Mobile web team retrospective notes up - Mobile-l

Jon Robson

18 Mar 18 Mar

5:59 p.m.

During the retrospective the team decided to trial a more extreme approach to code review where we stop people from submitting new code whilst there is existing unreviewed code. Following up from this I wrote a patch to introduce a pre-review hook that stops you submitting code until existing code is reviewed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119327 It might seem a bit harsh but I think it's worth enforcing and seeing how we get on with it. We can always make it less strict or turn it off if we find it doesn't help us... On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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The mobile web team ran a retrospective for its last iteration. I'm sending it to mobile-l in case other teams out there are interested in our working practices. In particular we tried out a "One word agile retrospective" for a change. You can find the notes here [1]: Also I moved a few of the previous retrospectives to sub pages of this page [2] to make them easier in future to find in future. Not sure if the app team also wants to do this? [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering/Retrospectives/… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering/Retrospectives

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Arthur Richards

18 Mar 18 Mar

6:10 p.m.

Thanks Jon - looks like this was a great retrospective. I just took a read through the notes to catch up but the formatting may have gone a bit wonky if it was cut/pasted from an etherpad - I think line breaks may have gone missing. Can you take a quick pass through the notes to clean it up? Otherwise bits of it read like an epic run-on sentence and it's hard to tell what's going on :) On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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The mobile web team ran a retrospective for its last iteration. I'm sending it to mobile-l in case other teams out there are interested in our working practices. In particular we tried out a "One word agile retrospective" for a change. You can find the notes here [1]: Also I moved a few of the previous retrospectives to sub pages of this page [2] to make them easier in future to find in future. Not sure if the app team also wants to do this? [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering/Retrospectives/… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering/Retrospectives _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

-- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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arichards

6:56 p.m.

Cool, makes much more sense now - thank you :D On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Added some pre tags. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Thanks Jon - looks like this was a great retrospective. I just took a

read

through the notes to catch up but the formatting may have gone a bit

wonky

if it was cut/pasted from an etherpad - I think line breaks may have gone missing. Can you take a quick pass through the notes to clean it up? Otherwise bits of it read like an epic run-on sentence and it's hard to

tell

what's going on :) On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org>

wrote:

> > The mobile web team ran a retrospective for its last iteration. I'm > sending it to mobile-l in case other teams out there are interested in > our working practices. In particular we tried out a "One word agile > retrospective" for a change. > > You can find the notes here [1]: > > Also I moved a few of the previous retrospectives to sub pages of this > page [2] to make them easier in future to find in future. Not sure if > the app team also wants to do this? > > > [1] >

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering/Retrospectives/…

> [2] >

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering/Retrospectives

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