S59 Retrospective

Date	Mar 22, 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@Duncan Brain @Joyce Sato-Reinhold @Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz @Sayaka Ono

Background

This retro is for S59: Thursday, March 9th - Wednesday, Mar 22nd

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 (S58) retro is here: S58 Retrospective

Retrospective

S59 Discussion topics:

Your topics here…
- Sprint meetings - consider more person by person @Duncan Brain
  - Having a more defined format could make folks feel less on the spot.
  - DECISION: Starting on Friday, we’ll try reading off our stand-up script
- Add branch with react-jwt to be able to test app locally on smartphone

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs

Start doing	Stop doing	Keep doing	Shout outs
Formalize the way we debug failing services. For example, how do we interact with Watson? Some ideas: Look at the containers exit codes (@Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz may be able to help with this) ‘docker compose logs’ from the directory of docker compose yaml. If there’s a non-0 exit code, this can provide some guidance on what went wrong. Prioritizing tech debt, things like: Joyce’s improvements Making sure docker files are solid Expanding docker compose General clean-up			@Joyce Sato-Reinhold getting her first production code out into the world - woohoo! @Duncan Brain and @Sayaka Ono for exploring that dark room together. Whole team for taking a lot of initiative to investigate and (hopefully ) resolve the crashing beta api @Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) for taking responsibility for assessing Denis on the fly @Duncan Brain @Joyce Sato-Reinhold Great job on troubleshooting the vite PR issues(storybook and the server crash) @Joyce Sato-Reinhold solving and persisting on our deployment issues both memory allocation and crash! @Joyce Sato-Reinhold for having the solution ready and providing me help to test locally my branch. Hopefully the branch with those changes gets merged soon. @Gursimran Singh for taking LF-2911 to the finish line! @Duncan Brain for taking the lead on merging the giant PR and getting a handle on React rendering, Vite PWA, Cypress, and build processes all at once to make it happen @Sayaka Ono for knowing what to look for in a tech lead. I feel reassured having you on the hiring committee Thank you @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz for starting to join us in standups this sprint. It’s been great having you there! @Mwayanjana Bolokonya (Unlicensed) for joining us async on Slack even through a typhoon. I hope your new place has awesome internet! @Yu Tian for spending your workday with us troubleshooting LiteFarm and for knowing what to do to get beta running again

Action items:

@Lite Farm to write-up script to auto-assign PRs to “Reviewers” team (leftover)

@Lite Farm refactor process (leftover)

Merge in @Joyce Sato-Reinhold 's branch with react-jwt to be able to test app locally on smartphone

Merge in MinIO branch

@Lite Farm + @Javier Antonio Hernandez De Paz to schedule a 30-minute session to show and discuss debugging strategies for Docker

Devs to get together as a group and decide on top 5 tech debt issues to address and bring those to grooming