The sprint K kickoff was a little sparse today -- we were down 3 out of 7 people for various reasons, but we stumbled through.
The new sprint is pretty dominated by ongoing projects held over from Sprint J. The OOJS patches are done, but there's still cards in code review from H, I and J, which need to move through now that the OOJS transition is settled.
The two ongoing projects that we want to finish this sprint are the Table of Contents and the LQT-to-Flow transition.
On LQT, Erik and Andrew have been doing a lot of work testing the conversion script, and it's looking very good -- board history is much improved today. Erik said that the main issue that still needs to get fixed is resilience -- if the process stops in the middle, there's no way to restart it to pick up from the point of failure. Erik and Andrew talked this afternoon, so for all I know maybe that's fixed already.
New stuff for sprint K -- automatic edit summaries for create topic and edit post, making "edited by Username" timestamps, and fixing the links for new topics items on Special:Notifications. We left the OfficeWiki deployment work in the backlog -- we may wait until the LQT script is ready before we move to Office.
In other news -- Matt is going to be the front-end lead from now on, and he'll be able to set the front-end direction. We should have a team conversation at some point about what tech lead / front-end lead means on our team.
Also, the deployment date will switch to Wednesday next week, hooray, so we'll have to adjust our sprint dates back a day. That is all of the interesting things that I know.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Danny Horn dhorn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Also, the deployment date will switch to Wednesday next week, hooray, so we'll have to adjust our sprint dates back a day.
I've done this. So now * Code freeze on Tuesday 11am * That week's Release Readiness Review Ranger begins trying out our codebase. * Wednesday the code gets deployed to MediaWiki.
And sprints will end on Tuesday and next will start Wednesday. I updated the Sprint K retrospective and Sprint L kickoff events.
I don't think we need to move the Flow deploy slot, currently Tuesday 2pm SF time, a day earlier. We often don't use it, and the things we do in it (deploying Flow to new wikis, DB updates, etc.) are often unrelated to the build schedule.
That is all of the interesting things that I know.
Hardly :)