Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/December
2018-12-20
editMatthias
edit- Search prototype changes
Cormac
edit- depicts on File page
Pam
edit- Search results
- Image annotations - will be looking for links/resources
Mark
edit- Happy new year y'all - see you on the other side
- Working through the last little bits to tie up before break - will take a half-day tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- a few meetings
- QA on Beta
- emails on various topics, including a possible depicts AI partnership with a GLAM
2018-12-19
editPam
edit- Proposals
- Getting back to search results later today
Ramsey
edit- Adding proposals on behalf of people outside of audiences
- misc. admin stuff (offsite scheduling, Berlin notes, etc.)
- QA and user feedback on Beta
Matthias
edit- Making search prototype more robust (removing some temp hacks)
Mark
edit- Meeting day!
- Sorting out some various stuff before the holiday break
2018-12-18
editJames
edit- Resolved integration test issue. Patch to add it to gate soon to be merged.
- Did a fix for T209380 and looked at a few other not-crisis tickets.
- Looked at a couple of new tasks and asked for design/product decision on what to do.
- Talked to Ed about OOUI stuff for Matthias's search prototype and other bits and bobs.
- See you in January!
Ramsey
edit- proposals
- QA stuff on Beta
- looking over tickets
Mark
edit- More working through perspectives
- Meeting in a bit with James and a few others to talk about some deployment things
Matthias
edit- Making search prototype more robust (removing some temp hacks)
Pam
edit- Search results: made a ticket for the initial Depicts release, will be making another ticket for the dropdown media type filter. still working on the future-oriented search results.
- Proposals
Cormac
edit- depicts on File page
2018-12-17
editJames
edit- Hello from London.
- Merged Cormac's patch for non-table file captions display.
- Still hitting my head against integration tests.
- Follow-up design tweaks for non-table file captions.
- Depicts ("digital representation of") got created by the community: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6243
Matthias
edit- Working on search prototype feedback
Mark
edit- Fending off senioritis
- Working through the perspectives documents (it's going...okay)
Pam
edit- Senioritis is real
- But search results iterations don't stop...
- Will be working with Ramsey in our meeting later to answer questions
Ramsey
edit- Answering questions and making decisions
- A few meetings
- Writing up proposals for 3-5 year planning (which anyone can do!) https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Audiences/2018_Call_for_proposals
Keegan
edit- Spreading word of beta testing???
- +1 — James
Cormac
edit- now working on statement display on File page (the php part)
2018-12-13
editMatthias
edit- Working on search prototype feedback
Keegan
edit- Will be OoO most of the day
- Couple of meetings, though
Pam
edit- Revised design brief for Search Results & have some possible V1 treatments to share for our design:dev discussion
- Spending some time on 3-5 year proposals
- Meeting with Daisy later to do an Airtable walkthrough
Mark
edit- Meeting day continues
- That's probably all I can do today though
Cormac
edit- Finishing OOUI-ifying File page progressing
- participating a little bit in the Beta discussions
James
edit- Loads of Beta/config discussions with Daniel and others.
- Code review of Daniel's and Cormac's stuff.
- Today's my last day in the office until January.
Ramsey
edit- answering questions
- testing/double-checking beta
- misc. documentation
- meetings, of course
2018-12-12
editMark
edit- Meeting day!
- Congratulate our new members :)
Keegan
edit- Pushing gently on Comms for blog text review
- Checking up on the wikis
- Non SDC, All-Hands week planning stuff
Ramsey
edit- meetings
- looking at Beta and making sure nothing secretly broke
- did some WMDE strategy/tactics stuff yesterday and this morning (should be done with that for the rest of the year...he says, hopefully)
James
edit- Good news: I had a crazy plan and it might just have worked. Beta is back up.
- Bad news: Federation is off until bits of Wikibase are re-written. Task from Daniel forthcoming.
- Current focus is working with RelEng on our integration with other repos so we can avoid future breakage, hopefully.
Pam
edit- Still working on Search Results versions
- Prepping for a fruitful design:dev discussion on search for tomorrow
- Meeting day
Amanda
edit- Enroll in your benefits!
- Bothering Mark about API goal
- Giving Lydia and Leszeck a heads up about federation
Cormac
edit- Continuing prep work for depicts on File page (tests done, working on OOUI stuff)
- unlikely to finish depicts before Christmas - should finish displaying statements, but prob not editing
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
- Will work on search prototype feedback tomorrow
2018-12-11
editCormac
edit- Continuing prep work for depicts on File page (still doing tests, OOUI stuff next)
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
Mark
edit- Feeling good about catch-up
- Today, on to making sense of our patches and tasks
- Ongoing hiring clean-up
- Holiday backstop assignments...
Ramsey
edit- 3-5 year planning stuff recommences!
- Reviewing what Mikhail did for the Wikidata incompleteness issue (see https://people.wikimedia.org/~bearloga/reports/wikidata-incompleteness.html)
- Thinking of ideas for a potential future working agreement in prep for the Berlin meeting (which I won't be attending physically, but maybe remotely)
James
edit- Daniel is digging into T211237.
- Other stuff as before when my supporting him is not occupying my time.
Pam
edit- Working on V1 + V2 versions of Search results
2018-12-10
editKeegan
edit- Poke Ed and finish up blog post
- Housekeeping on phabricator
- Non-SDC stuff
Mark
edit- Getting caught up today or die trying
- All-hands registration reminder
- More hiring updates
Pam
edit- Iterating on Search results page
James
edit- Productive MCR meeting this morning.
- Will be working with Wikidata to see if we can fix the current Beta Breakage and the one remaining blocker (mobile editing) and also the text trimming concern.
- Will be working with RelEng to see if we can get that integration test working and then landed into the gates for MW and Wikidata.
- PL: Roll-off.
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
Cormac
edit- started preparatory work on depicts-on-file-page (T211134, then T203934, then T204264)
Ramsey
edit- can't test on Beta so will do other things!
- Meeting with Pam about stuff
- probably work more on System Stories and share draft
- I have a non-SDC deck to make for the Berlin meeting I'm not going to
Amanda
edit- Planning and finance stuff.
- Per Nirzar, don't worry about CleanChanges any more.
2018-12-06
editKeegan
edit- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/copyright_status YYYYAAAAAAYYYYY
- YAAAAAAAAAYY
- Meetings first half of the day
- OoO second half of the day for personal errands, didn't make it yesterday
- Will be at retro for the last 20mins if we need to talk about Community stuff
- Sending the newsletter out tomorrow. Was holding it to include the Captions testing announcement.
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
Mark
edit- Fewer meetings!
- Retro fun times!
- A little more catch-up and some errands in the afternoon
Pam
edit- Been sorting through Search results feedback from the design team
- Organizing project info/admin[type stuff
- Going to be be thinking through some issues with Search results & documenting thoughts/sharing out
- Reminder: off tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- I've been up too long already
- A few meetings with the team
- quarterly goal stuff
Cormac
edit- struggling through integration tests (bad token errors) ... just occurred to me to look at the WB tests for hints, so doing that now
James
edit- Daniel looking at our wbentities issue.
- After that, will go back to looking at mobile editing stuff.
Amanda
edit- Still mapping dependencies
2018-12-05
editJames
edit- OK, T211052 is fixed and merged (thanks Cormac!).
- I also fixed the header duplication, and killed off our use of page_props (T205417).
- AbuseFilter code tweaked; should land later today.
- BUT, Beta is still having an issue when you click edit; looking into it.
- (that's the wbgetentities failure, I expect)
- Yes, but I thought that was meant to be fixed by T211052 :-(
- (that's the wbgetentities failure, I expect)
Mark
edit- Meeting day!
- Yesterday: Not much productivity due to under-weather-ness
- Hopefully between meetings I can catch up on the uncountable email threads
Keegan
edit- Keeping the WD copyright conversation going
- Blog tinkering
- Half-day either today or tomorrow to take care of some stuff
Amanda
edit- Gooooooooooooals for Q3 (cue vuvuzela)
- Including airtable dependencies, oh joy
Matthias
edit- Back to depicts in UW
Pam
edit- Finishing up search results mocks for design team sharing
- MRC meeting yesterday
- Meeting Wednesday!
Ramsey
edit- Will try to get to some campaign testing on either Alpha or Beta (whichever is working)
- system story stuff continues
- will test additional things if they do end up working on Beta
Cormac
edit- working on basic integration tests to make sure we know if other stuff breaks our stuff
- PL: is getting alpha working something we should prioritise?
2018-12-04
editMark
edit- Doing some more reading on Gerrit/Phab today to catch up
- Little under the weather so probably will try to get some rest as well
Matthias
editwill miss standup
- Catching up on things
James
edit- MCR team's merge of the SlotRoleHandler stuff broke everything in WBMI. Working with them to fix.
- Am in an Infrastructure retro meeting, sorry!
Pam
edit- much the same as yesterday: revising search results thanks to chat w/ Ramsey & prepping to show to design team tomorrow
- emails!
- MCR design considerations
Ramsey
edit- reallly hoping to be able to finish testing on Beta one day :D
- in the meantime, doing more "system story" stuff to document our system rules so far
- emails about non-SDC stuff
Cormac
edit- did some rebasing, got bogged down updating vagrant so not a v productive day
- updating labs - how to go about it?
- we REALLY need to do some integration tests to stop other teams breaking our shit
2018-12-03
editCormac
edit- that bug with the errors from abuse filter is in review, but I have a qunit test failing that I don't understand
- next is rebasing that search prototype patch so I can make it work on labs again
Matthias
edit- Hi!
Ramsey
edit- OMG baby time!!
- crazy day of meetings and emails today. putting out some small fires.
- hopefully (crossing fingers) going to QA Beta if it's ready.
Keegan
edit- Meetings
- Beta announcement?
- Captions blog, should start
Pam
edit- Search wireframing
- Answered some email...
- Need to start on Image Annotations soon
James
edit- Bug squashing.
- Wouldn't it be nice to only have one Structured Data header on file pages? ;-)
Mark
edit- Hiring obviously progressing
- MCR meeting - sounds like they aren't blocked or arguing, just working on SlotRoleHandler
- After meetings, will hop back on phab/gerrit and sort things out