Community Tech/Retrospectives/2015-11-09
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Action items from last time
[edit]- For this week, aim for smaller tasks
- Tried. At least one epic got broken down
- Kevin: Agile workshop next week (Kanban/sprint planning)
- DONE 2015-11-05, but the topic was "Estimation and Velocity"
- Follow up on plagiabot offline (on mailing list?) (Frances)
- haven't yet, still probably a good idea, but not high priority
- Write up github workflow on wiki somewhere (Meta Development subpage) (Frances)
- DONE
- Talk to Quim about GSoc commitments - Niharika will initiate email
- Done and resolved.
- Kaldari: Post retro notes
- Done
- Danny to follow up on template/broken gadgets page/board
- Not done
- Follow up on DBA question (Kaldari will investigate)
- Done - apparently Jaime Crespo is the (only) DBA now
What has gone well?
[edit]- Niharika's visit: lots of good hallway conversations, pair programming, and more!
- Yes, really great to have time with Niharika.
- It was awesome.
- Pairing on the Citation Bot API tickets worked incredibly well
- Will plan to do more stuff similarly, remotely *
- Lots of good work got done, many tickets closed.
- Special:GadgetUsage, dismissed sitenotice, CitationBot tix, broken French gadgets.
- Analysis / Sprint planning / Backlog makes more sense (to me, at least) and there's now a full backlog :)
- New Phabricator workboard organization (thanks Danny!)
- Getting info from Kunal and Timo about Gadgets 2.0
- Agile meeting about estimation was very helpful +1
- Ryan's sizing examples also helpful +2
- Sprint planning meeting went amazingly, we finished up work for the sprint kickoff meeting
- I (Ryan) got to actually do some development work (fixing dismissed notices, HotCat/VE bug, etc.)
- Still so glad to have Danny as PM! :D+1
What could have gone better?
[edit]- Plagiabot: never did get it set up, decided to put all the hacks in Copyvios Detector
- Should have pulled the plug sooner (could be noticed eariler in a standup)
- During estimation, should heavily weight whether there are installation instructions
- Team doesn't have much experience with that kind of situation
- Possibly have better contingency plans--cards with optional paths +1
- In standups, could go through the board +1
- (Possibly eng tasks/mini-milestones would help)
- We (not just the team, the entire WMF) don't have a good system for getting translations. This is a problem. I had to ask a number of favours to get our prioritized languages done.++++
- Ryan talked to Community Resources (Siko); paid resources available
- Our sprint kick-off meeting was a bit chaotic, but everything got sorted eventually (next time make sure Danny is in all Sprint planning meetings)
- Not a lot of development on my tickets due to travel mainly :( Hope to make up for it this week
- Yeah, other distractions also, personally feel pulled in many directions +++
- Gadgets 2.0 has pretty much no documentation +
- Add docs as you go, when possible (should be a task, and estimated)
What else is on your mind?
[edit]- How did our publicity blitz go (emails to mailing lists, etc.)?
- Lots of activity (many participants)
- No negative feedback
- Ongoing work on estimation sizes as we go along
Deeper discussions
[edit]We (not just the team, the entire WMF) don't have a good system for getting translations
[edit]- CE needs to take the lead
- CT can keep pushing on this
- Create detailed use cases; when/how often are they needed
- Raise with Toby; schedule a meeting?
- We have a nice system for software translations, but not for community interactions
- Ryan spent a ton of time and effort getting translations
- Suggestion: document time that was spent (by everyone--Ryan, Johan, Danny), compare it to time spent when using external service
- Danny will talk with Siko
- Ryan will send translation info to Danny
Yeah, other distractions also, personally feel pulled in many directions
[edit]- Lots going on
- Time box extraneous(sic?) tasks?
- Possible mitigations: saying no, prioritization, clumping work to minimize context switching
- Frances to talk to Quim this week, try out some time structuring
Action Items
[edit]- Kaldari: Post retro notes
- Danny to follow up on template/broken gadgets page/board
- (wasn't done last time)
- Kaldari: make sure Danny is in all Sprint planning meetings
- Danny to add a task for gadgets 2.0 documentation
- Kevin: Plan another workshop
- Follow up on "plan to do more stuff similarly, remotely * " (N, F)
- Frances follow up with Quim
- Danny to talk to Siko about translation services
- Kaldari to send Danny info about translation services