This page contains a retro for iOS that was held a few days earlier than the date listed.

ANDROID

September 2, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

Action! Team to handle more of it's own QA, and own decision on whether or not a task needs Elena's eyes
- AB: Team could use budget to leverage specialist's guild DONE/ONGOING
Action! Let's talk about crash reporting [MAX to start an email thread] MICHAEL/DONE
Action! Weekly meeting with Design/PO to hash out sprint needs [MAX/DMITRY]

DB's bandwidth during strategy planning :(
Some of the RESTBase cards took longer than expected. For example, no localization framework in place and lots of new territory.
Max's Gmail filter's had a hard time refreshing and I missed all the gossip

Swagger models vs Schema.org models. The latter is a huge database of well define API models, the former seem to be four examples. Am I missing something? Didn't get any clarity on this in the threads / code review.
Some of the RESTBase modules seem like they me replaced with NPM packages.
Still a little confused on why we have event logging AND hive. It seems like it should be one or the other.
Feel a little in the dark about the ultimate offering provided by RESTBase API. It seems like we should make a list of the endpoints, requests, and responses we want and work backwards. Feels a little too organic and not tied into something concrete.

N/A

Action! Question for Bernd and services folks: What do we want at the end of the day, a high level structure in mind for the API and the output of the service?
- Action! Android team to meet and discuss to avoid reinventing the wheel, plan the structure [MICHAEL TO LIAISE W/SERVICES]

August 28, 2015

Action! Calculate velocity now that we have the equivalent of three 2-week sprints of data [MAX] NOT YET READY
- Clarify with team what is actually done-done, and what still needs to be addressed.
Action! Brian and Monte can come to Design Reviews [MAX]
- Carve out some time for interaction issues for this meeting.
- BG: We went!
Action! Break up Design review for iOS/Android [VIBHA/MAX] DONE
Action! Meeting notes from Design Review: why decisions were made around design [VIBHA/COREY] SKIPPED
- When we do things, how long they take.
Action! Create a new column for "In QA"? [MAX] SKIPPED
- Not gonna, since YAGNI once QA starts again & we get out of No QA Valley
Action! Email "Lack of repro steps or examples in Phab tickets/bugs" issue for email convo [MAX] DONE

BG: Visual tests!
- MURD: I've been really liking these. One just caught a bug with a pull request I submitted today in fact
BG: Monte's new IRC moniker: Murd
Got clarification on QA for AB and JK
MURD: Things with 5.0 are beginning to look more polished
BG: integrating kaity more w/ the team! +1

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

BG: Broken tests (https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/99) but Travis worked well in that it caught them!
BG: Feeling like we haven't had a "victory" in a couple months. Let's ship something soon!
Occasional "tire spinning" on tickets
BG: Dev pace (not sure what determining factor is here)? (number of new bugs in the app)
Tropical Shirt Fridays are not yet ratchet

BG: Quality in 5.0. In a nutshell, when can we start requiring tests w/ patches & being more strict w.r.t. architectures etc.
- Admittedly, probably just need to gel more as a team as we hit our stride
BG: Whether we would benefit from having more discrete tasks (e.g. recent section work)

N/A

Action! Breakdown tickets larger than 3 points.
- During Estimation, if things are looking large (5+) let's see if it can be made smaller
Action! Celebrate BETAs more!
Action! Get Corey a conductor's hat
Action! Start thinking about data-driven retros, how we can use data to make better decisions/experiments