Reading/Multimedia/Standup notes/2016/December
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2016-12-01Edit
MatthiasEdit
- Fixed intermittently failing ConcurrentQueue tests (hopefully)
- Working on last refactoring tickets
PrateekEdit
- Working on prototypes on Hype
2016-12-05Edit
MarkEdit
- Feels like I'm finally making progress on triaging our massive backlog. Should finish tomorrow.
BartoszEdit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151061 deployment, not much else
2016-12-06Edit
MarkEdit
- More bug triage, should finish in the next hour.
- Later: CR catch-up, if applicable.
- More later: Actually getting some tasks done. I miss coding.
MatthiasEdit
- Moved checkFile out of mw.UploadWizardUpload, into controller
- Working on more of the "Refactor UW to be maintainable" thingies
JamesEdit
- Quarterly goalsssss Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Editing
- Dependencies: Security, Performance, Services
2016-12-07Edit
MarkEdit
- Not much work done today, but ramping up to get some bugs worked on (since they're all organized and pretty right now)
PrateekEdit
- FA design - blocked on software licenses, but coming along
2016-12-08Edit
MarkEdit
- Step 1: Look at bugs. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Bugs are fixed.
- CR glances today as well.
MatthiasEdit
- Fixed tutorial step logging
- Working on changing error handling conform recent change in API error output & fix errors with missing $1 params
2016-12-13Edit
MatthiasEdit
- Changing UW error handling, conform new API error output
- Making UW use mw.Api instead of XMLHttpRequest
(I was late taking notes, add whatever is missing)
BartoszEdit
- Code review
MarkEdit
- Discussed cross-wiki search API w/ Prateek
JamesEdit
(missed, while typing the others)
2016-12-14Edit
MarkEdit
- Worked a little on UW performance
- Chatted with Prateek about FA search API use, I think we've come to some conclusions, but it also sounds like design/user research will be a step.
JamesEdit
- Trying not to get eaten?
BartoszEdit
- CR mostly
- Nasty UW bug fixed
2016-12-15Edit
- Team availability significantly lower over the next two weeks.
MatthiasEdit
- Refactoring of how UW deals with API (and other) errors
- Also fixed issue with corrupt files not providing a detailed enough error
- Stop using XMLHttpRequets in UW, use mw.Api instead
- Next: similar API error refactorings in Upload.BookletLayout.js
MarkEdit
- Yesterday: UW performance on details step, continuing today
- Also dealing with grrrit-wm silliness.
- Meetings x∞
JamesEdit
- Deployments about to end
PrateekEdit
- Task filed for design prototypes/research
- Star Wars!!!!!!!!!
2016-12-20Edit
- Limited availability continues!
MarkEdit
- Patch for loading upload interfaces on scroll in the details step is up, could use review
- Had a thought (in IRC) about grouping uploads. May work on that at the tech days/hackathon/dev summit or whatever we're calling it now
MatthiasEdit
- Redid mw.Api & error messages patches in different order
- Using parsed messages from API now instead of building them on client
- Going to (try to) do the same for BookletLayout
BartoszEdit
- Performance things in OOUI, mostly for VE, some may help UW
- Some patches to review, tomorrow
2016-12-22Edit
- Off next week, see you in the new year!
MarkEdit
- Took yesterday off. Today: Checking for new things in Phabricator, trying to fix at least not zero of them
- Tomorrow probably more of the same.
- Nobody else came!