S61 (Sensor patch) Retrospective

Date	May 30, 2023
In sprint	@Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) @David Trapp@Lite Farm @Duncan Brain @Carolina di Lello (Unlicensed) @Gursimran Singh @Sayaka Ono@Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz @Joyce Sato-Reinhold
At retro	@Lite Farm @Denis Dovganyuk @Iván Perdomo @David Trapp @Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Sayaka Ono @Duncan Brain @Carolina di Lello (Unlicensed)

Background

This retro is for the Sensor patch, roughly: Thursday, May 4th - Friday, May 26th

Please add comments before the meeting! We’ll take a few minutes to add additional comments and discuss, then put together action items to operationalize suggestions.

Last sprints (S59) retro is here: S59 Retrospective (although that is pre-Spring release)

Retrospective

Discussion topics:

Your topics here…
- Release process review:
  - https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/1302331393
- How quickly after release should we abandon the kanban board and jump back into sprints?
- How can we get engineers (that are interested) involved earlier and in a meaningful way in the design process?
  - Engineers should feel free to review the LUX board and request to jump in on specific features
  - Feel free to monitor ux_ui channel as you see fit

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs
Move release process earlier in the day and have driver neither at the beginning nor end of their day (As much as possible) remove constraints on release process timeline Have release process driven by engineering Automate release to production such that it mirrors beta (e.g. merging integration into main should run the same automated deployment as takes place on beta) Update to PR process @Iván Perdomo reviews all PRs Second reviewer is round robin Make a list of env variables that need to be added/updated before a release How do we incorporate this step into an automated deployment?			@Joyce Sato-Reinhold for being fearless about learning everything that’s dropped in front of her @Duncan Brain for looking so damn good in that t-shirt (and getting us to the point where we have t-shirts!) @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz for picking up two of the toughest tickets, navigating the nuance of the possible, and bringing them home @Kevin Cussen for coordinating and completing several large improvements this month (ie Lucrative grant proposals, Tech Lead, Release and two patches)

Action items:

Arrange a team discussion on automating the production deployment process @Lite Farm

How do we incorporate manual steps into this (e.g. env key changes, modifying the database to require agreement with data privacy, etc.)

@Iván Perdomo to configure round robin and his review required on PRs