Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2017-04-10

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April 10, 2017

Previous Retrospective Actions

• [NATALIA] to set up a meeting with the team & Anthony & Adam DONE

Significant Events

• Offsite
• Weird Discovery reorg
• New release (+ shoutout to Michael)
• Exec. decision on syncing reading lists. +1
• API change broke the app.++

Lacked

• The ol' stable periodic tests CI
• GERRIT REVIEWER BOT (not adding folks automatically!)+

Learned

• 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

• 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

• Slightly better Gerrit branching strategies
• A more stable Mapbox
• Clarity around upstream CSS

Questions

• RxAndroid/RxJava -- let's talk about them MOVE TO NEXT RETRO
• Chrome support? Amazon device support... MOVE TO NEXT RETRO

Action Items 

• [DMITRY] send out notes/docs on reading lists / collections planning