Wikimedia Apps/Team/iOS/Engineering Review/April 3 2015

Eng. planning split

• Sprint Planning
  • Lets be dynamic/agile - no pre-determined prcentages on engineering tasks vs features vs bugs
  • Focused on delivering value - not on bucketing tasks into features and engineering tasks - and maintaining/increasing velocity
  • Tech lead represents (pre-groomed/estimated) tasks from engineering
    • Integrating relevant, high-priority tasks into sprint
    • Finding ways to gradually work in smaller "cleanup/maintenance" tasks

Source control tools debate

Feature matrix comparison?

• Features
  • supports git
  • CI integration
  • task management integration
  • notifications (IRC, email, etc.)
  • no lock-in
• Qualities
  • ease of use for viewing changes/diffs
  • allows iteration during code-review
  • community engagement
  • community support

GitHub

• Features
  • supports git
  • CI integration
  • task management integration
  • notifications (IRC, email, etc.)
  • no lock-in
• Qualities
  • ease of use for viewing changes/diffs
  • allows iteration during code-review
  • community engagement
  • community support

Differential + Arcanist

• Features
  • supports git
  • CI integration
  • task management integration
  • notifications (IRC, email, etc.)
  • no lock-in
• Qualities
  • ease of use for viewing changes/diffs
  • allows iteration during code-review
  • community engagement
  • community support

Gerrit

• Features
  • supports git
  • CI integration
  • task management integration
  • notifications (IRC, email, etc.)
  • no lock-in
• Qualities
  • ease of use for viewing changes/diffs
  • allows iteration during code-review
  • community engagement
  • community support

Proposed Migration Plan

1. Move to Github, do sprint based code drops to gerrit

2. Help drive Differential/Archanists development to support our needs.

3. When Differential/Archanists reaches MVP, we will move to those tools

Action Items

Action Item! Create template for comparison of different tools and send to team for review [BRIANG]

Action Item! Send our break-down to mobile-tech [Adam]