Wikimedia Apps/imported/Retrospective-May 1 2014
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Worked well
[edit]- beta/alpha releases went out a lot!
- Android alpha one almost every day!
- Figured out the Android alpha install people were having (yay Howie!)
- Fanatic testers have discovered the Wikipedia app! (Liangent in particular)
- iOS testflight releases
- Faster iteration on Android
- Addition of *ana as PMs! +1
- Good PM interaction
- Got icons :D
- wikifont! (iOS only!)
- Dmitry onboarding ;) +1
- Getting up to speed with dev tools and Gerrit
- Getting to actually make product decisions is fun
- EventLogging design mostly sorted out, lots of back and forth with Analytics (android only!)
- Team being slightly out of sync
Worked poorly
[edit]- Communication / Interaction with Design (+)() [Maryana]
- Somebody stole our Kenan
- Data migration not quite done, balance of complexity turned out to be simpler on the extraction and harder on the import than was expected
- We should probably whittle Saved Pages down a bit. Me and dbrant have started on patches. +++ [Yuvi]
- Alpha releases for some people didn't work (Howie discovered the fix)
- document the code better :D+
Confuses Us
[edit]- How often should I be signing off on things?
- Release timeline. Beginning of sprint we mentioned android to beta at end of sprint and then no mention after ++ [Maryana]
- How easy is it to push out test builds? Can we do it more often without dev velocity taking a hit? (note is different on Android and iOS)
- Are iOS & Android siloed? If a bug is reported on Android, does somebody check to see if it's happening on iOS & vice versa?+
- experiment with bug-report built in feature on ios [mhurd]
- Not enough comments and discussion on the design trello board+++ [team]