Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/November
Sorting out the properties process options
Meetings
Stuff for my team
AbuseFilter UX
Search results wireframing, continued
working on error msg display for abuse filter - thought I'd have it ready by now, but have a kinda disturbed afternoon (school bus blocked by an overturned tractor!)
responding to process email (sorry)
bothering Alan about financial projections
A few meetings to start the day
Catching up on a few things, I think I'm nearly recovered
Making a decision on hiring tomorrow
Meetingpalooza returns!
Beta is *supposed* to be back up, going to try to do testing there. UPDATE: Beta is not okay.
Hiring update
Apparently troubleshooting labs/beta in between meetings
Everything is awesome! (and by awesome I mean broken - e.g. beta and labs)
Started on system stories yesterday, will continue to do so today
Bugging Cormac and James about various coding things
moving postion of structured data and order of languages MERGED!
was looking at UW and depicts
now gonna look at error reporting on captions on UW
Illustrious privilege of dealing with DMV stuff today...
More catch-up because it never ends
Will try to QA Beta again (if it works), if not, more testing of AbuseFilter on labs
Working on "system stories" that detail all these new "How is this supposed to work?" questions with this new platform
Dipping a toe back into 3-5 year planning stuff
wireframing search results
meeting prep for tomorrow's many-meeting day
Gah, everything about MediaWiki is terrible.
Working with Cormac (with much-appreciated help from Daniel) on the T205891 patch. We got it working except it breaks other extensions like Cite, which means we didn't get it working. Cormac's now working on approach #4, which we have a good feeling about.
Need to work out exactly what's broken with Beta Cluster still, sorry.
As James says - working on T205891 (which is moving the captions and ordering the languages)
wireframing search results
meeting w/ ramsey after retro/task(???) planning
later this week (Wed) will be in a two-hour workshop for editing wikipedia
Talking with team members about property creation inspiration
Getting the beta announcement out when we're ready
Car shopping Ramsey =
edit
Catching up on tickets that came in during the holiday
Back to QA on Beta
Getting into debates as necessary :)
PL: Retro or TP
That was some kind of a break
Catch-up time
Not much MCR update today, they're trying to keep plugging away at our blockers
Do you need things from me?
WMDEF trip, Ramsey?
Talking again to Wikidata team about my work on T209736 and T208993
Need to pick back up review, starting with Cormac's patch for T205891 (yay)
Find out why Beta is still broken for Ramsey
T205891 is a work in progress still ... bugfixing on language order, and generally tearing my hair out
Mainly non-SDC stuff today, CommRel strategic planning
Gonna read some old property proposals and cry a little bit about what we need done
Labs instance appears to be working. For how long? Who can say. (we're getting migrated on 11-28)
Meeting day!
Probably skipping out after the last meeting to go grocery shopping. We'll see how much I can get done in between things.
Been iterating on search results (will continue)
Thoughts on Image Annontator & AI suggested tagging
FORGOT: have to test AbuseFilter also!
So many meetings. Not gonna be my most productive day.
Yesterday i started testing AbuseFilter on labs. It halfway works. Need to get in there more, will try to today. DON'T! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON HOLIDAY!
Catching up on ticket updates
Moving the content is working - haven't submitted a patch yet, because I'm having to do the babel/language stuff at the same time
Happy monthly Google Logs You Out Day
A few meetings to get out of the way early today
Catching up on email, phab, etc.
A few things to wrap up on hiring (brief update)
David from Search is going to take a look at our Labs instance to work out what's not working.
Iterating on search results page
moving those captions isn't going well, let's talk about it
QA was disrupted by beta move yesterday. Hoping for improvement today.
had a meeting with Lydia and Lea from WMDE about community property creation (results are not promising, but we're gonna try)
can't make standup
Finalizing help page for captions
Meetings
been trying to find a way to change the position of the structured data on the File page without using js
don't know what to do next with the back button thing
One of these days I'll get used to my new laptop's keyboard
MCR team update
AbuseFilter stuff - patch shouuuuuld be up on the labs instance ready for testing(?) but waiting for confirmation there
SlotRoleHandler - could be a while. What are our options?
Hiring update (brief)
Is trying to leave you all alone to get shit done
But ping me if you need me!
Going over the search results filter bar requirements with Ramsey today, as well as sharing some initial sketches
E-mail threads on SlotRoleHandler and AbuseFilter
Testing on Labs for AbuseFilter fixes if it's there
did an interview
bugfixing ...
Hiring stuff: Some interviews today and tomorrow, possible offer
Meetings most of the day
Otherwise, keeping up with emails and trying to get back into other work (Phab/Gerrit rounds basically)
Head still like glass from yesterday's migraine, taking it easy
Sandra finished up her newsletter stuff, so finishing that up
Need to close the statements conversation
Non-SDC stuff
design brief for search results filter bar
QA continues
Will write initial text for the community announcement that Beta is ready for poking at
Reading Sandra's updates about potential pilot partners
Still want to do dev page cleaning
But working on lots of non-SDC, so will be distracted
Bug fixing.
Caption length config fixing – what length do we want?
I've had two meetings and gained an awful headache. Might not work the rest of the day.
Sandra is adding her stuff to the newsletter tonight (NA time), sending out the newsletter tomorrow
Looking slightly outside the active abuse filter maintainers to find input for the MCR stuff
Successfully moved out yesterday!
Meeting day today!
Various other busywork and catch-up
Hiring stuff will probably come to a head tomorrow
trying out a very hacky fix for the back button thing ...
I'm back. Reviewing remaining blockers. Error/CAPTCHA support editing needed, it seems.
Meetings!
QA on Beta Commons continues
Perhaps some debates via email :)
Ramsey: You need to help Daniel test his AbuseFilter/MediaInfo patch(es) on the labs instance, he's not sure it won't crash the site
I have to jet right after the standup to get rid of a bunch of garbage in my old apartment, give it a quick wipe-down, and then I'm completely moved out.
Once I get back home, I'll blow through the rest of my backlogs, conduct a quick interview, and ideally be ready for the meeting onslaught tomorrow
Will be finishing the UI copy audit today and sharing with the team, as well as Sandra, whom I've asked for feedback from
exicited to get that out for feedback, because then I can start on search results (primarily designing a filter bar)
been keeping up with phab tickets & adding comments where i can
QA on Beta continues (looking good though)
Sketching out how we manage to work on v1 depicts and other statements while simultaneously fixing Beta
looking at the analytics/event logging stuff
wanna talk about that back button problem
Coming out of a hiring hole to try and recover my inbox today
Tomorrow we'll be making some decisions
Long weekend starts tomorrow - US employees will be off until Tuesday
More working with WMDE on blockers.
I'll be at a conference on Monday/Tuesday.
think I'll give up on this bug https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208260 because I can't find any way of sensibly reproducing it
are there any blockers I can work on? If not will start on the search results smooshed thing
QA continues
Emails and debates :)
Still deciding if I'll take Monday or Tuesday off
Getting the newsletter mostly done
Check up on wiki stuff
Hiring stuff: Looking mostly set - will knock through the rest of it today
Meeting day has returned
UW working again.
Unset caption design change landed too.
Looking at Cormac's patch right now.
QA! Checking fixes and finding more things
Light on meetings today, but a decent amount of administrative stuff to do
isEmpty patch merged
working on the weird error when adding labels ... I might be making a little bit of progress, or I might be kidding myself. Time will tell
Made a bunch of tickets yesterday
Continuing with the UI copy stuff
QA today (so many things are broken)
Emails about the Flickr policy change, monitoring licensing statement convo
Hiring reviews almost done...then we just interview and see what happens
Voting in the late afternoon, so will be afk earlier than usual
Spent most of yesterday understanding situation and fixing a couple of nasty bugs (in Wikidata and Translate) that between them broke everything.
Grabbed a quick design ticket from Pam this morning.
The MCR team have just switched all production to "write both, read new" (T198308); this wasn't a blocker for us as they did Commons early, but is nice. T198312 can begin.
Blocker stuff.
Continuing work on the UI copy audit
Finishing up Depicts Search prototype feedback (will be writing a phab ticket for it)
Statements convo
Mostly it for SDC today
Reviewing GLAM stuff from Sandra
Reschedule launch sync, Mark?
Thinking about baselines again
Gone Tue - Thurs, please mark urgent things urgent
QA for the SDC stuff
Communicating the things to the people
updated isEmpty patch based on review
finished first rough cut of 'virtual statements' prototype, chased Adam for feedback
started EventLogging stuff
Hiring stuff progress! People in the queue.
Today: A few meetings, then hopefully slamming through stuff that I've been dropping
Designed & emailed revised license mocks to Keegan
Interviewing a candidate today
Continuing to work on the UI copy audit
IRC office hours
Statements 2 posting
IRC office hours.
licensing v2 stuff
will sketch out "New Commons" a bit more if I have time