Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2019-08-15
2019-08-15
Previous Action Items
- Possibly review some action items from offsite doc
What are we doing that we should keep doing?
- Workin' fast, kickin' ass, and takin' names
- Sharing screens/work progress, it enables quick iteration
- GIF showing the interaction of elements
- Really great to hop on a call almost every day
- It's pushiing each other to do better work :)
- Sharing rougher work earlier and more often
- Being willing to just jump on a call and work through something
- Feature specific meetings? I do dig our MAD sessions +1 +1
- MAD sessions?
- Machine-aided depicts
- High-level discussion of how/why we are building new features before we dive into them is great +1
What are we doing that we should stop doing?
What aren't we doing that we should we start doing?
- We need a direct line to Wikibase/WMDE folks or at least a better process to get in touch with them when things go off the rails++
- During Other Statements release process we saw some new bugs surface that had to do with points of interaction btw us and Wikibase
- multiple UBN/train blocking issues came up; due to time zone and holiday schedules I felt like I was one of the only devs around to deal with these urgent tickets and had no idea what to do; this was pretty stressful
- would be good to have some kind of regular check-ins with wikibase or to meet periodically to better understand how our projects inter-relate
- (we do have a meeting for that ^_^) Which one? maybe I have just never joined it [Wikidata & WMF sync, every 2 weeks]
- I don't know any of the Wikibase devs personally and did not feel comfortable just randomly shooting "please help" messages
- => You can also ping folks on IRC even if you don't know them. They are usually nice
- => Amanda to send warning message to WMDE for next big release
- Naming ourselves in Etherpad [new Etherpad, who dis?]
Action Items
- Need a volunteer to archive the last few months' retros, should take 15 min, just super boring
- Adopt a feature-specific meeting for the next major milestone [Ramsey]
- Eric to join WMDE - WMF sync meeting [Ramsey] {{done!}}