Retrospective: Sprint 7

[vmvarela]

What went well?

• Sprint Goal met at 100% — all 6 planned issues delivered.
• Productive day: 5 feature PRs merged on the final day of the sprint.
• XML I/O and multi-character delimiter support closed a meaningful gap in format coverage.
• --validate and --sample add real usability value with very small effort (size:s/xs).
• CI fix (fix: pass -Dbundle-sqlite=true to unit-test step in CI #137) caught and resolved quickly on the same day.

What could be improved?

• Most PRs merged on the last day — aim for more even distribution across the sprint.
• Issues perf: replace byte-by-byte takeByte() with block reads in xml.zig and json.zig #135 and xml: verify nested closing tag names in readContent #134 (tech-debt: block reads in xml.zig/json.zig, nested XML tag validation) identified but deferred — carry into next sprint.

Action items for next sprint

• Pick up perf: replace byte-by-byte takeByte() with block reads in xml.zig and json.zig #135 (perf: block reads in xml.zig and json.zig)
• Pick up xml: verify nested closing tag names in readContent #134 (xml: verify nested closing tag names)
• Plan Sprint 8 with next priority items from backlog

Metrics

• Planned: 6 issues
• Completed: 6 issues
• Carried over: 0
• Sprint Goal met: Yes
• Release: v0.8.0