Analytics/Roadmap/PlanningMeetings/2013 Scrum

Team Analytics scrum notes for 2013.

February 2013

Feb 28

Secretary: Kraig

• David
  • A whole lotta meetings
  • Provided Kraken context for Architecture Review meeting scheduled for Friday

• Otto (not able to attend, Ops conflict)

• Kraig
  • Working on finalizing agenda for Analytics Reboot workshop on Monday, will distribute to team today
  • Developed initial pass of questions for analytics stakeholder satisfaction survey, distributed via Google Docs to Erik Z, David S.
  • Facilitated weekly improvement meeting, wants feedback on ways to improve it

• Diederik (not able to attend, in transit)

• Evan

• Dan

Feb 25

Secretary: Otto

• David
  • Merged viewport stuff into develop.
  • Fixed bugs caused by merge (scatterplot mode, scaling, widget for fiddling with scale type).
  • Going to work on metric definition
  • Need to review canvas refactoring with Dan. (Geo-json, etc.)

• Otto
  • Kafka puppet module reviewed and +1 by Faidon.
  • Need review of Kafka Debianization
  • Spent most of Friday working on git submodule puppet module merge wrapper, going to just diff files :/

• Kraig
  • Friday's meetings
  • getting together an agenda / format for next week's workshop on Monday and Tuesday
  • going to review this with Erik + Gang.
  • Following up on experiments (Mingle, improvement work)
  • Consolodate findings with stakeholder groups.

• Diederik
  • Gave a lightning talk about Kraken and Limn
  • Refactored Geocoding + oozie + pig (YAY|!)
  • Migrated only tasks we are currently working on into Mingle.
  • Worked on Architecture review document
  • Want to put together an overview of use cases of Kraken

• Evan
  • Messed around with Category Tree
  • Trying to construct control set of articles for plagerism detection.
  • Been working on Mediawiki -> git script.

• Dan
  • Looked at David's changes for viewport canvas
  • lots of meetings
  • Going to finish tasks leftover from last sprint
  • Want to realign as team to shoot for end of March to complete promises.

Feb 26

Secretary: David

• Otto
  • Ops week! I am hanging out with Opsen!
  • Wrote an Oozie tutorial as a braindump
  • Wrapper script wrapping puppetmaster submodule creation and update. For submodules to be kosher, there needs to be a way to manually inspect the diff of the update. Submodules don't make that easy.
    • Bound the work at today -- not done? Weep & give up.

• Dan
  • Read through David's Viewport commits and merge
  • Fixed some bugs that resulted from that

• David
  • Merged feature/viewport into develop
  • Fixed ~11 bugs surfaced after the merge (ty to Dan for helping hunt)
  • Today: Close the last bugs in in the Viewport refactor
  • Add MetricDef Id to Datasource Columns

• Diederik
  • Yesterday? Blocked! Going to Starve! due to the fact that this paycheck will arrive in TO only after I am in SF!
  • Ported more Asana tasks to Mingle
  • Spoke with Kraig about the architecture review meeting on Friday
  • Started building work breakdown tree in mingle -- https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/tree?expands=81&tab=All&tree_name=Work+Breakdown+Structure

• Kraig
  • Fleshed out Improvement Ideas in Mingle
  • Setting up Mingle with Diederik
  • Weekly Analytics Sync with Erik M, RobLa (Gayle out)
  • Planned out Analytics Reboot Workshop (Mon/Tues) -- will be sharing Google Doc soon
  • Continuing to plan Reboot (esp timing)
  • Prep for Arch Review meeting (Diederik)

Feb 27

Secretary: Kraig

• Otto
  • In ops meeting on event logging, ops seems to be OK with it
  • Worked throughout meetings, got general approval from Faidon on deb, need Mark's review
  • Trying to get kafka impl reviewed, told to use git build-package standards
  • Making sure geocoding works in oozie
  • Administration stuff from Ryan F
  • Work out deploying Limn without running npm on target

• Dan
  • (travel)

• David
  • Fixed some bugs in Limn, rebooted Limn instances on Kripke
    • Permissions were wrong for /srv, causing Limn to die when trying to write browserify cache file (might have been during deploy script testing)
    • No monitoring on other instances on the same target server post-deploy -- deployer could validate, or could be part of process
  • Today
    • Close out Limn Viewport refactoring task, including whatever Dan has for it
    • Start looking at creating a software Ecosystem Map for our projects & tech

• Diederik
  • Hashed out more arch review meeting notes
  • Want to work with otto on pros/cons in notes
  • W0 Pig script

• Evan
  • onboarding new 2 contractors

• Kraig
  • Planning Scheduling for analytics reboot workshop
  • getting into more Mingle stuff, working with views etc.
    • Good to have a visual plan when discussing plans (diagrams, visuals, workflow maps, etc.)
  • Today spending time on elaborating improvement ideas.
  • Today's improvement meeting.