Retros Dev Congress September 6th - 16th, 2022

Planning Documents

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