Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2017-04-10
April 10, 2017
Previous Retrospective Actions
[edit]- [NATALIA] to set up a meeting with the team & Anthony & Adam DONE
Significant Events
[edit]- Offsite
- Weird Discovery reorg
- New release (+ shoutout to Michael)
- Exec. decision on syncing reading lists. +1
- API change broke the app.++
Lacked
[edit]- The ol' stable periodic tests CI
- GERRIT REVIEWER BOT (not adding folks automatically!)+
Learned
[edit]- Unit tests are invaluable+
- Lots about caching, headers, and very strict libraries
- A little bit about upstream CSS
- people love looking at math equations in Wikipedia
Loved
[edit]- Season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire omgwat??
- Consolidation of CSS and JavaScript between iOS and Android+
- Definitely not love, but continue to find Riot.im better than your typical IRC + bouncer config (and it's free and open sarce)
- Good onsite experience ++
- More descriptive release board names make finding them in Phabricator easy peasy+
- Light at end of tunnel for much-improved offline functionality.+++
Longed For
[edit]- Slightly better Gerrit branching strategies
- A more stable Mapbox
- Clarity around upstream CSS
Questions
[edit]- RxAndroid/RxJava -- let's talk about them MOVE TO NEXT RETRO
- Chrome support? Amazon device support... MOVE TO NEXT RETRO
Action Items
[edit]- [DMITRY] send out notes/docs on reading lists / collections planning