diff --git a/weekly/2016-05-16.md b/weekly/2016-05-16.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d2652eb71 --- /dev/null +++ b/weekly/2016-05-16.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# May 16th, 2016 + +## What we were even doing here + +This was our inaugural weekly. + +We’re sort of looking at this meeting as a retrospective on the previous week. We’re very aiming very roughly at ~10min, but since we’ve never done this before, and since Rick is starting new this week, we’ll see how it goes. + +We went in first name alphabetical order, and shared three things from the last week: + +1. What went well. +2. What went less well. +3. What we learned. + + +## Retrospective + +@joshvera: + +- Diff summaries! We now have a functional way of mapping diffs to their summaries. Tricky path to get to it, but pretty simple completed. +- Also worked on alignment stuff. Tricky stuff, possibly undecidable stuff. +- We’ve been learning about recursion schemes, and different ways to tear down and build up finite & infinite data structures in versatile & structured ways. + + +@rewinfrey (on his first week with us! :tada:): + +- Last week was wrapping up some work on a tenant scoping problem. Handed that off to @bryanaknight. +- Ran through `semantic-diff` setup, and `stack test` is all green. +- Also spending some time configuring Atom for Haskell &c. +- Excited to be here! :tada: (**Ed:** And we’re excited to have you! :heart:) + +@robrix: + +- Diff summaries went well. +- Working on alignment also went well, thanks to :pear:ing w/ @joshvera. +- I was reminded that at its best, :pear:ing is a “greater than the sum of its parts” sort of thing. +- Forgot to note that syncing up w/ @jbarnette on the meta-discussion around alignment was incredibly valuable. I spent a lot of time Writing Things Down last week, and I’m very glad I did. + +The above took us 8min. Nice! + + +## Metaretrospective + +Since this was our inaugural weekly chat, we also did a retrospective on the retrospective: + +- @joshvera observed that even if he’s not working closely with @rewinfrey & @robrix, he’ll have some idea of what we were working on, but less of an idea of what we learned; it’s both more interesting & harder to discover. +- @rewinfrey pointed out that this can help us discover unknown unknowns; “I learned x” gives others a chance to say “have you heard of y, which supersedes x?” +- @rewinfrey further noted that this is sort of a “what would be worth learning?” question, which sets us up nicely for this week. It’s a good chance to confirm that goals for the week are useful! +- @robrix was very glad to get the above feedback; this metaretrospective was super valuable. +- @robrix later realized he forgot to set down what the goals of this meeting are (in his opinion), which would be worth talking about.