Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2015-12-18

ANDROID

December 18, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Send email about learnings from Proguard / Support lib / MapView [Dmitry] DRAFTED
• Production-release-cadence digest of funny/positive Play Store feedback [Dmitry] DONE
  • "Stars from Midnight"
  • "The Midnight Copy"

Loved

• We r featured
• Best of 2015
• Donations coming in
• Got done with scheduled sprint work early +1
  • Got the crashes taken care of ASAP as planned+
• More native views.+
• Low crash numbers.+

Lacked

• Max got tied up with TPG Strategy and iOS beta

Learned

• RESTBase has a nice dashboard!

Longed for

• ...a resource-leak-free app
• Spoon tests.
• Stable instrumentation tests.
• More plain JUnit tests.
• More CI automation (release builds, localization updates, ...)
• PNG crushing working properly on my OS X laptops

iOS

December 22, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

• Design to rejigger design meeting to squeeze in estimation [MAX TO EMAIL] DONE
• Email thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [MAX TO EMAIL] PUNT

Worked Well

• (continuing to work well) Phab tags (beta/prod/etc.)
• Estimation/sync/regroup/rally meeting we had last week to triage to focus on beta
• subtasks for RTL "epic"
• We got to the lightning talks with an app!
• Responsiveness!
• nobody attacked us on mobile-l or Talk page (yet+)
  • DON'T JINX IT+1
• this list of worked well items
• bugs are going away

Worked Poorly

• Beta Review & iTC shutdown—we might've missed the pre-xmas boat
  • Suggested action: setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our ducks in a row

Confuses Us

• Now that the beta is out, what will our regular release cadence be?
  • Will we have alpha, beta, and production apps, a la Android?
    • If so, how will we get things from one app to the other?
• ET: where I can check the stuff in QA column?

Action Items

• Send out thread about subtasks vs. checklists vs. breaking up tasks [NIRZAR]
• Figure out how to use release tags going forward [MAX/JOSH]
• Setup a calendar event to notify us 1 & 2 months before so we can have our iTC ducks in a row [BRIAN]