semantic/weekly/2016-06-01.md

Planning Meeting June 1, 2016

Observations

@robrix:

- Since Alignment Diff PR was merged, it offers a good chance to step back and look at what would be most valuable in support of Diff Summaries and the 90 day goals.
- Want to triage Diff Summaries and if we should be reprioritizing staff shipping Semantic Diff now that Alignment is merged.

@joshvera:

- Reviewed open issues to prepare for planning meeting while evaluating how they fit into our milestones.
- Thinking about how we can ensure resilience if Semantic Diff times out, or fails and having fall back to traditional diffing.
- Also thinking about how to ensure Semantic Diff can render correctly.

Focus Points

- Update semantic diff sha in github/github so semantic diff can be updated in github local development environments [PR](https://github.com/github/github/pull/56240)
- Improving Diff Summaries (performance and structure)
- Profiling and algorithm improvements to SES (Performance label)
- Fix Ruby Parser
- Unicorn Timeouts (algorithmic improvement, better fallback (should probably be driven by workflow tools))
- Benchmarking
- Other Features: detecting and rendering moves (as part of DotCom milestone)

Plan

@robrix & @joshvera:

- Rob to set aside Benchmarking for now, focus on profiling (pair with Rick).
- Josh and Rick to pair on Diff Summary performance while Rob is out.
- Have Rick take a look at the Unicorn timeouts (involving some profiling to identify where things are slowest).
- Rob on vacation starting Tuesday June 7th (for 10 days)
- Schedule mini-summit for week of June 20th.
- Longer term planning including solidifying a road map will be held at the mini-summit.