Iteration 5 Retrospective Notes

Owned by Darius Jazayeri
Aug 22, 2013
2 min read

22.Aug.2013

Participants: Darius, Lee, Rafal, Daniel

What Went Well

  • Got some stories done. (I left for a week, and came back to see forward progress!)

  • Several consecutive build failures with module-not-started, but in the end the test was "right", there was a (tricky) bug. 

  • The long-quarantined UI test that actually does some real UI testing seems to finally be reliably green. 

  • Lee got to 1.0 of the refactored test framework

  • CI is green now :) +1

  • DK: This time round i have been on refapp for sufficient time to get more comfortable with things :)

  • DK: I also start to see the refapp getting in shape. Knowing where we are going.

What Went Not-So-Well

  • CI-STG is very slow, it takes over half an hour to build openmrs-core

  • Lost Achint and Breeze

  • People (including me) late to standup. Running over our 15-minute allotted time.

  • Spending too much time trying to figure out CI failures, not enough access to the server (db, logs)

  • UI Testing is progressing rather slowly.

Other Things To Bring Up

  • It's hard to get a cohesive sense of "the team" with such constant turnover

  • "It's strange to jump in in the middle of an iteration" -RK

  • "Too many bamboo failures" -DK

  • "When I (re)joined I had to completely redo my dev environment [which took a few hours]" -RK

Action Items

  • Get back on the same schedule for iterations and community dev lead (DJ emailed CP. Need to ensure this is followed up.)

  • Stop pulling Daniel off of the RefApp work after a few days each time. 

  • Elevate priority of ticket about CI-STG being slow ITSM-3609 (needs followup)

  • Rafal to request shell access to ci-stg.