Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-12-02

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December 2, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

• [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume  TO BE CARRIED OVER
• [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests DONE
• [NATALIA] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling) DONE++
• [STEPHEN] Create a tech debt Phab ticket for Mocked service tests DONE

Learned

• More about screenshot testing
• Testing against fixed data leads to more stable test executions.+
• The immense power+ and prestige of TextViews: HTML subset and spannables support
  • Now that's what I call Real Ultimate Power!
• How to checkout stuff in gerrit properly and view on Genymotion! 

Loved

• Documented coding conventions!
  • Needs to be more of a team convention
• Huge emphasis on testing
• New meeting schedule+ +1
• Announcements in feed (remote-controllable by us)+
• Designer using Gerrit+AS 
• Good designer support in phab (checking tickets, making tickets)

Longed For

• Probably would be better to talk about test strategies more as a team in hangout, not just code review
• Less flaky CI
• Less flaky service tests
• A way to trigger the periodic test build on demand from Gerrit, a la 'recheck' or 'check experimental'+

Questions

• Phab ticketing with Design?
  • Addition of a 'Ready for development' column
  • Does this mean 'To do' should be something else? "Tasks from Product Backlog" is called in iOS, Reading web has "Needs analysis" and "To do"
  • Discuss adding a 'Blocked or waiting' column 
  • Design sign-off tickets
  • Open forum on any other aspects to better faciliate working with Design on Phab

• Asynchronous TSG check-in in the face of rescheduled meetings?+
  • Asynchronous e-mail/IRC check-in with TSG
  • A few days notice if team wants TSG in a meeting

• Kanban check-in - how's it going?

• Rescheduling - any changes?
• Moving to Differential code reviews -- a priority or not?+

Action Items

• [DMITRY] Get the beta done re "[MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume"
• [MICHAEL] Get password for true crypt volume
• [STEPHEN] add meeting to talk more about testing and conventions
• [STEPHEN] add spike to investigate mock web server / localhost / best practice for mocked service tests and update mock service task
• [NATALIA] to add a new "Blocked/Waiting" column
• [NATALIA] to facilitate a discussion about items in the "Questions" sections that weren't discussed (e-mail)

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