Readers/Web/Team/Retrospectives/2015-03-03

Events of Last Iteration

Notable events

• Jon returns
• Gatherers move to Phab? (backlog is there at least)
• Moushira starts
• Developer backlog moves to Phab: WIP
• WikiGrok kerfluffle
• Maryana back
• Wikimania proposals due
• Jon eyeballs [notable?]
• community were more crazy than crazy norm
  • note consensus on mobile anon editing may be forthcoming, let's discuss in Q4 planning

Absences:

• Tomasz out 2/26-2/27
• Rob out 02/18 & 02/23 (partial)

Velocity

WG Points carried over from previous iteration: 8 Points attempted: 24 Points completed: 19

Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEdtQuSLdAxdGF0Unlob2MtRmZTeU4tODJXbk9rQ1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1

Collections Points carried over from previous iteration: 0 Points attempted: ? Points completed: ?

Velocity chart: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVGg5M3afd8dE9URzhwenI1QlBCQjVqTGE2Sy1iX2c&usp=gmail#gid=0

Actions from last retrospective

• Talk to Greg G about getting Gather on beta labs [MAX] DONE!
• Get some better documentation up about how to install and configure Gather for testing and code review and email team [JOAQUIN] DONE!

Outstanding actions from previous retrospectives:

• Write clarifying email to clarify expectations around OOJS UI and how it fits in with us (send him ideas) [Kaldari]
  • no movement, but Kaldari has been pushing on UI side; heard back from Prateek
  • Are there things missing from the documentation? Send examples of missing pieces to S. [Joaquin, Baha]
  • getting more urgent to figure out because some patches are geting rejected
  • Utimate question: are we going to use OOJS?
  • answering this would help us with the problem above: if we all agree that we're not going to use it yet, then fine. if it's coming, then we need a migration plan
  • Get OOJS song on Soundcloud [Joaquin]
• Schedule a meeting for the team to talk to Damon about some of the challenges we are facing as we try to "move faster and stay current"; set agenda, get it scheduled! [Moiz/Kaldari]
  • Moiz has had continuous convos with Damon and Lila; hand wavey right now. Sense that this problem is so big that it's hard to tackle
  • What is the actual problem (right now)?
    • What is our "codified strategy" for rapid prototyping/experimenting [JK and Moiz task force!]
  • Table until we start planning our next small project?
  • Gather is a good example use case for the difficulties encountered in trying to move fast

What's been working well?

• Rio+1
• Face to face communication between interested parties (as opposed to playing telephone)
• Wikigrok -> extension Smooooth

What hasn't worked well?

• Setting up new extensions, getting Gather up and running
• Loneliness :-(
• Flow breaks hhvm/zend jenkins job all the time+++
  • Talk to Antoine? Erik B?
• -2 warring / my morale wasn't it earlier?
• Estimates some of the UI stuff [Wikigrok]
• Non Gather/Wikigrok work coordination e.g. main menu redesigns+++
• The wikigrok management clusterfuck "kerfulffle"
• Didn't finish sprint properly (lots of pending work)

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MERGED 3 ITEMS:

• Getting quick (time-sensitive) reviews/looking at +++++
  • code review lagging+
• Long list of patches, no reviews. +++
  • Gerritt sux for code review, maybe Phab will help?
  • Phab is less spammy notification-wise
    • maybe tools aren't problem
  • context-switching is hard
  • lack of back end developers is problemaic here
  • be more explicit in standup about what needs review, get firmer commitment
  • note that we are doing better than before (megateam era)
  • Use metrics to drive reviewing [Jon]

• community harrassment [BAU](whats BAU business as usual KTHXBYE)++++
  • Jon is talking to Anna today, let him know if there are concerns you want him to raise
  • Concern that it's not being prioritized
  • Report backon convo with Anna [Jon]

• We're working in silos ++++
  • Trello contibutes to invisibility
  • Schedule meeting to discuss [KL]

What is confusing?

• WikiGrok quality (responses)
• OOJS
• How to get Wikigrok working now
• Php&Mw