March 25, 2016

Android

Previous Retrospective Actions

Ping Brad Jorsch about clarity on login/account API changes [MICHAEL] DONE
- Wait until we've spiked
Let's chat about how Kanban might change things if we used it instead of Scrum [MAX/STEPHEN] DONE
Make a phab task to investigate what was going on with wikitionary 404s [MICHAEL] DONE

Max and Dmitry talked with Joel about Q4 planning and epic estimation
New prod release.+
- New permission doesn't seem to be too poorly received ;)
- Very few crashes.
End of Q3. Tech lead rotation forthcoming!
2% Content Service rollout!!!!+
A few sporadic volunteer contributions. We can never seem to hold on to volunteers very long.
- Nicolas's Commons app
Phantom content service flapping (bad)
Started tracking beta releases as pointed cards
Experimenting with "Unplanned Sprint Work" tag

Seeing reading list UI patch in action+
TSG on top of stuff+
Laying out the feeds epics, and using rough estimation, made it really clear that scope for Q4 goals needed to be adjusted
Keeping docs up to date (specifically the Content Service deployment docs).

A resolution to T126753: Build a background service that implements a queue for saving pages to disk.
Redlink hiding in the service
Make sure to plan for front-end work in sprint
UI work. Small work.

Check that we have a room for retro [MAX]
Add Unplanned Sprint Work tag to release template [STEPHEN]
Put an email together describing issues around difficulties of implementing database funcitonality iteratively. [STEPHEN/MAX/MICHAEL]
- When you have a lot of interdependent work, how to do break that up and sprint-ize it.

Investigate more regular touchpoint with Android (email) [MAX] DONE
- Maybe one standup per week is combined
- Also look into more mobile web syncs - android might be more plugged in, but its more the people who are making changes that we should sync with
Monte needs a repeating do-OTRS invite [MAX] DONE
Nzr needs his own repeating do-OTRS invite [MAX] DONE
Week of 21st, need to schedule brownbag [MAX/JOSH] DONE

remaining fixes still needed
TOTAL πWIK MELTDOWN!
Analytics infruhstructure and mis-alignment - no event data to look at :(
Slow dev progress (understanbly so)
deep debilitating depression about Brian leaving us, more medications and/or alcohols
- related discombobulation of momentum/team dynamics
deep debilitating depression about Elena leaving us
Missed some bugs in 5.0.1
Concerned about late meetings for Rita
Xcode update broke some bits and stuff
Testflight doesn't want Rita

Also look into more mobile web syncs - android might be more plugged in, but its more the people who are making changes that we should sync with [MAX TO PUT IN SM/PM/PROD AGENDA]
Get OTRS access for Sherah [SHERAH EMAILS ADAM]
Get OTRS access for Rita [RITA EMAILS ADAM]
Try to find users with Startup Issues using iTunes/Twiter/Google [Corey]
Monte to investigate OTRS feedback on startup bugs [MONTE]
Reschedule meetings for Rita (earlier) [MAX]
- Accommodate Sherah's schedule, prioritize planning over estimation
Get Rita on TestFlight [JOSH]
Email thread: We have punted on our design research on Modal [MAX]
Email thread: Piwik Hardware approval? [MAX]