Android

July 17, 2015

Previous Retrospective Actions

Action! Try a standup or scrum of scrums style meeting to improve coordination with mobile web and communication across Readership overall [Kristen] DONE-ish (2nd part) ONGOING (ADAM to email engineers to ask about meeting)
Action! Make an effort to call out cross-team considerations at tech lead sync up [ADAM]
Action! Ask Jon Katz to focus on the cross-coordination aspect of his role in order to improve alignment across web and apps (eg communicating and planning what features make sense on what platform, help w/lead images) [JK] DONE
Action! Try separate platform option for retro [MAX] DONE
Action! Clarify what devices/configurations are supported in Android/strategies for support, deprecation [Stephen] IN PROGRESS
Action! Get Elena better/more devices/OSes [DMITRY] DONE
Action! Kristen/Dmitry/Bernd to continue conversation and distill out to team. [KRISTEN/DMITRY/BERND]

Action! Try some new manual QA methods? Try a "testing party" where we try to produce crashes that users are encountering [BG]
Action! Explore automated scenario & fuzz testing [BG/iOS]
Action! [ONGOING] Email thread is happening about the lack of CI. What is the priority? [ADAM]

Team discussions and contributions for java-mwapi library VCS, build system, and related topics
Happy to move to Central repo for our java-mwapi library. Less dependency on labs.
Velocity really picking up +
Got a lot of points done, at least to a QA signoff state +
Design Signoff is getting more rigrous :) and is improving quality
Material Design is starting to happen for real :):)
We are consistently top 10 in the reference category on play store
Link preview data looking great!
more data stories are being prioritized and we have some understanding of engagement
Michael and Dmitry retitle all my tickets and they write much better titles than me

Alpha builds not working+1+1
QA ++
- Two days a week probably not sustainable
If alpha build are not working, need more screenshots on tickets for design signoff

When does something go from alpha into beta (Design is unceratin about how long do we have to see something in alpha and make fixes) + +
Pitted olives (+ and - 1 simultaneously)
Results of event logging+

Alpha builds not working, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104190
- Action! Get on Yuvi's ass, press him to set up engine x [DMITRY]
QA
- Clear delineation of what two days Elena QAs (2 days for Apps, not just Android)
- Working closely with Elena when she QAs
- Action! Talk with iOS about splitting QA resources [DMITRY]
When does something go from alpha into beta (Design is unceratin about how long do we have to see something in alpha and make fixes)
- Action! Android team to discuss internally [ANDROID, then disseminate]

Action! Try a standup or scrum of scrums style meeting to improve coordination with mobile web and communication across Readership overall [Kristen] DONE-ish (2nd part) ONGOING (ADAM to email engineers to ask about meeting)
Action! Clarify what devices/configurations are supported in Android/strategies for support, deprecation [Stephen] IN PROGRESS
Action! Get more android devices [ADAM]
Action! Kristen/Dmitry/Bernd to continue conversation and distill out to team. [MAX to follow up]