Community Tech/Retrospectives/2015-11-23
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Action items from last time
[edit]- Kaldari: Post retro notes
- Done
- Danny to follow up on template/broken gadgets page/board
- Done: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-tech-fixes/ Tag until after the survey.
- Kaldari: make sure Danny is in all Sprint planning meetings
- Done 4ever
- Danny to add a task for gadgets 2.0 documentation
- Done.
- Kevin: Plan another workshop
- Not done; proposed shift from "facilitator-push" to "team-pull"
- Follow up on "plan to do more stuff similarly, remotely * " (N, F)
- Stalled until Frances is back from Vienna
- Frances follow up with Quim
- Danny to talk to Siko about translation services
- We didn't need translation services for the Survey, we'll talk about the tech support translation
- Kaldari to send Danny info about translation services
- Done
What has gone well?
[edit]- Wikimania scholarship app stuff wrapped up in a day and a half nicely
- Labs project is setup for Gadgets 2.0 testing
- Talking with Kunal about Gadget 2.0 stuff went well, made some progress +++
- Survey seems to be going relatively smoothly
- CItation bot stuff is mostly wrapped up (seemed like a success)
- Gadget namespaces and repos done/merged
What could have gone better?
[edit]- Dev work has been a little slow for me this week
- Last minute planning for CL support on survey
- Integrate Turnitin task seems stuck -- picked up Nov 2, still in dev
- Translations for tech survey answers -- only Arabic so far +++
- Danny needs to pay more attention to email
What else is on your mind?
[edit]- Excited for next phase of the survey
- Labs instance? Anything else need to be done?
- Sprint size (26 points this sprint) +++
Deeper discussions
[edit]- Talking with Kunal about Gadget 2.0 stuff went well, made some progress +++
- Translations for tech survey answers -- only Arabic so far +++
- Possibly try to involve new outside translators - but they won't know Wiki jargon
- Sprint size (26 points this sprint) +++
- Do better at clearing blockers and pulling tasks from backlog when needed
- Danny suggested daily standups as a possible solution
Action Items
[edit]- Kaldari: Post retro notes
- Niharika to do code review for Wikimania scholarship app stuff
- Follow-up on translation needs with CE team: Johan
- Report about Wikisource conference: Johan (and maybe Frances)
- Help Frances w Turnitin task if she's stuck: Kaldari
- Danny: Be more attentive to email
- Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager
- better internet service for Kaldari
Retro the retro
[edit]- Went OK without Kevin (but we miss him)
- Finished early
- Everything was discussed that was useful to discuss