Techday Retrospective - 3rd February 2018
People present:
- Jake Howard
- Tyler Ward
- Kier Davis
- Charlie Turvey
- Henry Oliver-Edwards
- Anton Nikitin
- Dan Trickey
- Andrew Barrett-Sprot
The Day
- Positives:
- Teams turned up
- Productivity!!! (Teams were doing stuff)
- We could eat food in the room
- Security was there!
- We knew how to fix all (but one) of their issues.
- Negatives:
- Teams didn't stay the whole time
- No guest accounts
- Location not in level 2
- Solution: Meet with the ECS "H+S" people
- No free pizza
- Solution: Speak to Joyce
- Solution: Buy out Dominos
- Teams didn't go to Pizzaz for pizza
- Solutions: Make a list of good food places!
The Kit
- Positives:
- It works!!! (Yayy!!)
- The plugging in/out mechanism works.
- All our devices are detected
- Ultrasound works.
- Negatives:
- Improve communication about what we are doing with regards to the kit.
- Teams spent a lot of time diagnosing problems that we were responsible for.
- Solution: Mark functions that are broken so teams don't waste time. (Disclose larger issues.)
- Solution: GitHub issues for specific repos.
- We did not test the update mechanism
- We should make it clear in the docs that you can plug the USB in/out without restarting the robot.
- We shipped the removal of a feature without adding the alternative or explaining why.
- We fixed this by reverting the commit.
- We used American spelling in the name of the function (meters vs. metres).
- We brought soldering irons to a room that wasn't suitable.
- Solution: Use level 2 labs.
- We broke Level 2's RUB lid box :(
- Solution: Replace the lid
General Issues Raised:
- We should probably use GH Issues for GH repos (refer back from Trello)
- We should use Trello for a large strategic overview of what needs to be done.
- We should probably use version numbers.
- Year specific version/semantic version
- Year of the competition-Major Number.Minor Version ???
- We should probably discuss formatting.....
- We should think about using a different algorithm for the vision (alternative from AI)
- Charlie and Andy found a cool function!