Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2018-08-13
August 13 2018
== Previous Action Items ==
- none
== Keep ==
- Design reviews!+1+1+1
- Experimenting with play store localization and promotion in other languages +1+1+1
- Taking care of the landscape UI of the App+1
- Learning and using Kotlin in the project+1
- Major post-release analysis/reporting? (+1)+1
- Keep on being awesome, y'all+10k
== Stop ==
== Start ==
- Making Phab persist ticket status when you move tickets to another board +++
- Being better about creating tickets for new designs before grooming/planning
- Adding reply templates to the OTRS+1+1+1
- **better** reply templates
- BTW there are some in this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Oo0zEWCPXONRugyonJqltAgT3FJI4ZvRz5aQWvM1bw/edit#gid=239349797 - feel free to add/update to them too
- handling bottle-necks to major releases better?+1
- remember metrics earlier
- Trying to introduce mechanisms for A/B testing in the app with Editor-related experiments +40k+1
- Learning more about what is involved with editing on Wikipedia and immersing into editor experiences as the team starts working on more contribution features
- go to Suggestbot, try Content Translation tool, look at user pages and talk pages of prominent editors, look at talk pages for contentious articles
- also good resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Essays/Primer_for_AfD,_AfC_and_PROD
- Getting started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started
- Edit-a-thon for apps offsite?
== Questions ==
- if the poll notifications don’t give the results expected, will we still keep what is already built, in the app?
- yes, notifications will eventually be full feature in the app
- Rita is changing teams!!! what will be of us!!! 😫😭
- will be slowly ramping down from Sept through Oct
- Growth team's goals overlap with Android
- Carolyn will fill in
== Action Items ==
- Charlotte - make sure there's a list of tickets to groom/plan and email to team prior to meeting
- Lani - see who controls OTRS and look into adding templates
- Charlotte - follow up with Corey re: testing
- Lani - Add edit-a-thon to offsite schedule