Time/Place
- Friday, Sept 27, 2019
- Time: 9:30 am Eastern Daylight Time US (UTC-4)
- Audio/Video Conference Link: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/fedora
- Dial-in:
+1 408 638 0968
+1 646 876 9923
+1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID:
812 835 3771
- Dial-in:
Join fedora-project.slack.com on the "sprints" channel
Attendees
- Danny Bernstein
- Andrew Woods
- Ben Pennell
- Peter Eichman
- Jared Whiklo
- Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed
- Aaron Birkland
- Youn Noh
- Dan Field
- Jenny A'Brook
- Richard Williams
- Michal Dulinski
- Remigiusz Malessa
Agenda
- Note taker?
- Retrospective
- What worked
- What did you find challenging
- what you would change
- Outstanding tickets
- What can we present to the community vis-a-vis the sprint?
- Inter-sprint availability
- Wrap up
Notes
- What worked.
- Aaron Birkland
- Slack worked very well, being able to ping people.
- Creating and sharing examples with Gists and Google docs for fleshing out details.
- The Open questions page.
- Andrew Woods
- Lot of engagement, people felt open to talking about the various topics related to the sprint.
- Design effort of the first week
- Time zones are challenging, but having a point person locally being empowered to move the work forward without a bottleneck.
- Dan Field
- collaborative technologies, esp JIRA
- Discrete units of work ( ie migration utils project structure) made it clear what needed to be done.
- Mohamed Rashed
- Slack
- Pennell
- Documents for working out problems
- PR to demonstrate what something might look like
- Jared Whiklo
- I agree
- Bernstein
- Communication was good.
- Design effort was good.
- Aaron Birkland
- What did you find challenging
- Aaron Birkland Local schedule
- Andrew Woods
- Available time
- Didn't seem able to kick start documentation effort.
- Dan Field
- New codebase. Jumping into the deep-end.
- New technologies (OCFL, Github).
- Took longer to get up to speed then expected.
- Hard to do documentation until you have a tool to work with.
- Mohamed Rashed
- Getting up to speed with the plan.
- Took a bit to get pieces in place before really getting to flesh out tickets.
- Pennell
- Dropped the hole backend and trying to re-implement which brought up more and more design decisions
- Some text exchanges could get hard to follow.
- OCFL stuff seems a little up in the air.
- Jared Whiklo :
- it took a long time to understand the codebase and now we're revamping everything.
- Requires rethinking everything.
- Bernstein
- Lots of discussion/planning
- Getting the tickets to flow
- What would I change
- Pennell
- Do more implementation.
- Helpful to put stand-up messages in a separate Slack channel to avoid other messages getting buried.
- Pennell
Suggestions for improvement:
Daily summaries of major discussions on slack so people can get the essence of the back and forth without having to read through all the slack communication.
Separate channel for daily summaries of key conversations
Separate channel for standups.
What to present to the community?
A one-page summary and 5 minute video highlighting what was accomplished. Andrew Woods and Danny Bernstein to collaborate on it with sound bites from the team members.