Reading/Multimedia/Standup notes/2016/December

2016-12-01

Matthias

• Fixed intermittently failing ConcurrentQueue tests (hopefully)
• Working on last refactoring tickets

Prateek

• Working on prototypes on Hype

2016-12-05

Mark

• Feels like I'm finally making progress on triaging our massive backlog. Should finish tomorrow.

Bartosz

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151061 deployment, not much else

2016-12-06

Mark

• 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.

Matthias

• Moved checkFile out of mw.UploadWizardUpload, into controller
• Working on more of the "Refactor UW to be maintainable" thingies

James

• Quarterly goalsssss Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals#Editing
• Dependencies: Security, Performance, Services

2016-12-07

Mark

• Not much work done today, but ramping up to get some bugs worked on (since they're all organized and pretty right now)

Prateek

• FA design - blocked on software licenses, but coming along

2016-12-08

Mark

• Step 1: Look at bugs. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Bugs are fixed.
• CR glances today as well.

Matthias

• Fixed tutorial step logging
• Working on changing error handling conform recent change in API error output & fix errors with missing $1 params

2016-12-13

Matthias

• 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)

Bartosz

• Code review

Mark

• Discussed cross-wiki search API w/ Prateek

James

(missed, while typing the others)

2016-12-14

Mark

• 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.

James

• Trying not to get eaten?

Bartosz

• CR mostly
• Nasty UW bug fixed

2016-12-15

• Team availability significantly lower over the next two weeks.

Matthias

• 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

Mark

• Yesterday: UW performance on details step, continuing today
• Also dealing with grrrit-wm silliness.
• Meetings x∞

James

• Deployments about to end

Prateek

• Task filed for design prototypes/research
• Star Wars!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-20

• Limited availability continues!

Mark

• 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

Matthias

• 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

Bartosz

• Performance things in OOUI, mostly for VE, some may help UW
• Some patches to review, tomorrow

2016-12-22

• Off next week, see you in the new year!

Mark

• 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!