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title: Vortex Retro 2019-11-06

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# Vortex Retro 2019-11-06

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## Prior Action Items

- Pair up/Meet about PR reviews [rc/nc & yt/mm/cs]
- Discuss spiking on Database replication [lm/kc/cm]
- Rejected stories get `🐛 Bug Hunt` sub-task created [testing team] (Update docs [rc/lm])

## What is Going Well?

- Smaller PRs (_ish_) 🎉 [nc]
- Beckman onboarding [lm]
- Added Jira workflow columns [lm][em][rc]
- Jenkins/GitHub status checks [lm][rc]
- Added staggered sprint for verification tasks [em]
- Linux setup doc works [mm]

## What Could Be Improved?

- Commit messages [nc]
- Smaller prs [mm]
- PR turn around and the magic of fridays [mm]

## What Do We Need to Discuss?

- PR closings [nc]
- emojis in code [lm]
- When a story fails verification [lm]
- CouchDB [lm]
- PR from BC [mm]
- design and req changes while ticket is being worked on [mm]
- improvement tickets [mm]
- lib changes [mm]

## Action Items
- donut bribe on eds desk [mm]
- Add AC details to PR description [dev team]
- Opt in for Jenkins emails for broken builds [lm]
- Bringing Chris on board to help with Couch [lm]


[previous]: https://hackmd.io/@n8io/retro-2019-10-23
[next]: https://hackmd.io/@n8io/retro-2019-11-20
