Retrospective: Sprint 4

[vmvarela]

What went well?

• Sprint Goal met 100%: all 6 issues closed, 0 carried over
• Release Drafter + APK packaging job worked smoothly out of the box — nfpm handles Alpine with no extra config
• Fixing the release-drafter workflow (removing pull_request trigger) unblocked the draft generation that had been silently broken
• TDD discipline: tests (test: add integration tests for --delimiter, --tsv, and --header flags #73) were written as a dedicated issue before merging the feature (JSON output format (--json) #44 was already done, but the test gap was tracked and closed)
• Docs gap identified proactively and tracked as issue Update docs for --json flag and Alpine APK install #76 before Sprint Review

What could be improved?

• Release Drafter miscategorized APK (feat: add APK package for Alpine Linux to release workflow #75) as Maintenance instead of Feature — feat: prefix on a CI/packaging PR is ambiguous; consider using chore: for pure workflow changes and feat: only for user-facing features
• Issue Auto-remove status labels on issue close #43 (auto-remove status labels) retained a stale status:ready label after closing — the very automation it implemented wasn't applied to itself
• PR feat: add --json output flag #74 (--json) appeared twice in the auto-generated release notes — investigate release-drafter category rules to prevent double-listing

Action items for next sprint

• Review release-drafter category rules to avoid duplicate entries and miscategorization
• Consider tightening commit prefix conventions: feat: = user-facing only, chore: = CI/tooling/packaging

Metrics

• Planned: 6 issues
• Completed: 6 issues (100%)
• Carried over: 0
• Sprint Goal met: Yes