Multimedia/Standup notes/2019/January

2019-01-24 edit

Ramsey edit

double-booked all this morning. will miss standup but be at Dev-Design-Rev
Looking at planning/scheduling for All Hands (including places to eat on Tuesday)
still poking with Plan B search filtering scenarios

Mark edit

Still working out stuff for next week
Handled a few cross-team requests on phab

Pam edit

Spent the morning on CC0 messaging UI today, will be sharing at design:dev chat
Spending the afternoon on search UX

James edit

Production now has PHP7 as a Beta Feature. Tested and all looks fine.
Some community gadgets that relied on CSS classes broke with the train; they're on it.
Will work on the CC0 stuff when it's ready; have one patch already written in advance. ;-)

Cormac edit

depicts on File page ... consolidating markup/css
my annoying cold seems to be about to clear up in time for All-Hands - hooray!

Keegan edit

Community!

Eric edit

Back online!
Will continue working my way through that Onboarding checklist

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

2019-01-23 edit

Keegan edit

On-call for community stuff around captions still
Working out depicts & other statements plan

Mark edit

More onboarding/onboarding prep
Chime in on the team dinner for next week - we should make a reservation soonish!

James edit

Mobile editing support is landing. Very rough, and we should but it works.™
Code review today, hopefully.

Pam edit

Working on a mock for CC0 for captions today
Alongside Ramsey working on search result filtering stuff (future-oriented)

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

Ramsey edit

meetings!
documentation! (Wikidata/Wikibase strategy stuff)
some search result filtering stuff (future work, not to be worried about too much for now)

Cormac edit

depicts on File page - surprise!!!

2019-01-22 edit

Matthias edit

Hangouts Meet won't let me in, apparently...

Depicts in UW

Pam edit

Search filtering with Other Statements

Mark edit

Welcome Eric!
Final prep for all-hands, various onboarding stuff, etc.

James edit

Three day weekend means I've forgotten everything I was doing
Focus on little fixes as Ramsey demands and supporting Cormac/Matthias.

Cormac edit

still depicts on File page ... realised I have to handle the case where there is no data yet

Ramsey edit

Also doing All Hands stuff (might need to chat with Mark)
so many meetings
helping out Pam with search filtering

Eric edit

Hi everyone!
Still figuring things out today

2019-01-17 edit

Mark edit

Looking forward to retro
Looks like Leszek has a plan
A little more onboarding prep for Eric

Matthias edit

Fix broken captions/description input (for multiple lanugage) in UW
Depicts in UW

Pam edit

Per yesterday’s design team feedback, working on ways to make search filtering easier for non-power users. Have two layout versions in mind, will shoot for having both up for testing via usertesting.com by the end of next week.

Amanda edit

Posting some Cunningham business to COM:File_captions
Shipping cookies!
Lurk on the Commons channels

Ramsey edit

got started early with giving people weird bugs and UBN tickets to look at it when they woke up :)
continuing to spot check as much as I can
working on deck for "future" grant meeting tomorrow
1:1 meetings today

Cormac edit

messing about with Matthias's widgets for depicts on File page

Keegan edit

meetings
Community, Community, Community

James edit

Cormac's depicts read-only for file pages now merged in master.
Will probably want to adjust the design to do the tabs?
Need to enable federation in production.

PL:

   Some captions I added last week are not appearing on the pages I added them on. They're ok if I purge the page. Works fine for new captions. Could caches have gotten overwritten someplace?
   Given how we hack around with ParserCache objects, yes, things can get messy.
   Plan for posting list of planned changes tomorrow

2019-01-16 edit

Keegan edit

Continuing the community angle of captions release
Meetings

Mark edit

Onboarding stuff starts in full swing (roughly)
Meeting day of course
Watching, rapt, for Leszek to respond to Amanda
- Just realized I've memorized the task number. That can't be healthy.

Pam edit

Have a filtered search page direction I'm happy with, just getting it ready to send to the team (via email) for discussion & also to share at design review today with the design team

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

James edit

Found, fixed and deployed an UBN bug in TestCommons yesterday. Yay for that.
Some cleanup. Working with Cormac on depicts display patch which is looking pretty good.

Ramsey edit

meeting day!
presentation deck for meeting Friday

[PL]: launch retro tomorrow?

Amanda edit

Starting back up on WMDE/WMF stuff
Keeping an eye on community conversations
Looking at hiring a technical writer for the GLAM team

Cormac edit

feedback on depicts on File page first patch
code review on search prototype and various changes from James

2019-01-15 edit

Mark edit

Had a good chat with Eric about basics around our dev environment, he seems psyched! Should get his laptop today and said he might poke around.
Not many meetings today, so trying to look at tickets and patches more.

Cormac edit

depicts on File page - php part pretty much done, just adding feature flag and beefing up tests
next: reviewing search prototype again, and pinching some of Matthias's code to make the UX work

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

Pam edit

Pushing forward with search filters, thanks to a good talk with ramsey yesterday
Keeping an eye on feedback

James edit

Code review for Comac and Matthias if they need me.
Carefully reviewing test-commons with the new train ahead of tomorrow's train deployment to real Commons.

Amanda edit

Reviewing WD/WB/SD strategy doc
Looking at some GLAM pilots
Going over caption feedback

Ramsey edit

double-checking tickets
selectively answering some community questions now that things have chilled out a bit
meetings
hoping to do some presentation work for things we'll do next year and beyond

PL [James}: Is there a plan for All Staff? Do y'all want me?

Of course we do <3 Monday afternoon, all Tuesday, Weds afternoon
- +1

[Cormac] remove MediaInfoEnable feature flag, does it need a ticket?

[James] I was thinking we'd wait a couple more weeks just in case we need to disable it in an emergency.

2019-01-14 edit

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

James edit

We're stil up.
Some neat fixes written, some of them have landed.
File page design keeps coming up in feedback, shock. :-)

Mark edit

Watching discussions
Chatting with Eric in a bit
Try to make sense of our tickets etc. since launch
Probably take a crack at reading Matthias's patch

Amanda edit

Ordering cookies!
Watching the pages
Bugs

Pam edit

Good design:dev chat last friday, sent Ramsey an email with updates
Filed some tickets/responses for captions

Been working on Searching other statements

Later today will catup on scattered feedback/comments from folks
Meeting with Ramsey after grooming

Cormac edit

depicts on File page
bit of code review

Keegan edit

Community stuff - checking on the wikis

Ramsey edit

catch up on things that have happened over the weekend
meetings
putting out the small fires

2019-01-10 edit

Pam edit

Been writing tickets
Have a workflow for V2 of Search (filtering with any statement)
Will be sharing with Ramsey for review/comments
Afternoon slated for mocking up designs
Will ping Keegan to ask: would you be up for tag-teaming community feedback on File Captions and grouping into categories/themes?

Ramsey edit

meetings
watching for and putting out fires
Doing a thing for Wired magazine about Structured Data
prepping for day trip to the office tomorrow

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

Cormac edit

depicts on File page
fretting about live commons ...

Mark edit

Helping out with testing etc.
A few meetings but nothing too bad
With all of your feedback, submitting a group travel form

Amanda edit

Going to spend a lot of time playing with captions, not even ashamed
Cookie preferences!
Bothering other managers about help getting baselines

2019-01-09 edit

Amanda edit

Cookies
All Hands SDC hangout

Mark edit

Meeting day, of course
Offsite brainstorming? Email me with thoughts
Things seem to be lining up for our release, will be tracking that

Keegan edit

Reminders about captions, keeping the push
Woke with a splitting headache, going to take some time from the screen for a bit

Matthias edit

Changed caption textareas to text iputs
Depicts in UW

Cormac edit

code review
depicts on File page

James edit

Captions appears good to deploy tomorrow. \o/
Final sign-off from everyone appreciated. :-)

Pam edit

Finishing up design brief for search filters (user flow's been written, tech constraints are already figured out, etc.)
Meeting-ful day today
Hoping to get to some sketches before the day is over
Might be able to line up design research support for the Reuse scenario
Would like to attend the IRC office hours, invite me to the cal invite?

Ramsey edit

So much meeting
Misc. communication work between functional groups

2019-01-08 edit

Mark edit

Felt really bad yesterday but better today
Doing some last-minute reviews of our code (non-blocking, I just want to have a good sense of the status firsthand)

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

Pam edit

Writing up/revising a design brief for search filters (much of the discussion's already been had, really)
Hopefully getting to some rough wireframes done by today/tomorrow morning to share with Ramsey

Ramsey edit

following up on ticket conversations
following up on email conversations
will test on testcommons if it's ready
working on some project proposal decks if time permits

Cormac edit

display bug for live
bit of code review
figuring out that search thing
depicts on File page

James edit

Figuring out broken things

Amanda edit

Financial projections still not up to date
Going to bother Ramsey about baselines
Where to ask, "What does Leszek's response mean?"

Parking Lot edit

Just imagine this cat as all brown. He looked like a little bear! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WGt10Zm0ZZc/hqdefault.jpg oh my glob! cuties!
team evening at All-Hands???
- +2

2019-01-07 edit

Keegan edit

Reminding Commons about Caption release
Reminder about testing captions on beta

Matthias edit

Depicts in UW

Amanda edit

More finances, oh boy
Wrapping up and sending grant reviewer responses
Do I need to do more stuff for the prefixes or search things?

Cormac edit

catching up
depicts on File page
@Matthias is that Search prototype ready for review now?
- Not "ready" (T212790, T212262), but absolutely ready for review, yes - cool

Ramsey edit

meetings
catchup on some leftover things from last week
working out all the things that could keep us from launching depicts :)

Pam edit

Lost Thursday due to being out sick, spent most of last week/this morning on housekeeping (self-retro), phab tickets, doc comments, etc.

Mark edit

Perpetual catch-up
- I read this as "pre-nuptial" catch-up
  - That would be one hell of an update
I may be roughly as prepared for on-boarding as I can be now
Should probably sort out a more concrete rollout estimate as we can (@James)
Oh, and I fixed the standup meetings

James edit

https://test-commons.wikimedia.org now exists but is broken. Will be fixing and doing the WBMI switching on/off testing today.

2019-01-03 edit

Matthias edit

Can’t make it today. Didn’t get much work done (unexpected personal interruptions)

Mark edit

More onboarding prep work today
Not much to report from meetings, seems like this week is dedicated to everyone getting back up to speed

Amanda edit

Sending out Denny and Mark's grant report comments (some of y'all will have to respond.)
Catching up on data training

Ramsey edit

A couple meetings, including a Product team meet with katherine
Testing on Beta still, pondering campaigns
Prepping some pres stuff for the future.

Keegan edit

Prep for captions release w/community
Same for statements
Meet with Ramsey later to plan out depicts a lil' bit

James edit

test-commons.wikimedia.org now has DNS and HTTPD config landed (yay)
Next step is to actually create the test wiki in production (gulp)

2019-01-02 edit

Matthias edit

Search prototype changes & questions
- James (input from OOUI expert): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212790
- Ramsey (prioritization): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212776
- Pam/Ramsey (questions): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212262#4848853

Mark edit

Easing back into things
Will be doing some onboarding prep for our two new folks this week, probably stretching throughout the month
Keeping an eye on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211800 but it seems like we're coalescing around Option 3
Otherwise, meeting day

Keegan edit

Getting back into it, checking all the wikis and emails
Brief vet appointment

Amanda edit

Financials again!
Trying to stay out of y'alls way

Pam edit

Writing out todos for the week, lots of catching up to do
Replied to Matthias on Phab, but need to do another reply
Will be sending out the link to ticket structuring doc for team feedback

James edit

Working on creating test-commons.wikimedia.org with SRE, RelEng, and Reedy.
Working from London until the weekend.

Ramsey edit

checking on feedback from the community Beta
tickets! So many tickets :)
QA on beta as usual