Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/October
2018-10-31
editHappy Halloween!
Mark
edit- Won't make it to standup, attending the QCI
- Still trying to sort out hiring stuff, hopefully will make progress
Keegan
edit- Licensing v2 is the name of the day
- IRC office hours reminder posting
James
edit- his computer has crashed! (so I'll write his notes)
- doing config/testing in beta cluster - has to work out why we're getting the wrong error msgs from wikibase
Cormac
edit- trying to document/draw a line under what I've done on virtual statements so far so I can move on to ...
- upload wizard metrics
- and then depicts via UW
Amanda
edit- trapped on the bart
- last grant doc tweaks
- Reading ramsey's ontological purity deck
Ramsey
edit- helping Pam and Keegan with the licensing stuff
- following discussions
Pam
edit- not here, at QCI still
- been chugging away at the UI copy audit
- have been talking with Ramsey about licenses and linking qualifier values
- sooo many meetings today, but all productive :)
2018-10-30
editMark
edit- Continuing to work through resumés, slowly
- My afternoon is pretty well shot but hopefully have some time to get through some of the needful this morning
Pam
edit- Still working on that UI copy audit
- Also rolling up feedback on the search prototype (which phab ticket to put feedback on?)
- Might miss tomorrow's standup because I'll be attending the QCI meeting
Cormac
edit- virtual statements prototype ... the end is in sight (I think)
James
edit- GORDON, IT'S ALIVE!
- WBMI now enabled on Beta Cluster Commons
- Will be testing throughout the day. Still helping the Wikibase team (thanks Adam!) with a bunch of fixes.
- Will make the copy changes from Pam.
Ramsey
edit- Last night, thought about how to do some things for referring to rationale for public domain in structured licenses
- today, finishing writing all that out and passing on to Pam
- W00t -pam
2018-10-29
editPam
edit- Launched the caption study friday - ran into system errors (unable to save captions), so cannot fully launch :(
- Finishing up an email with feedback/suggestions from the one usability test
- Continuing to work on the UI copy audit
- Meeting with Ramsey later to catch up on what to prioritize this week
Mark
edit- Going to try to bomb through all of the resumés today, wish me luck.
- Still a little behind on e-mail, that's probably a fair bit of tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- catch-up and leftover emails from post-TechConf
- going to tryyyy to see if we can get things on beta...finally
James
edit- More deployment fun. Beta Cluster ahoy.
Keegan
edit- Working on comms stuff; need to write out a blog post from notes
- Bunch of meetings, e-mails etc. to do today
2018-10-25
editJames
edit- Deployment moves slowly forward; WBMI now installed but disabled on Beta Cluster https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180981
- Have a ticket for Wikibase configuration fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207683
- Will **probably** deploy enablement to Beta Cluster in an hour or so
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
Keegan
edit- Much the same as yesterday, quietly working on wiki stuff
- Re-doing WikiconNA expense report because there is yet another new expense report template out
Mark
edit- Meetings light this week, so spending lots of time on resumés and stuff
- Continuing to recover from backlogs also
Pam
edit- Working on the UI Copy audit
- Launching usability study soon (need to touch base with Daisy beforehand)
- Forgot: also have to finish giving feedback to the grant report draft
Amanda
edit- Assigned some grant report stuff to Sandra and Ramsey
- Deadline tonight, should be back to SDC stuff tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- TechConf!
- Interviewing Eric today
- More talking about ontology and data stuff
Cormac
edit- dervied statements prototype
2018-10-24
editMark
edit- My meeting day dissolved. We should have TechConf more often!
- So, back to backlogs. Probably reading a lot of resumés today.
- Will have more on hiring stuff tomorrow.
Cormac
edit- trying out a quick(ish) test implementation of virtual statements
Keegan
edit- Captions communications and blog planning
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
James
edit- Deployment progress derailed (see what I did there?) by the MW train taking 6 hours yesterday.
- Working on this with Addshore.
Amanda
edit- Reviewing grant financial report
- Landed myself a mountain of work on another project, so a bit overwhelmed. Ping me if you need me!
Pam
edit- Meeting day
- Coworking with Alex Hollender!
- Still working on launching the usability study
- Still need to read through the grant report
2018-10-23
editMatthias
edit- Depicts in UW
James
edit- Some progress with Beta Cluster deployment.
- Working with addshore on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207683 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/469209 to move forward.
- Fingers crossed.
Mark
edit- Scrambling a bit on some hiring details
- Continuing to catch up from a week away - pretty close actually
Pam
edit- Got caught up on emails and slide decks
- Setting up user testing today
- Reading over the grant report draft & making edits
Cormac
edit- crap! forgot all about standup!
- trying to figure out how feasible it is to implement virtual statements
2018-10-22
editCormac
edit- have been working on rudimentary decks for
- SDoC-with-localised-data https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SS_TssDVeJ4VlgkapbhcI0sUsn4YDAYetFH6j1-ft5A/edit#slide=id.g44176695f7_0_65
- SDoC-with-distributed-data https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CbLB84eeAKKvVuMn-Fg5bJavXiYKe7KdbSNAbMmA43o/edit#slide=id.g453d04b880_0_125
- (2nd draft of the latter cos the first draft was torpedoed by that email thread Amanda sent around)
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
- Amanda's email discussion has implications for this I think
- Good to know, will check
- Amanda's email discussion has implications for this I think
Note: plan to be gone October 31 & after
Mark
edit- Coming back in, catching up on backlogs
- (brief) hiring update!
James
edit- Getting back in the saddle
- Plan to encourage WMDE to help get Beta Cluster Wikidata setup deployed
Ramsey
edit- at TechConf so mostly lurking
2018-10-18
editMatthias
editWill miss standup & design:devs chat (in hospital - checkup)
- Depicts in UW
Pam
edit- Have uploaded individual files on Labs for the File Caption usability test
- Still need to create and paste in the individual test scripts for ten participants (because i'm using individual file urls to test the captions)
- Had a good meeting with WMDE folks today about more design collaboration (overall, not just limited to SCD)
- Off Fri/Mon, back Tuesday bright and early
Ramsey
edit- meeting #3 today already :)
- continuing to work on "explainer" deck for depicts/ontology woes
- will perhaps get a chance to update the machine aided depicts deck
Cormac
edit- trying to figure out how I might implement virtual statements
Amanda
edit- grant repoooooooort
2018-10-17
editMatthias
edit- Depicts in UW
Pam
edit- Met with Daisy yesterday re: MLC usability study
- Need to set study up on Usertesting.com
- Prep for design:dev meeting tomorrow
Ramsey
edit- meetings
- 3-5 year planning/tech conf stuff continues
- will try to knock out most of that Ontology slide deck so we can move the email thread over there and (hopefully) get some clarity/conclusions
- also may not make it through the entire day depending on how the teeth holes feel
Cormac
edit- updating documentation, mostly - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseMediaInfo and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207289
2018-10-16
editCormac
edit- have a working patch for is empty https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207016 ... have had one review from David, waiting for another
- still thinking about searching and data modelling etc - trying to see if I can display search data on File page
- question from David about licensing
Pam
edit- Finishing up the MLC usabillity study prototcol
- Meet with Daisy to set up study
- Meeting with Max
- Meetings, meetings
Ramsey
edit- attempting, as always, to reconcile differences of opinion about data model/architecture
- will be visiting the dental surgeon today to address the wisdom teeth (which may or may not come out today)
- TechConf/3-5 year planning stuff
- PL : ontology!
Matthias
edit- Depicts in UW
Amanda
edit- Moar grant report
- Moar QCi
Both hopefully done tomorrow (especially the QCi,
2018-10-15
editPam
edit- Completed an engineer interview (Jenny), have to fill out scorecard now
- Continuing work on the File Caption user study protocol (in advance of meeting Daisy tomorrow re: usertesting dot com)
Matthias
edit- Tech task review
- Depicts in UW
Ramsey
edit- a morning filled with meetings (including a Jenny interview)
- dentist stuff over the next couple of days (getting bones ripped out of my head)
- planning tech conf stuff/3-5 year planning
James
edit- [I'm now light blue?]
- Talked briefly with Amir about how to configure Wikidata as a federated source (at first on Beta Cluster)
- Will try to bully^Wencourage Wikidata friends to merge Matthias's patch making non-SDC<->SDC diffs work.
- Production Commons is now running READ-NEW MCR data, yay. \o/
- I'll be off in Portland for the rest of the week doing Infrastructure team things.
Cormac
edit- interviewed someone (Jenny), filled out scorecard (on Fri)
- today spent working on isEmpty ...
Amanda
edit- QCi
- Grant report draft review and deliverables
Keegan
edit- Writing things
- Good coverage post by Ramsey into a wiki page
- Finish up a few slides for this weekend
- Caption release communications plan
2018-10-11
editMark
edit- More meetings today (but fewer)
- I *will* get through the hiring backlog today
Keegan
edit- Meetings
- Keeping an eye on the search consultation
- Working on a couple presentations
- Good coverage page draft
Pam
edit- Finally replied to the infamous Depicts email thread
- Pulling together some more info for the grant report
- Going to be working on the File Caption user study protocol for the rest of the day
- Will peek at the current consultation
Matthias
edit- Started working on depicts in UW
James
edit- Reviewing Cormac's security patch. If we get Brian happy enough to sign-off, I'll do the beta cluster deployment.
Ramsey
edit- meetings
- 3-5 year planning
- TechConf session stuff
- still exploring machine-assisted depicts stuff (when time permits)
Cormac
edit- thinking about search versus modelled data, and messing about with elastic search
2018-10-10
editJames
edit- Spent almost all of yesterday re-building my vagrant image so I can re-test. :-( Good news is that most things look good.
- Will do review of Matthias's diff patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206629
- Filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206646 about the experience for non-Commons wikis – product decision needed on if this should block deploy
- Filed lower-priority question https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206645 about the API
Matthias
editNot around for standup
- Mostly only just fixed pre-/post MI diffs (or well, got that patch in good condition)
Mark
edit- This week is pretty crazy.
- Meeting day today!
- Will attempt to get some hiring stuff done as well.
Pam
edit- Sent Matthias some annotated statement designs for the depicts prototype
- Have to edit the depicts flow today and send that to Matthias also (need to remove the WD client editor screens)
- Still need to reply to Sandra/Alex re: that email thread that keeps going :)
- Other than that meetings meetings meetings
Amanda
edit- So much QCi presentation building
- Very much grant report writing
Ramsey
edit- Tech Conf! I'm leading the Data session and have some things to do
- 3-5 year planning docs still consume [so very] much time
- Answering questions about the search prototype
Cormac
edit- spend a lot of the day panicking about stuff that was apparently broken, but it turns out it's ok (elasticsearch in vagrant was running out of memory and crashing)
- have been doing some thinking/experimenting with retrieving data from elasticsearch for display on the frontend
- working through the security issues
2018-10-09
editCormac
edit- It's merged!
- hehe \o/
- PL: discuss implications of breaking equivalence between search data in modelled data
- been thinking about searching and data modelling - see
Ramsey
edit- PL: discuss security review results and assign tasks
- many meetings today
- working on refining ML plans
- helping people sort out data modelling (email threads are fun)
- 3-5 year planning docs if I get a chance
James
edit- Re-testing all of the MCR integration now things have landed and looking for snagging issues
- Review of outstanding tickets esp. SR
- [PL] Loose mocks of overall designs, e.g. reader-facing file page, would be helpful.
Mark
edit- Looks like things are coming together!
- Lots of resumés to get through today - hiring pipeline looks good - y'all should have face-to-face interviews coming soon
Pam
edit- Have to reply to an email thread about depicts (will take time to write)
- Gather timelines of designs for Jonathan Curiel
- Documentation
- Going to be finding time to move yesterday's missed 1:1 with Ramsey
Matthias
edit- Merged Cormac's patch
- Working on issue in wikibase when diffing pre & post mediainfo slot revisions
- Is this the initial-MI diff? [Yes] Is there a task for it?
- Diffing a file's first revision (no MI data) with a later (w/ MI data) revision fails - working on a patch, have not yet filed task (or is there one already?)
- Neat. No known task to me.
- Diffing a file's first revision (no MI data) with a later (w/ MI data) revision fails - working on a patch, have not yet filed task (or is there one already?)
- Is this the initial-MI diff? [Yes] Is there a task for it?
2018-10-08
editCormac
edit- Tracked down another bug in MCR, Daniel working on it (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174035 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/465157 )
- that fixed the caching/purging issue, Daniel says he hopes it'll be merged sometime this week
- Adam's patch not merged yet
- Waiting on review for my MCR patch
- probably tomorrow can start thinking about non-MCR stuff again
Matthias
edit- Tech task review
2018-10-04
editMark
edit- Hiring stuff going well - may get a chance to breathe today
- Today and tomorrow is the time for me to finally slay the backlog I've been complaining about
Keegan
edit- IRC office hour in one hour, so that
- Search prototype discussion posting
Matthias
edit- Fixing UW caption submission
Pam
edit- Added two search scenarios to Keegan's doc, as well as some other minor additions
- Still writing out/documenting the editing issues w/ depicts/other statements on Commons vs Wikidata - will finish today
- WIll be lurking irc during office hours
- Nothing to share/discuss for today's design:dev chat - what can we use that time for?
Amanda
edit- So excited for office hours!
- QCi first draft
Ramsey
edit- morning full of meetings/IRC office hour (which is kind of a meeting)
- 3-5 year planning stuff, of course
Cormac
edit- MCR patch ready for proper review ... Adam's patch still not merged
- I *think* the cache purging thing might be a red herring, haven't tracked it down for sure yet (suspect it might be something up with vagrant)
2018-10-03
editKeegan
edit- Finish up the search prototype talk page post
- Post said post.
Cormac
edit- MCR stuff working, just trying to get it past CI
- The Wikibase patch I need isn't merged yet (probably cos it's a public holiday in Germany)
- haven't got the cache purging stuff figured out yet
Mark
edit- Meeting day round 2,302
- I need to sort out my inbox today or it will never happen
Pam
edit- Added some stuff to Keegan's search prototype doc - want to add some more
- Been writing out how best to incorporate/surface the Wikidata Editor (it's tricky) & designing a few versions.
- Meetings throughout the day
Ramsey
edit- meetings!
- emails!
- yesterday, got to completion/near completion on the Search documentation. Waiting for Cormac for final approval
- 3-5 year planning stuff
Matthias
edit- Fixing UW caption submission
2018-10-02
editMatthias
edit- Search proto on labs in good condition to test
- Looked at depicts work
Pam
edit- Prepping stuff for Matthias for Depicts
- Need to make changes to Wikidata Editor (modal) but that's not needed for the Depicts prototype
James
edit- More review of Cormac's MCR patch with Adam S.; looking close!
- Talked to MCR folks; cannot yet proceed with T189220 as it needs other work first.
- [PL] Loose mocks of overall designs, e.g. reader-facing file page, would be helpful.
Mark
edit- Interviews have made Tuesday meeting day
- More resumé review later in the afternoon
- Really ought to catch up on backlogs as well
Amanda
edit- More grant report draft review
- Catching up on where we are with designs/building things/community announcements
Ramsey
edit- yesterday - lots of unexpected communications (but productive!)
- started on updating the SDC search documentation, will finish that today
- emails, emails, emails
- 3-5 year planning madness continues
Cormac
edit- MCR continues ... the *main* bug seems to be solved now, but I haven't quite caught up enough to be sure
- we need some UploadWizard work after all - was gonna write up a ticket and maybe pass it to Matthias?
- Absolutely, pass it on!
2018-10-01
editKeegan
edit- OoO until noon PDT, errands
- Check up on the wikis
- Work on search prototype comms and "all files at once" comms
Amanda
edit- Not really here, but how are we doing with integration bugs? Can someone send me a list of phab tickets?
Cormac
edit- Still working MCR, lots of back and forth with Adam/Daniel ...
Mark
edit- Hiring stuff is going to dominate the day (again, sigh) with hopefully some time to catch up on the ol' inbox later.
- Datacenter switchover may happen a little later than planned (not the 9th, but the 11th), which may mean no deployments next week.
Pam
edit- Anwered most/all of Sandra's comments on the Depicts Invision clickable prototype
- Today working on the test protocol for the MLC user study (using User Testing dot com)
James
edit- MCR readiness status, oy.
- I messed up all our boards, hahahaha (if you have any questions, we can talk about that)
- I created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205732 as the top-level "SDC code ready" task
- On (my duplicate) Security review task, Lydia asked if a second one was needed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200279#4626430
- [Maybe not?] Going to look at Matthias's search patch
Matthias
edit- Worked on search prototype feedback - updated on labs
- Work on incorrect Concept URI in sidebar
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205836 (that's that sidebar thing)
Ramsey
edit- Documentation day (3-5 year planning, search documentation)
- reviewing design stuff with Pam