Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/August

2018-08-30

Cormac

• won't be at standup
• have refactored File page php patch based on feedback from Adam/Wikidata
• re-starting js work

Pam

• Won't be at stand-up -- will be attending JMo's research presentation.
• Yesterday was extremely meetingful -- today is much better.
• Making very good progress on the Editing WD on Commons modal situation.

Ramsey

• tons of meetings today
• yesterday, completed high-level doc describing our current machine-assisted depicts taggging thoughts. Sent that to the research team, awaiting feedback
• also yesterday, added the Official Product Manager stance on statement traversal :)
• will try to return to the deck for SDC status meeting on Tuesday

Matthias

• Search proto: other statements

Mark

• Beginning a hiring process - some of you will be involved, but you've been warned (I think)
• Trying to clear out the todo list today

Amanda

• Review creating Wikidata items from Commons
• Review Keegan's property creation doc

2018-08-29

Keegan

• No standup, dept. meeting
• Getting the properties list posted
• Work on the licensing draft

Mark

• Got through a good portion (maybe all?) of the MCR stuff yesterday...feel pretty good about it but obviously I haven't tried writing anything with it
• Meeting day today
  • Pam - I rescheduled us as has become the norm, maybe we should just change our meeting time permanently
• Probably not much time for Real Work today, maybe tomorrow

Cormac

• OOUI on FIle page continues ...
• Have patch from Adam that I can use for a refactoring of my php patch
• may need to miss standup/retro tomorrow, not sure yet
• @Mark my 1:1 with you tomorrow clashes

Matthias

• UW fix going out today
• Replaced deprecated OOUI element in search proto
• Will work on "other statements" tomorrow

Ramsey

• too many things to write
• but fortunately not too many meetings today
• Working on writing a.) rationale for how to handle statement traversal (or lack thereof) b.) very base/high level spec for machine-assisted depicts tagging c.) deck for Tuesday's SDC update meeting

Pam

• Meeting Wednesday!
• Making further progress on Artwork Scenario/Editing WD on Commons + multilingual aspects of that
• Mark, yes, let's permanently change our meeting time (the later time works very well for me)

2018-08-28

Ramsey

• Survived yesterday's meeting extravaganza
• Reviewed the comment discussion on Cormac's statement traversal doc. Have a made a product decision on where we go from here (will document)
• going over proposed properties list with Keegan and Sandra today
• Will work on deck for next Tuesday's stakeholder meeting probably
• Will also try to find time for Machine assisted tagging requirements deck
• parking lot: Need to put up an emergency fix for the broken uploadwizard

Pam

• Great meeting with Ramsey yesterday over editing WD on Commons requirements
• Making progress on Artwork Scenario/editing WD on Commons
• Also attending the property list meeting

Amanda

• Doin' the project page update with Keegan!
• Reviewing GLAM pilot project timeline, Keegan's structured license discussion doc, mobile design brief, creating wikidata items from Commons, Magnus' dev notes, statement traversal thing

Mark

• I've successfully gotten Google on the schedule to log me out once a month right before our standups start
• Yesterday: Some catch-up, some feeling slightly under the weather. Gonna battle through and try to get things done today.

Matthias

• Upgraded ElasticSearch on labs - quantity search now works
• Working on replacing deprecated OOUI element in search prototype
• Need review for UW issue: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard/+/455532/

Cormac

• working on js for FIle page
• have had some feedback on the php patch ... addshore is working on some interfaces they want me to use instead of subclassing

2018-08-27

Keegan

• Licensing draft, get it finished up and out to internal stakeholders
• Few meetings

Mark

• Back from a whirlwind weekend trip
• Will attempt to catch up on email then get back into MCR review stuff

Ramsey

• Only seven meetings today ;)
• Busy week of putting together various presentation decks. Not sure which will get done first.
• With time, I'll review Matthias' labs work (yay)

Pam

• Artwork scenario/editing WD on Commons
• Need to send the design update to the SDC list

Matthias

• Fixed UW issue (campaigns with prefilled categories)
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard/+/455532/
• Upgraded PHP on labs

Cormac

• First part of the File page changes (the php part) in review
  • some trickiness with Wikibase and Depends-On and CI/merging
• javascript part (the hard part) begins in the morning
• will be off work on Friday

Amanda

• First pre-midterm report grant review (features, timeline, and progress)
• GLAM pilot follow up with GLAM team
• Map of stakeholder concerns
• May be off work on Friday

2018-08-23

Keegan

• Can't make standup, meetings most of the day
• Start drafting the licensing conversation this afternoon, at least get the images and sections into a gdoc

Matthias

Away - doctor's appointment

• Search prototype mostly working & Cormac has imported a whole lot of things - let's (try to) get something on beta tomorrow

Pam

• Working on housekeeping stuff this morning (pulling all my work into a spreadsheet & making sure everything is in invision)
• Meeting with Ramsey & Nirzar later today to figure out editing of WD stuff

Mark

• Meeting day went as expected
• Off tomorrow
• Trying to get through MCR stuff today
• PL: Copernicus the cat

Amanda

• George Oates contract
• Respond to Magnus
• Respond to Swedish Cultural Heritage data roundtripping request

Ramsey

• yesterday: meetings, lots of stuff on design, IIIF, other things
• 8 meetings today!
• as usual, I will try (and probably fail) to get to the batch uploading scenario

Cormac

• spent today importing stuff into federated-wikidata for use on labs ... mostly breaking stuff then fixing it
• OOUI tomorrow

2018-08-22

Mark

• Philly hype
• Got through some MCR stuff yesterday, looking good so far, will try to blast through the rest of it before leaving
• Meeting day!!!

Pam

• Extremely meetingful day today
• Finishing up some artwork scenario thoughts & sending over to Ramsey soon
• Read the manual reverts deck & have been researcing it a bit

Keegan

• My throat is scratchy and I have a cough. I'm not okay with this.
• Emails, phabricator, meetings
• Advertise depicts a little more, maybe

Matthias

• Search prototype: keywords/depicts toggle mostly working

Amanda

• Reading manual revert deck
• Responding to Adam's email
• Moar SDC portal!
• Reviewing Cormac's search doc

Ramsey

• yesterday - finished and sent out that manual revert deck that's the hot thing, talk of the town
• meetings
• emails (so many emails)
• will try to get back into batch uploads/editing spec today if I can find the time

Cormac

• talked to the search team yesterday, output from that is a discussion doc that I just shared with them and Ramsey and Amanda
• making (slow) progress on File page OOUI

2018-08-21

Ramsey

• Meeting heavy day again
• Did some stuff with Undo/revert yesterday, will hopefully wrap that up today in prep for Thursday's design/dev chat
• poking people about stuff we need later

Matthias

• Working on search prototype
  • Search term being generated!
  • Next: keywords/depicts toggle

Pam

• Finally able to access labs again, thanks to Ramsey, to check UI copy. Updated this ticket: [⚓ T188502 Implement multilingual captions in UploadWizard](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188502)
• Putting together some artwork scenario stuff for Ramsey to look at
• Doing some research for the Undo function
• Floating last week's WMF holiday to this Friday

Amanda

• Respond to Max's email
• Nudge data migration tool builders

Cormac

• meeting with the search team at 5.30 to discuss depicts of depicts and statement traversal
• working on File page OOUI

Mark

• Schedules are hard
• Today: No meetings, hopefully can get through checking on MCR completeness
• Tomorrow: Back to meetings
• Gearing up to go to Philly on Friday - remember I'll be out

2018-08-20

Matthias

Not around for standup/meetings today - baby-related appointment (and again on Thursday, sorry!)

• Working on search prototype, making good progress on generating search term for keywords & depicts input

Ramsey

• Friday: reviewed and delivered Pam's mock structured licenses designs to Keegan
• Only 4 hours of meetings today! :)
• Working on annual plan documentation that Product team has to do
• hoping to have time to work on slides for batch editing and/or undo today

Mark

• A few meetings
• Have a lot of catchup to do still
• Cormac: How's MCR looking?

Pam

• mocked up examples for the structured licenses community discussion
• can’t access upload wizard on labs (blocker for checking https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189145)
• need to email SDC update
• returning to artwork scenario

Keegan

• Licensing draft that Ramsey sent me - I need to go over it
• Check up on depicts
• Figure out when we're doing our next office hour and newsletter

Cormac

• 'depicts-of-depicts' working properly now, have a meeting with the search team at 5.30 to discuss it and statement traversal in general
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194729 is resolved, which according to Adam Holmes :P means we can start our work on MCR
• started on OOUI stuff ... where are the designs again?

2018-08-16

Matthias

Will likely miss standup (conflict with "interview training")

• Working on search proto

Keegan

• Meetings
• Check up on Depicts, promoting on Wikidata I think
• I owe Community Tech a couple of small tasks today

Pam

• Emailed Matthias additional info re: Search with statements
• Working on structured licences mock for the community consultation
• Refining artwork scenario
• Will need another labs login because I lost mine somehow

Ramsey

• will help Pam with her labs login ;)
• so many meetings
• lots of follow-up emails
• Completed mock-ups for Structured Licenses yesterday (yes I worked a little bit on a day off SHAME ON YOU) and passed them off to Pam
• if I can somehow find the time, will work on Batch uploading spec for Pam

Cormac

• started digging on OOUI
• job queue issue with depicts-of-depicts patch, got some help from Erik so have a new lead

Mark

• That was a weird day off
• MN primary update [PL]
• Meetings to start off my morning (joy)
• May be ducking out a little early for some errands

2018-08-14

Matthias

• Fixed double license selection in UploadWizard
• Sent emails about "other statements" & "related items"

Mark

• Meeting week continues
• Voted! Yay!
• Taking tomorrow off after all. If you *need* a 1:1 this week, please reschedule for Thursday.

Pam

• Sent some replies to Matthias about "related items" and Other Statements (other statements will take more than one email)
• Continuing finishing up the artwork scenario
• Working tomorrow

Ramsey

• Meetings
• Emails, emails, emails
• still trying to make progress on Structured licenses.

2018-08-13

Mark

• Every day is meeting day
• Will be out this afternoon for car maintenance stuffs
• Tomorrow: Voting! Primary! Ahhhhh

Matthias

• Catching up
• Fixed Vagrant
• Working on double license selection in UploadWizard

Ramsey

• Meetings
• A whole mess of emails came in before I woke up. Looking at those.
• Will attempt to return to the structured license spec today.

Keegan

• Can't make standup, will be at backlog grooming
• Meetings first half of the day
• Emails and wikis on the second half
• Closing the properties discussion today or tomorrow

Pam

• Making progress on Batch adding statements & the artwork scenario on UW
• Need to send out Design SDC update

Cormac

• trying to make my depicts-of-depicts job work on vagrant (including finding out what changes in wikibase break everything)
• off tomorrow to go for a birthday picnic with my younger daughter (she's 10!)

Amanda

• Mostly not SDC today
• Ping Magnus re. data migration bots and tools

2018-08-09

Keegan

• Check up on the wikis
• Advertise depicts a little more
• Meetings
• Probably taking a half day after meetings to get vehicle emissions inspection

Mark

• wmflabs figuring done between meetings yesterday
• Meeting day 2: Meet Harder
• Hopefully can slog through some emails in the afternoon, things are getting out of hand

Ramsey

• So many meetings
• Will hopefully get a chance to start doing some structured licenses spec work today

Pam

• Way less meetings today (vs yesterday)
• So yay, batch adding statements in UW

Cormac

• asked search team for feedback on my statement expansion job (and Mark!)
• vagrant autoload woes doing my head in (grrr)

2018-08-08

Cormac

• still slogging away at the statement expansion ... making progress, but need some direction on synchonricity of job queues ... planning to seek help from search team tomorrow

Mark

• Yesterday was not as productive as expected - multiple interrupts
• Meeting day seems somehow more dense today
• Gotta figure out how to get some folks access to the wmflabs instance - looks like things have changed since I last did that

Pam

• Back for good
  • \o/
• End-to-end design of how a user would add a piece of metadata to several pieces of artwork, both in Upload Wizard and elsewhere
• Getting caught up on the design/spec workboard and yay!

Keega...n

• Depicts discussion!
• Set up properties meeeting
• Meetings

Ramsey

• Yesterday: created the new docs Phab project/group and added everybody
• meetings today
• reading responses to depicts spec community consultation

Amanda =

• Bothering Keegan about project page
• Bothering Ramsey about other statements specs
• 1:1 with Ramsey, if he has time :)

2018-08-07

Keegan

• Not at standup
• Posting and communicating about Ramsey's depicts specs on Commons today
• Non-SDC stuff related to time-consuming requests

Mark

• Getting stuff done day!
• Yesterday mostly disrupted due to meetings and appointment

Ramsey

• meeting with Shannon today to talk about the possibility of 3D updates as her 10% time project
• after consulting with Max, decided to go with the Phab approach for tracking design and spec docs. Creating and filling that out today.
• yesterday, polished up a community version of the depicts spec and handed it over to Keegan. Today, revisiting current relevant community discussions

Cormac

• catching up!
• working on statement expansion job ... making progress because I decided to ignore most of my email ... trying to make it generic enough to work for not just depicts-of-depicts (but not too generic ...)

2018-08-06

Mark

• Got through CR column - there's one ticket in there from me
• Meetings conflict this morning - may miss part of task planning
• Doctor appointment this afternoon, will be incommunicado for a bit

Ramsey

• Finishing the polishing of depicts doc
• Working on a new Phab workboard for design and spec docs
• Hopefully will have time to do leftover spec work on batch upload/edit

Keegan

• What's with Monochrome Etherpad?
• Checking up on the wikis
• Scheduling meetings
• Emails
• Phabricator board checkup

Amanda

• working on portal, yay!
  • will send you an email, keegan
• then, if awake on plane, will look at EoY report
  • do any of you have to do one of these?
• uploaded CT farmers market dogs to slack #doggos

2018-08-02

Keegan

• Not at standup, conflicting meeting
• Meetings almost all day
• Emails and catchup

Mark

• Meeting half-day!
• Solidified plans for my trip to Philly - will be off August 24th for travel and my own special brand of tourism
• Will attempt to get through some code review this afternoon, but might need to work on some email backlog instead

Ramsey

• first half of day is full of meetings, as usual
• sent Pam my work so far on artwork depicts
• will try to get more polishing depcits doc

Pam

• Catching up on all the emails/presentation decks
• Out Mon/Tues to settle more properly
• Lining up what best to focus on (Ramsey, can we meet today or tomorrow?)

Amanda

• Are you sufficiently coordinated, Mark?
• FIlling out phab feedback for prog mgmt

2018-08-01

Keegan

• Back, at about 80%
• Playing catchup - emails, Wikimania brain dump
• Non-SDC stuff to do

Mark

• Fixed Flickr uploads (I think) - needed to do some weird stuff with the license picker and also fix a breaking change in a core OOUI widget
• Meeting day today, trying to shave stuff from my todo list in between
• May be taking off a day later in August - have a trip planned (to Philly!!!!)

Ramsey

• emails emails emails
• continuing to work on add/edit depicts statements from depicted artwork
• polishing up depicts spec doc while I'm doing the above ^

Amanda

• coordination emails
• reviewing financial projections