Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2014-11-24
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Events of Last Iteration
[edit]I Know What You Did Last Sprint (11/10/14-11/21/14)
[edit]Notable events:
- Sam haz baby!
- Jon remote
- Rob wuz in SF
- megateam retrospective/developer backlog
- WikiGrok A/B test begins
- Joaquin first iteration remote
- Bugzilla closed
Absences:
- Rob sick ( 3 horrible days ) (11/17-19)
- Sam out (11/16-28)
Points carried over from previous iteration: 8
Points attempted: 35.5
Points completed: 41.5
Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEdtQuSLdAxdGF0Unlob2MtRmZTeU4tODJXbk9rQ1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1
Actions from last retrospective: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/1NqzIX9hXJbaY-ke6uWThKFBEj7CUweSQrw6cCR_fGcY/edit
Outstanding from Previous
[edit]- Make sure Kaldari and Joaquin sync up on WikiGrok before he leaves SF [Kaldari, Joaquin] DONE
- Give Rob access to WD dbs on tool labs [Kaldari] DONE
- keep hashing out (on email) ways to get prototypes out for testing quickly [Team]
- have the option of using user scripts now
- still don't have a concrete plan
- we have 2 derploy windows now; aren't using b/c we are A/B testing
- Table for now, revisit
- email to Timo and Antoine to figure out how we can avoid getting blocked by Jenkins and not being able to reach people about problems [Jon]
- Jon has been in touch, still not clear what to do
- have more undersanding of how it works, but not sure we want to open the can of worms
- need bigger, prioritized, fleshed out backlog for our new megateam (noted that we might need to allocate more meeting time to fleshing it out) [Maryana]
- Put together a meeting of whole mobile web team and Lydia/WikiData folk to get everyone on the same page [Maryana]
- Kaldari is feeling awesome! We're figuring out good ways to work around their codebase :P
What's been working well?
[edit]- Getting ppl from other teams do WD stuff for us
- -1 code review column - I think it should come before the 'In Development' column
- Epic amount of work being done
- Tools tools tools
- Analytics dashboards less messy
- Maryana/Kaldari asked me questions outside story estimation, helped spec out stories making estimation meeting go more smoothly.
- Being super agile & pivoting around Wikidata blockers :)
- Developers backlog +
- Collaborating with Analytics to figure out cheap suggestions
- QAing WikiGrok A/B test (hopefully)
- dry run is a good thing!
- Different focus areas e.g. tools and wikigrok
What hasn't worked well?
[edit]- REGRESSIONS!!1 / no QA it's coming next week :) +++
- Specialist Guild is starting next week!
- figure out devices and browsers that we want them to focus on
- Joaquin had some info from Nuria that we could use
- specific features/areas that have lots of regressions, let Maryana know
- Let Maryana know if you want to sit on on meeting?
- ios bugs
- bugs in A/B test for wikigrok :-/
- Browser tests as per usual.
- adjusting the test's scope or design after launching it: we did a good job but with some coordination we could have saved some kittens
- people not replying to emails e.g. developer backlog next theme. Are people getting too many? - yep
- better organize cards (labels?)
- state and speed of tests
- bugzilla closed and we can't make comments anymore+
What is confusing?
[edit]- Why is Wikipedia banned in China
- When we pull stuff from dev backlog into iterations +
- Whether Bahodir is an awesome code producing robot or a real human+
- Whether we can keep the developer backlog full of work at the rate this time is able to do stuff
- Now I dont have Trello gold how are we going to get backgrounds+
- Phrabricator +++++
- need to get used to it
- how does it fit in to our workflow?
- migration will make sense once there's code review
- Action! Set up a meeting to talk about bug triage [KRISTEN]
- How to spell Fabrikaethure
- We are a megateam now and we should tackle some mega problems...like writing mobile web using a modern web framework so we move faster and can build MODERN web things, unlike our current product +++++++++++++++
- megaproblem needs mega discussion; could use structured conversation
- can developer backlog help smooth the way?
- Goal: crush app team! :P
- Action!: Doughnut meeting, loop in Damon? Make Damon aware of problems we are facing Moiz/Kaldari set agenda, get it scheduled!