Community Tech/Retrospectives/2016-02-29
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Agenda
[edit]- Quick intro
- Action items from last time
- Individual writing to add items to the buckets
- Walk through new items briefly, for understanding
- Vote on what to discuss
- Deeper discussions (2-3?)
- Pull out action items
Participants
[edit]- Kaldari
- Niharika
- Danny
Action items from last time
[edit]- Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
- Done. Got feedback but project deprioritized at the moment.
- Niharika: add to documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PHP_unit_testing/Writing_unit_tests#Databases
- Done.
- Frances: ops and registration for #wikimedia-commtech [DONE]
- Done.
- Frances - talk casually to Andre - set up talk with Andre/Quim/James A + team
- Done. Ryan still has one scheduled with Maggie and JamesA.
- Danny - talk to Johan re: unfriendly behavior
- Done.
- Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements
- Outstanding.
What has gone well?
[edit]- Focusing on the projects we can ship for end of the quarter, making great progress
- Pageviews stuff is going well - we have a good chance of making our two project goals this quarter
- Working with MusikAnimal has been awesome
- Chat with Brian and Bartosz about Numerical sorting was productive, they are both interested in helping out
- Deadlink logging API stuff is going good.
- IA folks might lend us there dead link detection trick bag - that would be awesome but might take a little long
- In community discussions about WMF going off the rails, Community Tech cited as the 1 bright spot :)
What could have gone better?
[edit]- No Frances :(
- ED drama was a huge distraction (esp in the SF office)
- Yeah, too much email backlog and depressing conversations on -staff
- And some fantastic people left. :(
- Some friction between Max (Cyberpower) and IA
- TCB's watchlist work is mysterious
- We could probably be taking more advantage of TCB collaboration, although it takes some effort to manage
What else is on your mind?
[edit]- When is Bryan transitioning?
- Hackathon/GSoC -- help with managing 11+ projects?
- Could we possibly scope out and mentor a student for one of our Top 10 projects? Ryan suggested user watchlist project but he might not be available to mentor.
Deeper discussions
[edit]- GSOC mentorship
- Probably not this year. Already working with lots of different parties and too many unknown variables.
Action Items
[edit]- Kaldari: Ping Bryan on transition date
- Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements