fails
- Action! Draft and email proposal for WikiGrok team to move to Phab [KL] DONE
- moved to Phab
- useful for managin cross-team blockers
- Kaldari thinks downgrade from Phab but upgrade from Phab + Trello
- Action! Keep raising Vagrant bugs and weighing in on them [ALL] [DONE, Ongoing]
- Jon thinks they finally solved slowdown problems; vagrant 'get update', was instantly faster
- Action! Send email to Erik and Damon and tell them about team confusion re: search priorities next quarter [Maryana]
- Action! If Kaldari learns anything new about search in Q4 from one on one w/Damon he'll report back
What's been working well? edit
- Gather's lack of need for moderation
- cross team pollination (including apps)
- Phab has helped somewhat
- JK is a bridge
- Corey and Brian reach out
- Phabricator -- despite constant refreshing ^
- Sam tech lead! (Does that mean Kaldari wasn't doing a good job?)yesnoJK (He was great!!)<-Who wrote this?I don't know, it's a mystery
- Lots of stuff done on unstructured sprint
- Not using Vagrant
- Deploying stuff ( hopefully weekly deployments go well :) )
- pairing with Kaldari worked well
- Action! write up "gotchas!" of derploying [Kaldari]
- Deployed gather v2
- have received user feedback already
- Sam&Jon filling up JonK ""absences""
- templatessss (was that last retro?)
What hasn't worked well edit
- Plan for anonymous editing rollout
- Action! Ask Jon K to give us a post-mortem of what happened [Jon K.]
- My kanban email
- Action! Set up kanban meet/overview with TPG <-> Mobile Web [KL]
- Tech debt tech debt tech debt++++++++
- including oooojsssssui
- Laundry list of stuff: custom login page, etc.
- need better roadmap for eliminating tech debt
- Action! Sam and Jon meet to form a proposal for how to handle tech debt and feed back to team [Jon and Sam]
- WikiGrok vs. Wikidata community+++
- Action! Kaldari sum up on email
- My bandwidth+
- Support for Gather
- bikeshedding around what we're calling things
- Safeguard+
- templllatteees (adoption)
- Gather's lack of need for moderation (not enough users)
- Phab emails metadata
- yuri unstructured patch submitting?
What is confusing? edit
- Everything regarding the organization + (Animal farm?) 3 legs good 2 legs bad
- Deployment process (brittle)+++
- feel like Jerkins is fallign apart
- Is offsite going to happen?
- What is the reorg ? +++
- I mean, its all too mysterious Whooo knows?!!?oooooo Max for CEO!
- Action! You'll see!