EA: Development Team Meeting Agenda

[brandohayes]

Running agenda for the Development Team Weekly Meetings

# Agenda for DATE

note taker: 

## Attendance

- [ ] Sydney
- [ ] Hasham
- [ ] Whitney
- [ ] Troy
- [ ] Eileen

## Announcements/Discussion Points
- [dev project board](https://github.com/orgs/hackforla/projects/77/views/4)
- 

## Recurring items:

**assign issues** 
- [ ] #...
... more on the [dev project board](https://github.com/orgs/hackforla/projects/77/views/4) 🎉 


### Accountability and Support Check

**open issues**
- [ ] #...

**open PRs**
- [ ] #PR / #ISSUE

**previous action items**
- [ ] ...

## New Action items
- [ ] make new agenda

## Other Notes:
- 

[brandohayes]

Overview

This issue tracks the running agenda for the Development Team Weekly Meetings

Layout

Agenda for 01/06/2022

Prework

Roll Call

Recurring items:

• [x] review any issues that are in the new issue approval column
• [ ] Accountability and Support Check.

New Action items

• [ ] Complete Lettuce Meet Request to obtain team's availability for ALL Teams Meeting

Notes:

• Daniel is working on merging new updates into the product from both him and Brad.
• The Dev team recruited new developers. They will invite them to the next meeting and point them to the onboarding meeting with Bonnie.

[thomasdemoner]

Agenda for 01/13/22

Role call:

• Daniel
• Brad
• Sydney
• Thomas

Items to address:

• [x] Thomas
  • [x] New devs? Introduce, address onboarding
  • [x] Go over issues without project
  • [x] Lead dev open role posting

Notes:

• Daniel designing new pieces for the landing page, edits to the statement generator, fixing up master branch to make it easier for incoming engineers, integrating statement preview editing for each step in process
• Sydney has access to github and drive, I need to look over the onboarding process to set her up with anything else there.
• There are a couple more new devs that didn't show, we need to reach out to them for availability/get them in here next week.

[brandohayes]

Agenda for 01/20/2022

Roll Call

• Daniel
• Brad
• Jen L
• Tom
• Brandon

Recurring items:

• [x] review any issues that are in the new issue approval column
• [ ] Accountability and Support Check.

Notes:

Daniel

• Working on linking up with Content Writing (Sam) to review changes needed on the product

Jen

• Decided to join and will start picking up projects in the backlog
• Officially has been onboarded and has access to the Github page and Google Drive

Brad

• Finished task and his obtaining approval from Dev lead

Brandon

• Established new All Teams Meeting and has sent the invite to everyone on the Dev team

Tom

• Discussed Github Label changes required with Daniel
• Followed up on Dev Lead Job Req.

[brandohayes]

Agenda for 01/27/2022

Roll Call

• Dave
• Brad
• Igor (New Member)
• Tom
• Brandon
• Karsh (New Member)

Recurring items:

• [x] review any issues that are in the new issue approval column
• [ ] Accountability and Support Check.

Notes:

Dave

• Requested another issue and will reach out to Daniel to obtain one.

Brad

• Working on the 'How E-A Works' section of the landing page. Needs answers from Design on if the correct image assets are in Figma as some images have an unremovable white background behind them. Brandon will find this out.

Brandon & Tom

• Gave a break down of the project to the new members and onboarded them.

Igor

• A new member that is interested in during manual testing for the product

Karsh

• Interested in developing and has knowledge/experience with React. He also may be interested in other groups such as design and PM as well.

New Action Items:

• Karsh and Igor will follow up with Daniel to introduce themself and talk more about the technical aspects of the project.
• Brandon will follow up with Design about the SVP image assets
• Dave will obtain an issue from Daniel.

[brandohayes]

Agenda for 02/10/2022

Roll Call

• Daisy
• Brad
• Daniel
• Tom
• Brandon

Notes/Update:

Daisy

• Daisy reviewed the Figma design/current website and pointed out all of the issues that needed to be fixed (Refer to Figma for notes on issues)

Brad

• Currently working on “How Expunge Assist Works” Page with consist of three images

Daniel

• Fixed up page dials to match new design guideline. 

• Met with Sam about improvements such as unclear statements, double periods, and etc…..
• Daniel converted the branch to main instead of master
• New MVP Completion date is 02/28/2022. We plan to discuss the completion on the PM call that day.

Tom

• Reviewed labels with Dev

Brandon

• Discussed the onboarding/offboarding process/issue that need to be developed for the lead positions on GitHub

New Action Items:

• Daniel will look at the request for a onboarding/offboarding procedure for a Dev Lead position on Github.

[thomasdemoner]

Agenda for 03/10/2022

Roll Call

• Daniel
• Tom
• Sydney
• Cristian Perpina

Notes/Update:

Sydney

• Trying to determine the expected flow for #484; currently moves to unemployment flow if 'job' is not selected.

New Action Items:

[thomasdemoner]

Notes from Monday 3/14

Attendance:

• Thomas Demoner
• Daniel Xiao
• Daisy Yiu
• Mahmoud A.
• Olalekan Raheem

addressed:

• Issue with welcome screen dialogue pop-up, as opposed to separate screens
• Landing Page remake
• Changing footer color
• Lead Dev open role draft posted in a comment in our board's issue for recruiting devs.

[thomasdemoner]

notes from Thurs. 3/24

Attendance:

• Thomas Demoner
• Daniel Xiao
• Sydney

Addressed:

• there's a welcome page now.
• Design and writing issues resolved; Sydney working on some dope adaptive design features.
• Val expects Research to have the Usability testing process planned out by April 1st.
• Remaining minimum for MVP release is getting the landing page done. Dan thinks he can make that happen by April 1st as well.

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 3/9/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Roll Call

• Raman @ramankala
• Tom G @tglaz
• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Jamie @jamiesiu
• Thomas @thomasdemoner

Recurring items:

• [x] review any issues that are in the new issue approval column
• [x] assign issues

Accountability and Support Check

• @ramankala identified bug #870 and is taking that on
• @ramankala submitted PR #740 and @tglaz is reviewing

New Action items

• [ ] check PR #874 Contentful - @sydneywalcoff

Notes:

• ideally contentful should be used across all static info (faqs, landing page, translation files)

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 3/16/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Roll Call

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Thomas @thomasdemoner
• Raman @ramankala

News/Updates

• need to create a new dev branch, but I want to get more info from daniel first
• holding up on reviews until I have clarification, may need to cherrypick PR commits into the new branch

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #697

Accountability and Support Check

• [x] @ramankala working on #870 - submitted PR #882
• [ ] check PR #874 Contentful - @sydneywalcoff
• [x] @ramankala submitted PR #740 and @tglaz is reviewing      - changes requested might be related to the new dev branch

New Action items

• [ ] get dev branch sorted out

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 3/23/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Roll Call

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Raman @ramankala
• Tom @tglaz
• Thomas @thomasdemoner
• Ailin @AilinLuca

News/Updates

• Dev branch is fixed! Everyone is good to resume their work on issues!
• PR #740 was merged into Prod right before the meeting

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #716 - check with design

Accountability and Support Check

• [x] @ramankala working on #697
• [x] @sydneywalcoff to review PR #882      - this looks good but I want to see if Daniel has other ideas before we make AppHistory obsolete
• [x] check PR #874 Contentful - @sydneywalcoff
• [x] get dev branch sorted out - @sydneywalcoff

New Action items

• [ ] look into browser translations - @sydneywalcoff

Notes:

• discuss the ability to maintain language file and the feasibility of keeping up with it; (contentful would be a good way to get it off the devs plate);

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 4/20/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Roll Call

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Raman @ramankala
• Tom @tglaz

Announcements

• happy break!
• merged to prod this afternoon, broke something, opened a PR
• remember to move issues you're working on to 'In Progress (active)'
• we're getting very close to finishing IUT2 related tasks

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #691

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #703 @troymathis
• [ ] #682 @tglaz

open PRs

• [x] #912

other

• [ ] look into browser translations - @sydneywalcoff

New Action items

• [ ]

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 4/27/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Attendance

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Ailin @AilinLuca
• Raman @ramankala

Announcements

• I'll have final confirmation on whether #690 will be part of IUT2 on Friday
• planning meeting next week; no other meetings

Recurring items:

• [ ] assign issues #691

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [ ] #703 - @troymathis
• [ ] #752 - @ramankala - working out some technical issue

open PRs

• [ ] #912 - @tglaz - waiting on confirmation from content about links;
• [ ] #917 - @tglaz - needs a review

other

• [ ] look into browser translations - @sydneywalcoff

New Action items

• [ ] reach out to @troymathis @arpitapandya - @sydneywalcoff

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 5/11/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Attendance

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Raman @ramankala
• Thomas @thomasdemoner
• Ailin @AilinLuca
• Lane @lmitch10

Announcements

• @lmitch10 is oncoming Dev PM
• pushed to production right before the meeting
• #690 is happening but needs design first

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #691 - #923 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #703 - @troymathis
• [x] #752 - @ramankala - eta this week;

open PRs

• [x] #912 - @tglaz - waiting on confirmation from content about links;

other

• [x] look into browser translations - @sydneywalcoff (after shipping IUT2)

New Action items

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 5/18/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Attendance

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Ailin @AilinLuca
• Thomas @thomasdemoner
• Raman @ramankala

Announcements

• pushed to production right before the meeting
• automation deleting dev branch after merging to production

Recurring items:

• [ ] assign issues #691 - @sydneywalcoff #923 - @ramankala #927 - @AilinLuca

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] nothing atm, 🎉 thanks for your PRs @ramankala @AilinLuca

open PRs

• [x] #912 - @tglaz - waiting on confirmation from content about links;
• [x] #703 @troymathis - last changes requested pls!

other

New Action items

• [ ] @thomasdemoner looking into the dev branch self-deletion

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 5/25/2023

note taker:

Attendance

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Thomas @thomasdemoner
• Raman @ramankala
• Tom @tglaz

Announcements

• pushed to production right before the meeting
• automation deleting dev branch after merging to production
• next week is planning week; no meetings!

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #690 - #945 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] @thomasdemoner looking into the dev branch self-deletion
• [x] #691 - @sydneywalcoff - eta this weekend
• [x] #923 - @ramankala - eta this week

open PRs

• [x] nothing atm, 🎉 thanks for your PRs @AilinLuca @troymathis @tglaz

other

New Action items

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 6/8/2023

note taker:

Attendance

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Tom @tglaz
• Raman @ramankala
• Lane @lmitch10
• Thomas @thomasdemoner

Announcements

• I have settings access now so no more dev branch deletion 🎉
• IUT2 is only the landing page IUT3 should follow shortly

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #945 - #955 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #923 - @ramankala - eta - bug will work with @sydneywalcoff
• [x] #690 - @tglaz - just assigned

open PRs

• [x] nothing atm

other

New Action items

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 6/22/2023

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Attendance

• Sydney @sydneywalcoff
• Raman @ramankala
• Thomas @thomasdemoner
• Lane @lmitch10

Announcements/Discussion Points

• Design/Dev sync, is it beneficial for devs? - yes, but maybe we make it optional for devs and/or pick a dev to answer questions that day

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #945 - @ramankala #955 - #962 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #923 - @ramankala - giving to @sydneywalcoff;
• [x] #690 - @tglaz - ✅

open PRs

• [x] nothing atm

other

New Action items

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 6/29/2023

note taker: Lane Mitchell

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [x] Thomas
• [x] Tom
• [x] Raman

Announcements/Discussion Points

• next week is planning week, no meeting

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues

#955 - #962 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #923 - @sydneywalcoff - eta this weekend
• [x] #690 - @tglaz - eta
• [x] #945 - @ramankala - eta
• [x] #966 - @lmitch10 & @sydneywalcoff - eta Friday

open PRs

• [ ] nothing atm

other

New Action items

Notes:

• #966 2 more competitors were added to the figma

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 7/13/2023

note taker: Sydney Walcoff

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [ ] Lane
• [ ] Thomas
• [ ] Tom
• [x] Raman

Announcements/Discussion Points

• Bonnie did a test session of the site there should be incoming tickets as a result
• Team planning meeting was focused on the 'whats next' and around updating the mission statement for EA

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues

#955 - #962 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #923 - @sydneywalcoff - eta - this weekend
• [x] #945 - @ramankala - eta - next week

open PRs

• [x] #968 - @tglaz - download letter as docx

other

New Action items

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 7/27/2023

note taker: Sydney Walcoff

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Thomas
• [ ] Tom
• [x] Raman

Announcements/Discussion Points

• branch naming content issueNumber-description
• new CONTRIBUTING.md includes process to write and review PRs;

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues

#955 - @ramankala #962 -

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [ ] #945 - @ramankala - need more details

open PRs

• [ ] #923 - @sydneywalcoff - shift bug - still appearing on popups

other

New Action items

• [x] reach out to new devs - @sydneywalcoff

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 8/10/23

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Tom
• [x] Raman
• [x] Anthony

Announcements/Discussion Points

• Welcome new devs

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #962 - anthony #945 #987 #986

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #955 - @ramankala -
• [x] #866 - @sydneywalcoff - updated contributing.md, need to take a look at onboarding for devs

open PRs

• [ ] #923 - @sydneywalcoff - still working on this

other

New Action items

• [x] @lmitch10 get anthony set up
• [x] @sydneywalcoff reach out to design/research for IUT2 results.

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 08/24/23

note taker: Lane Mitchell

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Tom
• [ ] Raman
• [x] Anthony

Announcements/Discussion Points

• Welcome new devs
• No meeting next week for All Teams/Planning week, meetings resume week after.

Recurring items:

assign issues

• [x] #945
• [x] #987
• [x] #986

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #955 - @ramankala -

open PRs

• [ ] #979 - @sydneywalcoff - need a new review

other

• Thanks @awellsbiz for your PR 🎉

New Action items

Notes:

Anthony takes on new Issue Lane is still working on research issue Discussing Issue 923

[lmitch10]

Agenda for 09/07/23

note taker: Lane Mitchell

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Tom
• [ ] Raman
• [x] Anthony

Announcements/Discussion Points

• Project Manager discussion
• dev project board

Recurring items:

assign issues

• [ ] #1001

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [ ] #955 -
• [ ] #945 -

open PRs

• [ ] #979 - still needs a review :(
• [ ] #1005 -
• [ ] #1006 -

other

New Action items

Notes:

• Sydney will meet w/ Project Manager next week
• Whitney takes #1005

[lmitch10]

Agenda for 09/14/23

note taker: Lane Mitchell

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Raman
• [ ] Anthony
• [ ] Erin
• [x] Hasham
• [x] Whitney

Announcements/Discussion Points

• Introduce Hasham and Erin to the team!
• Credits page discussion (#1010)
• dev project board

Recurring items:

assign issues

• [x] #1007

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [ ] #955 -
• [ ] #945 -
• [ ] #1001

open PRs

• [ ] #1005 -

other

New Action items

Notes:

• Hasham is taking #1007

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 09/21/23

note taker: Lane Mitchell

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Raman
• [x] Whitney
• [x] Hasham
• [ ] Anthony
• [x] David
• [ ] Troy

Announcements/Discussion Points

• dev project board
• Thank you Whitney for writing issue #1026 🎉

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues no available issues atm 🎉

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #996
• [x] #945
• [x] #955
• [x] #1009
• [x] #1026

open PRs

• [x] #1027 - ready for review -
• [x] #1005 - still needs updates

other

New Action items

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 09/28/23

note taker:

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Raman
• [x] Whitney
• [x] Hasham
• [ ] Troy
• [ ] Anthony
• [x] David

Announcements/Discussion Points

• dev project board
• not accepting any more devs at the moment

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues no unassigned issues! 🎉

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #996
• [x] #945
• [x] #955
• [x] #1026
• [x] #1001

open PRs

• [ ] #1028
• [ ] #1008
• [ ] #1005

other

New Action items

• [x] remove frontend dev posting

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 10/12/23

note taker: Sydney

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [ ] Lane
• [ ] Raman
• [x] Hasham
• [x] Whitney
• [ ] Anthony
• [x] David

Announcements/Discussion Points

• dev project board
• Coding Principles to keep in mind: maintainability, responsiveness, and reusing code.
• Thoughts on writing tests?
• Check the team roster is up to date

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #945
• [x] #955
• [x] #996

open PRs

• [x] #1034 - @whitneywind - left some comments
• [x] #1026 - @davidwiese - I'll be deploying and testing this after the meeting
• [x] #1008 - @hasham-qaiser - left some comments
• [x] #1037 - @awellsbiz - testing this more after the meeting

other

• Merged #1036 - thanks @awellsbiz 🎉

New Action items

• [ ] find a testing environment so we can create a QC process including other teams

Notes:

• Testing seems like a good thing to build out.
• check out Netlify and Vercel for Staging apps

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 10/26/23

note taker: @sydneywalcoff

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [ ] Raman
• [x] Hasham
• [x] Whitney
• [x] Anthony
• [x] David

Announcements/Discussion Points

• dev project board
• If you weren't at the last meeting, check out the previous agenda for a cool extension to help with coding responsively

Recurring items:

• [x] assign issues #945

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [x] #996

open PRs

• [x] #1033
• [x] #1034
• [x] #1037
• [x] #1040

other

New Action items

• [x] check for devs to offboard

Notes:

[sydneywalcoff]

Agenda for 11/09/23

note taker:

Attendance

• [x] Sydney
• [x] Lane
• [x] Raman
• [ ] Hasham
• [x] Whitney
• [ ] Anthony
• [x] David

Announcements/Discussion Points

• dev project board
• Hack for LA December break - no EA meetings, but you are welcome to contribute
• Thanks Hasham, Whitney, and David for your PRs 🎉
• Fill out this end of Year review - there will be an issue assigned to everyone.
• If anyone would like to come learn about the basics of git, Sydney will be explaining the basics and how they relate to our processes to the content/design teams next week Friday. Slack me and I will share the invite link.
• Figma trick: Ctrl + shift + 4 - toggles the layout grids from the view

Recurring items:

assign issues

• [ ] #1048

Accountability and Support Check

open issues

• [ ] #1060
• [ ] #996 - about 90% done, finishing styling.

open PRs

• [ ] #1040 - Raman
• [ ] #1037 - Anthony

other

New Action items

• [ ] write tickets for issue and PR templates

Notes:

• No December Work (unless you want to)
• David is taking 1040