Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-11-20

ANDROID

November 20, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Update on Samsung devices? [ADAM] [DONE PINGED]
• Add cards for detecting regressions when pulling in CSS changes from the MW extension [Stephen] DONE
• Investigate moving emulator-dependent tests to async operation [Dmitry] DONE
• Adam ping Toby about crashes on nontrivial subset of devices [ADAM] DONE
• Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] NOT DONE
  • "Stars from Midnight"
  • "The Midnight Copy"
• Cancel design review [MAX] DONE
  • Standups/adhoc meetings instead
• Email thread: GSOC/Outreachy -- how many can we accommodate? [MICHAEL] DONE

Loved

• Killin' it
• Another great patch from a volunteer+

Lacked

• (-(EMAIL))+++++++
• Getting the new /page/summary endpoint deployed by RB team

Learned

• Four Ls, three S'
• Derper understanding of Android View internals
• All about testing (JUnit + TSG)+

Longed for

• Spoon regression testing
• Fast CI

Action Items

• Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry]
• Weekly digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] NOT DONE
  • "Stars from Midnight"
  • "The Midnight Copy"
• Email thread: How reading strategy will effect android team [KAITY] MAYBE DONE
• Investigate mentorship (and product) opportunities (related to GSOC/Outreachy/Israel) [Q3&4 PLANNING?]

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iOS

November 20, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Action! Research how other teams do specs (e.g. Reading Web team) [BRIAN/JOSH] DONE
• Action! We need a standard QA rigor, engineers to design a QA acceptance criteria for all testing [TEAM] DONE (WILL REVISIT/MONITOR REGRESSION)
• Action! Groom QA column [JOSH] DONE
• Action! Assign a day of the week that we regularly release? Email thread [JOSH/TEAM] DONE
• Action! Schedule a team-wide regular planning meeting [MAX] DONE
• Action! Let's talk about how we define "done" [MAX] DONE
  • New columns in Phab

Worked Well

• Defined "done"
  • Hooray more accurate velocity measurement!
• Cleaned up QA column
• Feed loading experience and quick iteration on designs
• Phab wrangling by josh+1
• Defining Design Priorities+1
• Nirzar's design presentation++1

Worked Poorly

• Flakey travis builds: losing value here, need to figure out a fix
• Template
• Versioning and QA testing (bring build version number back to bottom of icon? oops we have this)
  • It's still in the "about" but you don't even know if bug X is in build N. knowing the build # isn't the problem
• Regressions+
• WMF-ALL
• i10n bot?
• considering cases while desinging

Actions Items

• Bump up QA column WIP? Evaluate WIP (email) [TEAM]
• Batch move all alpha tagged, resolved tasks in PM signoff to released column [MAX]
• Make a devops ticket for investigating travis [BRIAN]