Multimedia/Standup notes/2017/June

2017-06-01

Matthias

• Review take home tests
• Make MMV use mw.storage

2017-06-05

Matthias

• Review take home test
• Fixed flipped 3d thumb

2017-06-06

Matthias

• Annual reviews
• Fix disappearing MMV/3D controls

Mark

• Strategy stuff, got distracted by errands yesterday as well
• Working on infinite vertical rotation, not convinced it's possible within our current system

2017-06-07

Mark

• Heuristic evaluation is up, so I'll spend some time with that today
• Interview stuff a bit later
• In between: Task hunting?

Matthias

• Fixed disappearing MMV controls when coming back from fullscreen - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357625
• Interviews

2017-06-12

Matthias

• Review take home test
• See if search picks up STL files fine

Mark

• Take home test review
• Going to look into board tasks and see what I can take on

Chris

• Responded to 3D outreach email
• Will post to admin noticeboard

Anthony

• Was catching up with other stuff last week
• Cross-browser testing suspect, trying to run on another tool
• Exploratory testing this week

Adam

• Meeting with Nirzar today for 3D stuff
• Strategy sessions done, will make (most of) standups this week
• Friday off

2017-06-13

Matthias

• Not much, Vagrant...

Adam

• Rumble around mp3 support
• Went through 3D tasks with Nirzar

2017-06-14

Mark

• Scrum of Scrums today - anything I need to add last-minute?
• Continuing to rattle around our workboard today, maybe some CR for Matthias

Matthias

• Fixed 3d2png - was broken after recent update of one of its dependencies
• Disabled MMV 3D arrow controls for rotation
• Working on launching MMV by clicking raster image

Chris

• Holding off on bugging Commons admins until wikilegal post is up
• I have some feedback from other CLs on reaching out to admins on Commons. Look for an email soon. :)

Adam

• Nirzar has claimed some tasks in the 3D board, that means he needs to provide some mocks
• MP3 discussion...need to discuss what we want to work on and when

2017-06-15

Matthias

• Open MMV by clicking 3D thumb

Adam

• We'll extend an offer to prospective engineer
• Gone through 3D board with Nirzar
• Out tomorrow
• Interviewed PM candidate

Chris

• Share(d) feedback from CLs

Anthony

• Closed browser issues bug - was a problem with simulator
• Go through the board & familiarize with the bugs
• Other stuff on other teams

Mark

• Lots of meetings yesterday, and had to bring my cat to the vet :(
• Trying again to get into code review today.

2017-06-20

Matthias

• Fixed 3D panning
  • Patch to disable panning also up, if we still want that
• Working on different duplicate warnings for remote & local repo

Adam

• Budget things
• 3D tasks
• From Chris: How to engage people on 3D stuff (email)

Mark

• Tech tasks reviewed
• Diving back into task board today...
• Reschedule task triage meeting?

2017-06-21

Mark

• Yesterday: Preliminary tests of performance on beta cluster
• Today: Continuing with a more robust test (1000x400KB STL files), working on a script to do it now.
  • Matthias: Maybe SSH in and run conversion simultaneously?
  • xvfb-run ... 3d2png.js manually on a bunch of files simultaneously?
  • /usr/bin/xvfb-run -a -s “-ac -screen 0 1280x1024x24” /srv/deployment/3d2png/deploy/src/3d2png.js file.stl 500x500 file.png &
  • ^ that in a loop

Matthias

• Working on different duplicate warnings for remote & local repo

Chris

• Not much
• Waiting for wikilegal

Adam

• Chris - anything expected of us?
  • Chris: No.
• MP3? Automatic detection?
• Maybe hire soon???

2017-06-22

Mark

• Built a script to test STL files - discovered that my test files are text/plain STLs, so need to allow those on beta before continuing
• Will push out schema change for search today if I can

Matthias

• Differentiate between local/foreign duplicate uploads
• Working on a quick fix for something in ImageGallery that got merged last week and is spamming the logs

2017-06-26

Mark

• Looking into STL text files to figure out wtf they don't thumbnail
• Meetings meetings meetings
• Wondering about hiring status

Matthias

• Investigate thumbs
• Review tech task

Adam

• Nirzar working on stuff in Zeplin
• Anthony: okay to attend once every week or two; we should @mention in Phabricator and use mailing list

Chris

• Waiting for wikilegal
• Draft about mp3 on Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/MP3_patrol_discussion

Anthony

• Not much, just here to listen
• Trying to sort out a good cadence for attending the standups

2017-06-27

• Here, have some kittens http://mollywhite.net/mewtube

Mark

• Might actually have time to get something done today (no meetings)
• Looking at thumbnailing, have to debug some Vagrant crap first
• Haven't done the latest take-home test yet - where are we on hiring?

Matthias

• Reviewed tech task
• Fixed UW on betacommons (gadget issue)
• Looked into thumbnailing issues on betacommons (may be related to T166013?)
• Handle upload errors caused by network connection issues better in the upload dialog

Adam

• Hiring: Still waiting, but go for more tech tasks
• Nothing else going on really

2017-06-28

Matthias

• Better upload error handling in upload dialog
  • Make uploads more robust via chunked/retry uploads - done
  • Horrible error message - todo

Mark

• No big update - thumbnail investigations yesterday not terribly fruitful
• Tech task review done (and then one hour later, obviated)
• More vagrant stuff today, sigh
• Will do a round of CR as well

2017-06-29

• Metrics today!

Mark

• Meeting re: Commons tools for curation in a bit
• Merged some 3D code, have some core upload dialog code to review today
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169114 filed and pinged at SoS, no activity yet

Adam

• Not much on the 3D front...potential opportunity to have someone else provide some code/textured object files
• Nirzar will ping people when he has solid mocks on Zeplin
• Nothing on MP3, Chris maybe
• Meeting re: Commons tools for curation (with Mark)
• Out after today until the 12th

Chris

• Draft on MP3 out there - seeing if community bites at all
• Wanted to check in!

Matthias

• Fixed up network connectivity related errors in upload dialog
• Fixed failure handling in chunked uploads patch
• Looking into 3d2png deploy patch WRT beta puppet issues