Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-07-01

July 01, 2016

Android

Previous Retrospective Actions

• [DMITRY] Populate (roughly) sprint 86 DONE
• [MICHAEL] Ask James F about misbehaving templates PUNT

Significant Events

• Wikimania

Loved

• We came really close to finishing the feeds by the end of the quarter.
• Sprint was well-scoped. Thoughts?
• Wikimania
• Ton of work done on Feed this sprint
• Blasted the hell out of the feed.+

Lacked

• Consistency with sprint planning
• Consistency with using #Unplanned-Sprint-Work
• Do we need a more formalized SLA of sorts for the content service endpoints? (Answer might be no.)
• Automated testing. CI is fully busted now.
• User research.

Learned

• We're sharing production machines with memory intensive services, like ORES.+lol +

Longed for

• Knowing what caused us to miss the feeds MVP by the end of the quarter. Estimation? Scope change? Bumps?
• Pointing tasks as a team before committing to work on them/pulling them into the sprint.

Action Items

• [MICHAEL] Ask James F about misbehaving templates
• [BERND] Measure requests to service endpoints. Are any endpoints getting significant use by non-Android app (or content service (testing)) User-Agents, so that we don't turn off services in use? Check with Services/Analytics teams?

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IOS

July 01, 2016

Previous Retrospective Actions

• [ADAM] Look into making Corey and Monte automatic viewers for anything related to MobileFrontend BEING DEALT WITH
• [JOSH] Get Joe on ticket to get Rita access to Piwik and followup with Ops FOLLOWING UP
• [RITA] Add to planning meeting agenda: Zeplin, intro to iOS process (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ios-weekly-planning) DONE
• [JOSH] Find and give documentation to Joe regarding access to stat servers (stat1002 and stat1003) and/or event logging DONE

Significant Events

• Katherine is the new ED+100
• Wikimania +1
• Portal badge discussion
• Notifications work by Nirzar and Corey for iOS10

Worked Well

• Joe! +1
• Under the hood getting the same love the looks got this winter
• WWDC
• learning about UI testing things we can automate --- ooh fancy
• random and most read proof of concepts were made into real content endpoints!
• Austin!

Worked Poorly

• Rita -
• Release planning/testing/crash testing
• Regression Test cases are a mess
• Usability testing continues to not happen, usertesting.com is just terrible
• Point estimation is confusing to n00bs
  • See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android_story_estimation

Questions

• What to do about straggler tasks?
  • Ex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Xm1UhAQYMa6y/
  • Herald?
    • Ex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/H168

Action Items

• [JOSH] Ping ticket on Tuesday for followup with Ops (access to PIwik)
• [MAX] Earlier meetings for Rita? Investigate. Who wants Rita at meetings? Which does Rita want to attend?
• [JOSH/MAX/ADAM/DMITRY] Meet to discuss lack of QA resources, trust in shipping quality; regressions seem to be mounting
• [JOSH] Add max to meeting about automating tests, etc
• [MAX] Set up time with team to create similar to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android_story_estimation
• [MAX] Look into migrating iOS projects into subprojects of iOS Backlog
• [JOSH] Look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Xm1UhAQYMa6y/