Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2019-08-29

2019-08-29

Previous Action Items

• Need a volunteer to archive the last few months' retros, should take 15 min, just super boring

• Adopt a feature-specific meeting for the next major milestone [Ramsey]

• Eric to join WMDE - WMF sync meeting [Ramsey] {{done!}}

What are we doing that we should keep doing?

• Meetings with Aline+1+1000

• MAD-specific meetings+

• • without frequently working with Monte, getting feedback in this meeting (plus via Slack chats) is very important for iteration!

• Releasing lots of cool new features for the community

• Adding user-facing documentation to accompany new features as we release them (ex:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns#Structured_Data_in_Campaigns)+

What are we doing that we should stop doing?

• Running all Wikibase tests in CI?😭

• I wasn't here so I'm not well-qualified to comment, but it seems like there was some stuff added right at the last minute for campaigns to try and be ready for WLM ...+1

• • +1 We should be flexible and willing to move quick, but try to avoid if at all possible (risk involved in circumventing normal (user testing, deployment, development, ...) processes)

• • +1 The only way i was okay with what we went with was because it was extremely scoped and we're treating it as an experiment

What aren't we doing that we should we start doing?

• Cont'd from prior retro: Naming ourselves in Etherpad (done, except for one suspiciously fictional name)

• Testing has fallen to the wayside a little bit in the race to get features launched (I am as guilty of this as anyone) +1

• I'm not really sure we have a process for refactoring and deciding what refactoring to do - do we need one?

• In the vein of user docs (as above), perhaps we should focus equally on dev documentation in future/now/yesterday +1

Action Items

• Adopt a feature-specific meeting for the next major milestone [Ramsey]

• [Michael] Add wikibase client and repo as dependencies in extension.json and delete the configured dependency on wikibase in the integration/config repository

• • James was right, this won't work, at least until https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88258 is resolved. --MDH

• Max to send to email list

• • Testing has fallen to the wayside a little bit in the race to get features launched (I am as guilty of this as anyone)

• • I'm not really sure we have a process for refactoring and deciding what refactoring to do - do we need one?

• • In the vein of user docs (as above), perhaps we should focus equally on dev documentation in future/now/yesterday