Meeting 27.10.2025

Attendees

  • Markus
  • Alfons
  • Ben
  • Chris(toph) Kraus
  • Hannes
  • Johannes
  • Justus
  • Maiia
  • Moritz
  • Paul
  • Richard

Not here:

  • Andrei (unexcused)
  • Christoph Schreiner (unexcused)

Sick:

  • Liza

Buddies

  • Andrei & Maiia
  • Patrick & Alfons
  • Christoph & Liza
  • Ben & Chris
  • Moritz & Paul
  • Johannes & Richard
  • Justus & Hannes

Success Partners

  • Maiia & Moritz (Frontend)
  • Ben & Alfons (Frontend)
  • Hannes & Johannes (DevOps)
  • Liza & Paul (PM)
  • Richard & Chris (Tooling)
  • Christoph & Andrei (Testing)
  • Patrick & Justus (Backend)

Agenda

  • 09:00 start
  • Welcome Patrick!
    • introducing your buddies
  • Meeting Notes: Alfons
  • Maiia Talk: socratic questioning on RQ
  • writing better English
    • careful if you refer to future or past: status reports should refer to past, left-over issues to future
    • avoid modal verbs like can and might, unless you want to express uncertainty
    • avoid confusions in terminology: doc/architecture/12glossary.md update/consistency
  • recent changes slowdown
    • please report
  • writing your own workflows:
    • e2e tests
    • guided tour
  • better progress
    • fix little problems right away or at least suggest fixes
    • split up too big issues and MRs
    • small MRs, left-over issues
    • say already in the meeting if it is obvious you cannot manage to do it in one week
    • good weeks (iterations) should be progress in about 5 issues, about 10 reviews
    • 70/20/10 rule every week, e.g. 20h: 2h thesis, 4h reviews/SP/buddy talk, 14h individual tasks
  • tech talk:
    • plants not showing
    • maiia unblocked issue: background base image should work again
    • Ben separate MR with Paul's fix of broken plant images
  • decision workflow
  • last decisions for 1.0
    • JSON Alfons
    • plant data testing Christoph
    • polygon_calculations.md Justus
    • Patrick?
    • infrastructure
  • Development Board:
    • Alfons
    • Andrei (not here)
    • Ben
    • Chris(toph) Kraus
    • Christoph Schreiner
    • Hannes
    • Johannes (left early)
    • Justus
    • Liza (not here)
    • Maiia
    • Moritz
    • Patrick
    • Paul
    • Richard
    • Tasks for Everyone

Outlook

  • Release procedure
    • Alfons testing (focus on guided tour)
    • Paul new release procedure
  • reviews and guidelines
    • testing guidelines
  • tech talk (frontend/backend coordination):
    • map overview sorting
    • delete areas
  • status (looking back):
    1. current progress and blocks
    2. Buddy talk/chat: RQs
  • release next week:
    • landing page updates
  • welcome to use our infrastructure

Tasks for Everyone

Tasks to be done until latest Thursday 30.10.2025 23:59:

  • create submissions MR: update of RQs with socratic questioning and/or hypothesis
  • Success Partner: go over a few MRs together
  • Add a self-chosen topic with a self-chosen date (where nobody else is) for yourself here in the MR (replace TBD with text by pushing to this MR or suggestion):
    • Alfons (17.11., methodology)
    • Andrei (TBD)
    • Ben (TBD, maybe methods, FLOSS refactoring on library upgrades)
    • Chris(toph) Kraus (TBD)
    • Christoph Schreiner (TBD, maybe thesis or console tools)
    • Hannes (TBD Infrastructure Architecture/Quality? Debugging Nextcloud Images? )
    • Johannes (TBD)
    • Justus (24.11 Debugging+Logging in the Backend)
    • Liza (TBD, maybe PM)
    • Moritz (TBD pitfalls about pagination&endless scrolling)
    • Patrick (TBD)
    • Paul (10.11., Running Meetings That Don't Waste Time)
    • Richard (TBD pipeline, dev-centric or architecture)
  • Regular Tasks

Statistics (16.09. - 23.10.)

Merge Request approved

Raab, Markus: 12 Kuzmishyna, Maiia: 4 Bachinger, Paul: 3 Muth, Moritz: 3 Kraus, Christoph: 2 Zettl, Hannes: 2 Müller, Alfons: 1 Schreiner, Christoph: 1 Weilguni, Justus: 1

Issue progress (status changes + closed)/ total assigned

Bachinger, Paul: 7/9 Dinu-Coreth, Andrei Cristian: 1/5 Kraus, Christoph: 3/8 Kuzmishyna, Maiia: 3/5 Mokshantseva, Elizaveta: 4/6 Muth, Moritz: 2/7 Müller, Alfons: 5/6 Raab, Markus: 2/2 Schlegel, Ben: 4/6 Schreiner, Christoph: 1/7 Weilguni, Justus: 3/5 Wutscher, Richard: 0/2 Zettl, Hannes: 3/6 Ziehengraser, Johannes Leonhard: 0/3 Total: 38 / 77

Did Not Approve Last Meeting Notes In Time

  • Ben
  • Richard
  • Andrei
  • Chris(toph) Kraus
  • Johannes

Meeting Notes

  • 09:00 start

  • Welcome Patrick!

    • introducing your buddies

  • Meeting Notes: Alfons

  • Maiia Talk: socratic questioning on RQ

    • Defining the term research question
    • Challenges of writing research questions
    • What is socratic questioning
    • Applying socratic questioning to RQ
    • How to process feedback gained from socratic questioning
    • Answers to questions can be included in different sections of the thesis

    Questions from audience:

    • Q: How to come up with research question? A: Look at related work and downscale
    • Q: Which socratic question helped the most? A: Clarifying or explanatory question
    • Comment: Importance of clearly defining the scope

  • release next week:

    • landing page updates

  • recent changes slowdown

  • writing better English

    • mostly present tense in thesis
    • careful if you refer to future or past: status reports should refer to past, left-over issues to future
    • avoid modal verbs like can and might, unless you want to express uncertainty
    • avoid confusions in terminology: doc/architecture/12glossary.md update/consistency

  • Note on workflows:

    • Create issues when experiencing problems
    • Workflows can be found in doc/workflows → "How do we do things?"

  • better progress

    • fix little problems right away (e.g. spurious failures, trigger with "jenkins build please" or push spelling fixes etc.) or at least suggest fixes
    • split up too big issues and MRs
    • small MRs, left-over issues
    • say already in the meeting if it is obvious you cannot manage to do it in one week
    • good weeks (iterations) should be progress in about 5 issues, about 10 reviews
    • 70/20/10 rule every week, e.g. 20h: 2h thesis, 4h reviews/SP/buddy talk, 14h individual tasks

  • tech talk:

    • plants not showing
      • at least 3 issues: 1 fixed (fetchdate, not in dev), other not fixed yet, Maiia will create issue
      • 1 caused by tanstack other problem is caused by something else
      • Rollback tanstack merge?
    • maiia's issue unblocked: background base image should work again
    • Ben creates separate MR with Paul's fix of broken plant images

  • writing your own workflows:

    • e2e tests
    • guided tour

  • short introduction of decision workflow:

    • first clarify problem before going into solutions
    • at least two MRs needed

  • last decisions for 1.0

    • JSON Alfons
    • plant data testing Christoph
    • polygon_calculations.md Justus
    • Patrick?
    • infrastructure

  • Development Board:

    • Alfons
    • Andrei
    • Ben
    • Chris(toph) Kraus
    • Christoph Schreiner (not here)
    • Hannes
    • Johannes
    • Justus
    • Liza (not here)
    • Maiia
    • Moritz
    • Patrick
    • Paul
    • Richard
    • Tasks for Everyone
      • Choose topic+date for talk
      • Go over MRs with success partner
      • Create submissions MR with RQs update