Wikimedia Apps/imported/Retrospective-January 8 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Action! Try limiting individual standups to 1 minute [Team] keep doing
• Action! Send around mobile web workboard view for bugs [Kristen] Will do at buggin' meeting [DONE]
• Action! Talk to Erik about the balance between holding back features for the sake of Comm splashes vs. being open and transparent; what is the line for what is a splashy feature vs not [DAN] DONE

Worked Well

• Onboarding Adam
  • People spending valuable time onboarding Adam +1
• dragging Brion into the office more to work in-person!
• {"en-us": "Vacation", "en-gb": "Holiday"} +1+1+1+1
• CHRISTMA777SSSSSS+1-8888
• Tweet a Fact on Android looks awesome +1+1
• Got a lot of stuff done early in the sprint :)
• Android Gallery; beta release before holidays +1
• Android Gallery with swipe left/right, zoom/pan, ...
• Dan had fun doing some code quality tweaks on Android
• New stuff based on the new iOS storage code is going really fast -- makes me feel the refactor was worth it! +100
• Dan creating EL schemasvb

Worked Poorly

• "Twerk a fact"
• Division of big lead image & conversion tasks could possibly have broken down to better work pieces, but we got em on the run now +1
  • we have a hard time breaking down large tasks, slows throughput (or perception of throughput)
  • things are more self-contained now, lessens risk of this going forward
• Analytics stuff
  • Action: talk to Toby about woes [Dan]

Confuses Us

• The role of mobile at the MediaWiki Developer Summit+1
  • there is a meet on Monday to clarify some of this (Brion attending)
  • risk of strengthening a mobile silo with a mobile track
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85151
  • meeting tomorrow to clarify what is happening in sessions
• Swift. When is it happening?
  • behind on iOS
  • busy with onboarding
• Who does code review for random patches in MediaWiki core? e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182886/ +1
  • Dan is adding Brion to patch. reachign out to Chris
• It can be a bit confusing when things like wikidata descriptions in mobileview are actually going live +1
  • Dan showed Monte where to find "release notes"
• Code signing profiles
  • Action! Document process as well as possible and possibly turn team agent in to role account [Brion -> get initial docs done by mid-Jan]
  • Team lead role

Note: Moiz is getting sucked in to mobile web stuff right now; if he seems disconnected he's sorry! Dan checked with Luis about tweet a fact stuff, he will get back to us next week on attribution-related issues; hold off on releasing to beta (couple days)