Core Sprint 2 Retrospective

Date	12 Feb 2018
Participants	Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed), Michael Stay (Unlicensed) (invited), Yaraslau Levashkevich, Chris Kirkwood-Watts, Jeremy Busk, Henry Till, Kelly Foster

Retrospective

Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed): Hired a great dude from Poland!
Chris Kirkwood-Watts: Aeorfloat was fun.
Henry Till: wrote a prototype of a Tuplespace in Scala
Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed): We have a new PM!
Yaraslau Levashkevich: My PR's were approved quickly!
- My coding style matches that of the group
- The PR's were small.
- Henry Till: We got into a flow
Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed): Lots of good documentation
Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed): Onboarding was relatively smooth.
Chris Kirkwood-Watts: Individuals are taking ownership of pieces, taking responsibility for the system as a whole.

Yaraslau Levashkevich: Missing functionality in the library. We didn't know what was needed in terms of the storage layer. Lacking requirements coupled with the Prolog confusion, there was no basis upon which we could assess whether these libraries were missing functionality that would be needed.
- Speaking in concrete data types became a forcing function to gain more clarity from Kyle. Using Type signatures for functions was very helpful.
Chris Kirkwood-Watts: I didn't understand what the requirements were for a full build. Never done CI before, he probably should have asked. He didn't think about looking at documentation. This dropped in his lap because he was building the node.
Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed): His task wasn't clearly documented, but he hesitated to ask for help, he should not have hesitated, because talking to Chris for 10 minutes resolved the issue.

Kelly Foster: Updating onboarding documentation to include 'learn about Travis' with links. 20180221 update Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed) Tabling this task as work is in progress for a different CI solution that is not Travis. Will track to add when CI solution is selected.