Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/August
2018-08-30
editCormac
edit- won't be at standup
- have refactored File page php patch based on feedback from Adam/Wikidata
- re-starting js work
Pam
edit- Won't be at stand-up -- will be attending JMo's research presentation.
- Yesterday was extremely meetingful -- today is much better.
- Making very good progress on the Editing WD on Commons modal situation.
Ramsey
edit- tons of meetings today
- yesterday, completed high-level doc describing our current machine-assisted depicts taggging thoughts. Sent that to the research team, awaiting feedback
- also yesterday, added the Official Product Manager stance on statement traversal :)
- will try to return to the deck for SDC status meeting on Tuesday
Matthias
edit- Search proto: other statements
Mark
edit- Beginning a hiring process - some of you will be involved, but you've been warned (I think)
- Trying to clear out the todo list today
Amanda
edit- Review creating Wikidata items from Commons
- Review Keegan's property creation doc
2018-08-29
editKeegan
edit- No standup, dept. meeting
- Getting the properties list posted
- Work on the licensing draft
Mark
edit- Got through a good portion (maybe all?) of the MCR stuff yesterday...feel pretty good about it but obviously I haven't tried writing anything with it
- Meeting day today
- Pam - I rescheduled us as has become the norm, maybe we should just change our meeting time permanently
- Probably not much time for Real Work today, maybe tomorrow
Cormac
edit- OOUI on FIle page continues ...
- Have patch from Adam that I can use for a refactoring of my php patch
- may need to miss standup/retro tomorrow, not sure yet
- @Mark my 1:1 with you tomorrow clashes
Matthias
edit- UW fix going out today
- Replaced deprecated OOUI element in search proto
- Will work on "other statements" tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- too many things to write
- but fortunately not too many meetings today
- Working on writing a.) rationale for how to handle statement traversal (or lack thereof) b.) very base/high level spec for machine-assisted depicts tagging c.) deck for Tuesday's SDC update meeting
Pam
edit- Meeting Wednesday!
- Making further progress on Artwork Scenario/Editing WD on Commons + multilingual aspects of that
- Mark, yes, let's permanently change our meeting time (the later time works very well for me)
2018-08-28
editRamsey
edit- Survived yesterday's meeting extravaganza
- Reviewed the comment discussion on Cormac's statement traversal doc. Have a made a product decision on where we go from here (will document)
- going over proposed properties list with Keegan and Sandra today
- Will work on deck for next Tuesday's stakeholder meeting probably
- Will also try to find time for Machine assisted tagging requirements deck
- parking lot: Need to put up an emergency fix for the broken uploadwizard
Pam
edit- Great meeting with Ramsey yesterday over editing WD on Commons requirements
- Making progress on Artwork Scenario/editing WD on Commons
- Also attending the property list meeting
Amanda
edit- Doin' the project page update with Keegan!
- Reviewing GLAM pilot project timeline, Keegan's structured license discussion doc, mobile design brief, creating wikidata items from Commons, Magnus' dev notes, statement traversal thing
Mark
edit- I've successfully gotten Google on the schedule to log me out once a month right before our standups start
- Yesterday: Some catch-up, some feeling slightly under the weather. Gonna battle through and try to get things done today.
Matthias
edit- Upgraded ElasticSearch on labs - quantity search now works
- Working on replacing deprecated OOUI element in search prototype
- Need review for UW issue: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard/+/455532/
Cormac
edit- working on js for FIle page
- have had some feedback on the php patch ... addshore is working on some interfaces they want me to use instead of subclassing
2018-08-27
editKeegan
edit- Licensing draft, get it finished up and out to internal stakeholders
- Few meetings
Mark
edit- Back from a whirlwind weekend trip
- Will attempt to catch up on email then get back into MCR review stuff
Ramsey
edit- Only seven meetings today ;)
- Busy week of putting together various presentation decks. Not sure which will get done first.
- With time, I'll review Matthias' labs work (yay)
Pam
edit- Artwork scenario/editing WD on Commons
- Need to send the design update to the SDC list
Matthias
edit- Fixed UW issue (campaigns with prefilled categories)
- Upgraded PHP on labs
Cormac
edit- First part of the File page changes (the php part) in review
- some trickiness with Wikibase and Depends-On and CI/merging
- javascript part (the hard part) begins in the morning
- will be off work on Friday
Amanda
edit- First pre-midterm report grant review (features, timeline, and progress)
- GLAM pilot follow up with GLAM team
- Map of stakeholder concerns
- May be off work on Friday
2018-08-23
editKeegan
edit- Can't make standup, meetings most of the day
- Start drafting the licensing conversation this afternoon, at least get the images and sections into a gdoc
Matthias
editAway - doctor's appointment
- Search prototype mostly working & Cormac has imported a whole lot of things - let's (try to) get something on beta tomorrow
Pam
edit- Working on housekeeping stuff this morning (pulling all my work into a spreadsheet & making sure everything is in invision)
- Meeting with Ramsey & Nirzar later today to figure out editing of WD stuff
Mark
edit- Meeting day went as expected
- Off tomorrow
- Trying to get through MCR stuff today
- PL: Copernicus the cat
Amanda
edit- George Oates contract
- Respond to Magnus
- Respond to Swedish Cultural Heritage data roundtripping request
Ramsey
edit- yesterday: meetings, lots of stuff on design, IIIF, other things
- 8 meetings today!
- as usual, I will try (and probably fail) to get to the batch uploading scenario
Cormac
edit- spent today importing stuff into federated-wikidata for use on labs ... mostly breaking stuff then fixing it
- OOUI tomorrow
2018-08-22
editMark
edit- Philly hype
- Got through some MCR stuff yesterday, looking good so far, will try to blast through the rest of it before leaving
- Meeting day!!!
Pam
edit- Extremely meetingful day today
- Finishing up some artwork scenario thoughts & sending over to Ramsey soon
- Read the manual reverts deck & have been researcing it a bit
Keegan
edit- My throat is scratchy and I have a cough. I'm not okay with this.
- Emails, phabricator, meetings
- Advertise depicts a little more, maybe
Matthias
edit- Search prototype: keywords/depicts toggle mostly working
Amanda
edit- Reading manual revert deck
- Responding to Adam's email
- Moar SDC portal!
- Reviewing Cormac's search doc
Ramsey
edit- yesterday - finished and sent out that manual revert deck that's the hot thing, talk of the town
- meetings
- emails (so many emails)
- will try to get back into batch uploads/editing spec today if I can find the time
Cormac
edit- talked to the search team yesterday, output from that is a discussion doc that I just shared with them and Ramsey and Amanda
- making (slow) progress on File page OOUI
2018-08-21
editRamsey
edit- Meeting heavy day again
- Did some stuff with Undo/revert yesterday, will hopefully wrap that up today in prep for Thursday's design/dev chat
- poking people about stuff we need later
Matthias
edit- Working on search prototype
- Search term being generated!
- Next: keywords/depicts toggle
Pam
edit- Finally able to access labs again, thanks to Ramsey, to check UI copy. Updated this ticket: [⚓ T188502 Implement multilingual captions in UploadWizard](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188502)
- Putting together some artwork scenario stuff for Ramsey to look at
- Doing some research for the Undo function
- Floating last week's WMF holiday to this Friday
Amanda
edit- Respond to Max's email
- Nudge data migration tool builders
Cormac
edit- meeting with the search team at 5.30 to discuss depicts of depicts and statement traversal
- working on File page OOUI
Mark
edit- Schedules are hard
- Today: No meetings, hopefully can get through checking on MCR completeness
- Tomorrow: Back to meetings
- Gearing up to go to Philly on Friday - remember I'll be out
2018-08-20
editMatthias
editNot around for standup/meetings today - baby-related appointment (and again on Thursday, sorry!)
- Working on search prototype, making good progress on generating search term for keywords & depicts input
Ramsey
edit- Friday: reviewed and delivered Pam's mock structured licenses designs to Keegan
- Only 4 hours of meetings today! :)
- Working on annual plan documentation that Product team has to do
- hoping to have time to work on slides for batch editing and/or undo today
Mark
edit- A few meetings
- Have a lot of catchup to do still
- Cormac: How's MCR looking?
Pam
edit- mocked up examples for the structured licenses community discussion
- can’t access upload wizard on labs (blocker for checking https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189145)
- need to email SDC update
- returning to artwork scenario
Keegan
edit- Licensing draft that Ramsey sent me - I need to go over it
- Check up on depicts
- Figure out when we're doing our next office hour and newsletter
Cormac
edit- 'depicts-of-depicts' working properly now, have a meeting with the search team at 5.30 to discuss it and statement traversal in general
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194729 is resolved, which according to Adam Holmes :P means we can start our work on MCR
- started on OOUI stuff ... where are the designs again?
2018-08-16
editMatthias
editWill likely miss standup (conflict with "interview training")
- Working on search proto
Keegan
edit- Meetings
- Check up on Depicts, promoting on Wikidata I think
- I owe Community Tech a couple of small tasks today
Pam
edit- Emailed Matthias additional info re: Search with statements
- Working on structured licences mock for the community consultation
- Refining artwork scenario
- Will need another labs login because I lost mine somehow
Ramsey
edit- will help Pam with her labs login ;)
- so many meetings
- lots of follow-up emails
- Completed mock-ups for Structured Licenses yesterday (yes I worked a little bit on a day off SHAME ON YOU) and passed them off to Pam
- if I can somehow find the time, will work on Batch uploading spec for Pam
Cormac
edit- started digging on OOUI
- job queue issue with depicts-of-depicts patch, got some help from Erik so have a new lead
Mark
edit- That was a weird day off
- MN primary update [PL]
- Meetings to start off my morning (joy)
- May be ducking out a little early for some errands
2018-08-14
editMatthias
edit- Fixed double license selection in UploadWizard
- Sent emails about "other statements" & "related items"
Mark
edit- Meeting week continues
- Voted! Yay!
- Taking tomorrow off after all. If you *need* a 1:1 this week, please reschedule for Thursday.
Pam
edit- Sent some replies to Matthias about "related items" and Other Statements (other statements will take more than one email)
- Continuing finishing up the artwork scenario
- Working tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- Meetings
- Emails, emails, emails
- still trying to make progress on Structured licenses.
2018-08-13
editMark
edit- Every day is meeting day
- Will be out this afternoon for car maintenance stuffs
- Tomorrow: Voting! Primary! Ahhhhh
Matthias
edit- Catching up
- Fixed Vagrant
- Working on double license selection in UploadWizard
Ramsey
edit- Meetings
- A whole mess of emails came in before I woke up. Looking at those.
- Will attempt to return to the structured license spec today.
Keegan
edit- Can't make standup, will be at backlog grooming
- Meetings first half of the day
- Emails and wikis on the second half
- Closing the properties discussion today or tomorrow
Pam
edit- Making progress on Batch adding statements & the artwork scenario on UW
- Need to send out Design SDC update
Cormac
edit- trying to make my depicts-of-depicts job work on vagrant (including finding out what changes in wikibase break everything)
- off tomorrow to go for a birthday picnic with my younger daughter (she's 10!)
Amanda
edit- Mostly not SDC today
- Ping Magnus re. data migration bots and tools
2018-08-09
editKeegan
edit- Check up on the wikis
- Advertise depicts a little more
- Meetings
- Probably taking a half day after meetings to get vehicle emissions inspection
Mark
edit- wmflabs figuring done between meetings yesterday
- Meeting day 2: Meet Harder
- Hopefully can slog through some emails in the afternoon, things are getting out of hand
Ramsey
edit- So many meetings
- Will hopefully get a chance to start doing some structured licenses spec work today
Pam
edit- Way less meetings today (vs yesterday)
- So yay, batch adding statements in UW
Cormac
edit- asked search team for feedback on my statement expansion job (and Mark!)
- vagrant autoload woes doing my head in (grrr)
2018-08-08
editCormac
edit- still slogging away at the statement expansion ... making progress, but need some direction on synchonricity of job queues ... planning to seek help from search team tomorrow
Mark
edit- Yesterday was not as productive as expected - multiple interrupts
- Meeting day seems somehow more dense today
- Gotta figure out how to get some folks access to the wmflabs instance - looks like things have changed since I last did that
Pam
edit- Back for good
- \o/
- End-to-end design of how a user would add a piece of metadata to several pieces of artwork, both in Upload Wizard and elsewhere
- Getting caught up on the design/spec workboard and yay!
Keega...n
edit- Depicts discussion!
- Set up properties meeeting
- Meetings
Ramsey
edit- Yesterday: created the new docs Phab project/group and added everybody
- meetings today
- reading responses to depicts spec community consultation
Amanda =
edit- Bothering Keegan about project page
- Bothering Ramsey about other statements specs
- 1:1 with Ramsey, if he has time :)
2018-08-07
editKeegan
edit- Not at standup
- Posting and communicating about Ramsey's depicts specs on Commons today
- Non-SDC stuff related to time-consuming requests
Mark
edit- Getting stuff done day!
- Yesterday mostly disrupted due to meetings and appointment
Ramsey
edit- meeting with Shannon today to talk about the possibility of 3D updates as her 10% time project
- after consulting with Max, decided to go with the Phab approach for tracking design and spec docs. Creating and filling that out today.
- yesterday, polished up a community version of the depicts spec and handed it over to Keegan. Today, revisiting current relevant community discussions
Cormac
edit- catching up!
- working on statement expansion job ... making progress because I decided to ignore most of my email ... trying to make it generic enough to work for not just depicts-of-depicts (but not too generic ...)
2018-08-06
editMark
edit- Got through CR column - there's one ticket in there from me
- Meetings conflict this morning - may miss part of task planning
- Doctor appointment this afternoon, will be incommunicado for a bit
Ramsey
edit- Finishing the polishing of depicts doc
- Working on a new Phab workboard for design and spec docs
- Hopefully will have time to do leftover spec work on batch upload/edit
Keegan
edit- What's with Monochrome Etherpad?
- Checking up on the wikis
- Scheduling meetings
- Emails
- Phabricator board checkup
Amanda
edit- working on portal, yay!
- will send you an email, keegan
- then, if awake on plane, will look at EoY report
- do any of you have to do one of these?
- uploaded CT farmers market dogs to slack #doggos
2018-08-02
editKeegan
edit- Not at standup, conflicting meeting
- Meetings almost all day
- Emails and catchup
Mark
edit- Meeting half-day!
- Solidified plans for my trip to Philly - will be off August 24th for travel and my own special brand of tourism
- Will attempt to get through some code review this afternoon, but might need to work on some email backlog instead
Ramsey
edit- first half of day is full of meetings, as usual
- sent Pam my work so far on artwork depicts
- will try to get more polishing depcits doc
Pam
edit- Catching up on all the emails/presentation decks
- Out Mon/Tues to settle more properly
- Lining up what best to focus on (Ramsey, can we meet today or tomorrow?)
Amanda
edit- Are you sufficiently coordinated, Mark?
- FIlling out phab feedback for prog mgmt
2018-08-01
editKeegan
edit- Back, at about 80%
- Playing catchup - emails, Wikimania brain dump
- Non-SDC stuff to do
Mark
edit- Fixed Flickr uploads (I think) - needed to do some weird stuff with the license picker and also fix a breaking change in a core OOUI widget
- Meeting day today, trying to shave stuff from my todo list in between
- May be taking off a day later in August - have a trip planned (to Philly!!!!)
Ramsey
edit- emails emails emails
- continuing to work on add/edit depicts statements from depicted artwork
- polishing up depicts spec doc while I'm doing the above ^
Amanda
edit- coordination emails
- reviewing financial projections