April 8, 2016

Android

Previous Retrospective Actions

Check that we have a room for retro [MAX] DONE
Add Unplanned Sprint Work tag to release template [STEPHEN] DONE
Put an email together describing issues around difficulties of implementing database funcitonality iteratively. [STEPHEN/MAX/MICHAEL] DONE
- When you have a lot of interdependent work, how to do break that up and sprint-ize it.

hackathon+

hackathon+
- Max got to visit Temple Mount w/Dmitry
- Dead Sea pics with everyone covered in mud on their way.
Learning a lot.+
Content Service moving to hundo percent.++
Really appreciate the team's thoughtfulness of process

Try really hard to make ordinary things. Ordinary things do not require special handling. Special things can often be made into ordinary pieces. Ordinary is good. -Confucius
- Stephen is like Midas. Turns ordinary things special. Fitting for the sprint name...
- Easier to preach than to practice. Dividing things does not make them ordinary. Sometimes you just have a basket of weird things.
"Code is easier to write than to read." It is easier in the moment to write .size() == 0 but easier to read .isEmpty() later. When you write something that's easy to read, you flip the burden of clarity from the reader to yourself.

Schedule continued breakdown of feeds [MAX]
Dmitry to review iOS product documentation to get better sense of feeds priorities [DMITRY]
Make T-Shirt columns for Feeds project board [STEPHEN]

April 13, 2016

Also look into more mobile web syncs - android might be more plugged in, but its more the people who are making changes that we should sync with [MAX TO PUT IN SM/PM/PROD AGENDA] DONE
Get OTRS access for Sherah [SHERAH EMAILS ADAM] EMAILED
Get OTRS access for Rita [RITA EMAILS ADAM] EMAILED
Try to find users with Startup Issues using iTunes/Twiter/Google [Corey] IRRELEVANT
Monte to investigate OTRS feedback on startup bugs [MONTE] IRRELEVANT
Reschedule meetings for Rita (earlier) [MAX] DONE
- Accommodate Sherah's schedule, prioritize planning over estimation
Get Rita on TestFlight [JOSH] DONE
Email thread: We have punted on our design research on Modal [MAX] DONE
Email thread: Piwik Hardware approval? [MAX] DONE

Working with Apple
- Paul Marcos was very helpful with our universal links issues
- Apple is interested in further talks and collaboration
Android pinging us on mobile front end apps css extension changes
Android dev making contribs to iOS app's Wikipedia Zero handling
Working with Reets! (who looks like she is currently jamming on her ipod)+1
More contributions to the app in general (Nick did some good work) MAN FLESH

Working relationship between analytics and Reading
- Disconnect on expectations and roles
Translate wiki norms and communication paths

OTRS norms/expectations
- Continued Processing of OTRS (are we just ignoring now?)
How do we want to handle cross-tagged tasks with teams that also estimate story points?

[COREY] Look into making Corey and Monte automatic viewers for anything related to MobileFrontend
[JOSH] Forward Max and email related to relationship with Analytics
[COREY] Add Max to email (to Adam) about norms related to what people external to the team can and can't commit (e.g. translate wiki norms and communication paths)
[JOSH] Reach out to Web to see what their OTRS norms are
[TEAM] Make sure tasks that are cross-tagged on Phab have tickets specific to the team (e.g., don't work on a task that is tagged "Analytics," instead make an iOS-specific task and "track" the cross-tagged one.