Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-01-20

ANDROID

January 15, 2016

Significant Events

• All hands/Dev summit
• Bowling
• Holidays
• MCS pre-generation started (main pages get stale without it)
• Wiktionary patches merged!+++
• Grooming kicked off and becoming regular. Triage column geting shorter. :)
• Android piloting Phlogiston

Loved

• MediaWiki, etc (non-Android) tech talk
• all hands +1+
  • Meeting people face-to-face for the first time +
    • Giving Stephen an idea of how tall everyone really is -+ (I'm actually standing right now, can you tell?)
• working with people IRL for a bit

Lacked

• bowling skills of my youth
• action items from Dev Summit
• Dedicated QA resources
• Still struggling to meet our sprint-to-sprint commitments
  • kan to the ban

Learned

• Dmitry is a wicked, vengeance-driven+1 bowler
• Gather might be lacking some features for saved pages. Still to be confirmed. Gather is currently only on enwiki and hewiki, plus en.wikivoyage.

I doubt it supports cross-wiki lists. ( (+-1)

Longed for

• Releases each iteration/sprint
  • -1 not until this is better automated
• More face-time with Android IRL+

Action Items

• Need further discussions with Gather folks on how to proceed, email thread [BERND/DMITRY]

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iOS

January 20, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR] NOT DONE
• Figure out how to use release tags going forward [MAX/JOSH] DONE
• Setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our iTC ducks in a row [BRIAN] DONE

Significant Events

• All hands/Dev summit
  • IRL planning/sandwich/navigation clarity/bowling
    • Sandwhich meeting photo: http://1.images.comedycentral.com/images/shows/kroll_show/video/krollshow_201_too_much_tuna_640x360.jpg?width=0&height=0&crop=true
• Sherah joined
• Mass beta MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
• Quarterly Review

Worked Well

• Navigation meetings at dev summit +1
• Monte's weekend projects+1
• Video! NEEDZ MOAR GOTH
• Bowling+1+1
• Big sandwich
• Cap on featureset for 5.0 production
  • i.e. we defined one—sticking to it will be the challenge
• Feedback survey+1

Worked Poorly

• Lacking #Easy-tagged tasks in our backlog
  • We have a person willing to contribute 3-4hrs/wk but we don't know what they should work on
• Communication w/ services/infra team about AuthManager changes
• Project management and planning bandwidth(+BG)
  • What are the bottlenecks & time-sinks?
  • Anything we can do to self-organize and give you space to think at a higher-level?

Confuses Us

• State and category columns on one board
  • Resolving tasks that don't go through flow
  • BG: Only concern is order of operations: prototyping/design -> acceptance criteria -> estimation -> dev
• Connecting our planning meeting aspirations with Phab reality
• We should talk QA changes

Action Items

• iOS to get their own retro etherpad [MAX]
• Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR]
• Note for next retro: Do we need to chat with Adam B about communication around services/infra team re: AuthManager
• Discuss process moving forward for boards, planning, etc [MAX/JOSH/TEAM]
• Email thread to discuss "State and category columns on one board" [MAX]
• Note for next retro: Are we capturing our decision-making in task form? Phab execution, etc?
  • ACTION: Schedule time after planning meetings to capture discussions into actions [MAX/JOSH]