Retros Dev Congress March 7-18

DATE Samvera Connect Dev Congress

Plus

• +++ Lynette shepherding cycle. Always tickets to work and following up.

• + Documentation - plentiful and well-maintained, and got work on it done in this sprint.

• ++ Great team!
• Significant improvements to the code base since I last looked at it.
• First time in this code base. It was pretty well organized. I felt comfortable finding things.
• Week before we started getting the environment set up and design patterns we were going to see.
• Able to commit a full two weeks (plus extra setup time before).
• Docker environment was weird for us, but our whole team got it going and running consistently without major issues.
• Running Hyrax and nurax-pg off the same code made it easier to flip back and forth and make sure we weren't breaking things
• Removing deprecated patterns of the separation of AF and valkyrie code
• We're going to cut a 3.x release

Delta

• Wished we could have finished it.
• Wished we could have had more QA support to see what's next and what's not working.
• Wish there weren't any flaky tests
• Really long (2 hr) test suite.
• splitting time with local work was hard
• timing over peoples' spring breaks meant we lost some folks
• I don't feel fully confident in the test suite. Unstubbing things sometimes revealed broken code.
• In person dev congress is more of a bonding experience and builds our community more
• A more immersive / in person experience also leads to deeper learning of the software
• Got stuck in a deprecated class without realizing it