Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/December

2018-12-20

Matthias

• Search prototype changes

Cormac

• depicts on File page

Pam

• Search results
• Image annotations - will be looking for links/resources

Mark

• Happy new year y'all - see you on the other side
• Working through the last little bits to tie up before break - will take a half-day tomorrow

Ramsey

• a few meetings
• QA on Beta
• emails on various topics, including a possible depicts AI partnership with a GLAM

2018-12-19

Pam

• Proposals
• Getting back to search results later today

Ramsey

• Adding proposals on behalf of people outside of audiences
• misc. admin stuff (offsite scheduling, Berlin notes, etc.)
• QA and user feedback on Beta

Matthias

• Making search prototype more robust (removing some temp hacks)

Mark

• Meeting day!
• Sorting out some various stuff before the holiday break

2018-12-18

James

• Resolved integration test issue. Patch to add it to gate soon to be merged.
• Did a fix for T209380 and looked at a few other not-crisis tickets.
• Looked at a couple of new tasks and asked for design/product decision on what to do.
• Talked to Ed about OOUI stuff for Matthias's search prototype and other bits and bobs.
• See you in January!

Ramsey

• proposals
• QA stuff on Beta
• looking over tickets

Mark

• More working through perspectives
• Meeting in a bit with James and a few others to talk about some deployment things

Matthias

• Making search prototype more robust (removing some temp hacks)

Pam

• Search results: made a ticket for the initial Depicts release, will be making another ticket for the dropdown media type filter. still working on the future-oriented search results.
• Proposals

Cormac

• depicts on File page

2018-12-17

James

• Hello from London.
• Merged Cormac's patch for non-table file captions display.
• Still hitting my head against integration tests.
• Follow-up design tweaks for non-table file captions.
• Depicts ("digital representation of") got created by the community: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6243

Matthias

• Working on search prototype feedback

Mark

• Fending off senioritis
• Working through the perspectives documents (it's going...okay)

Pam

• Senioritis is real
• But search results iterations don't stop...
• Will be working with Ramsey in our meeting later to answer questions

Ramsey

• Answering questions and making decisions
• A few meetings
• Writing up proposals for 3-5 year planning (which anyone can do!) https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Audiences/2018_Call_for_proposals

Keegan

• Spreading word of beta testing???
• +1 — James

Cormac

• now working on statement display on File page (the php part)

2018-12-13

Matthias

• Working on search prototype feedback

Keegan

• Will be OoO most of the day
• Couple of meetings, though

Pam

• Revised design brief for Search Results & have some possible V1 treatments to share for our design:dev discussion
• Spending some time on 3-5 year proposals
• Meeting with Daisy later to do an Airtable walkthrough

Mark

• Meeting day continues
• That's probably all I can do today though

Cormac

• Finishing OOUI-ifying File page progressing
• participating a little bit in the Beta discussions

James

• Loads of Beta/config discussions with Daniel and others.
• Code review of Daniel's and Cormac's stuff.
• Today's my last day in the office until January.

Ramsey

• answering questions
• testing/double-checking beta
• misc. documentation
• meetings, of course

2018-12-12

Mark

• Meeting day!
• Congratulate our new members :)

Keegan

• Pushing gently on Comms for blog text review
• Checking up on the wikis
• Non SDC, All-Hands week planning stuff

Ramsey

• meetings
• looking at Beta and making sure nothing secretly broke
• did some WMDE strategy/tactics stuff yesterday and this morning (should be done with that for the rest of the year...he says, hopefully)

James

• Good news: I had a crazy plan and it might just have worked. Beta is back up.
• Bad news: Federation is off until bits of Wikibase are re-written. Task from Daniel forthcoming.
• Current focus is working with RelEng on our integration with other repos so we can avoid future breakage, hopefully.

Pam

• Still working on Search Results versions
• Prepping for a fruitful design:dev discussion on search for tomorrow
• Meeting day

Amanda

• Enroll in your benefits!
• Bothering Mark about API goal
• Giving Lydia and Leszeck a heads up about federation

Cormac

• Continuing prep work for depicts on File page (tests done, working on OOUI stuff)
• unlikely to finish depicts before Christmas - should finish displaying statements, but prob not editing

Matthias

• Depicts in UW
• Will work on search prototype feedback tomorrow

2018-12-11

Cormac

• Continuing prep work for depicts on File page (still doing tests, OOUI stuff next)

Matthias

• Depicts in UW

Mark

• Feeling good about catch-up
• Today, on to making sense of our patches and tasks
• Ongoing hiring clean-up
• Holiday backstop assignments...

Ramsey

• 3-5 year planning stuff recommences!
• Reviewing what Mikhail did for the Wikidata incompleteness issue (see https://people.wikimedia.org/~bearloga/reports/wikidata-incompleteness.html)
• Thinking of ideas for a potential future working agreement in prep for the Berlin meeting (which I won't be attending physically, but maybe remotely)

James

• Daniel is digging into T211237.
• Other stuff as before when my supporting him is not occupying my time.

Pam

• Working on V1 + V2 versions of Search results

2018-12-10

Keegan

• Poke Ed and finish up blog post
• Housekeeping on phabricator
• Non-SDC stuff

Mark

• Getting caught up today or die trying
• All-hands registration reminder
• More hiring updates

Pam

• Iterating on Search results page

James

• Productive MCR meeting this morning.
• Will be working with Wikidata to see if we can fix the current Beta Breakage and the one remaining blocker (mobile editing) and also the text trimming concern.
• Will be working with RelEng to see if we can get that integration test working and then landed into the gates for MW and Wikidata.
• PL: Roll-off.

Matthias

• Depicts in UW

Cormac

• started preparatory work on depicts-on-file-page (T211134, then T203934, then T204264)

Ramsey

• can't test on Beta so will do other things!
• Meeting with Pam about stuff
• probably work more on System Stories and share draft
• I have a non-SDC deck to make for the Berlin meeting I'm not going to

Amanda

• Planning and finance stuff.
• Per Nirzar, don't worry about CleanChanges any more.

2018-12-06

Keegan

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/copyright_status YYYYAAAAAAYYYYY
  • YAAAAAAAAAYY
• Meetings first half of the day
• OoO second half of the day for personal errands, didn't make it yesterday
• Will be at retro for the last 20mins if we need to talk about Community stuff
• Sending the newsletter out tomorrow. Was holding it to include the Captions testing announcement.

Matthias

• Depicts in UW

Mark

• Fewer meetings!
• Retro fun times!
• A little more catch-up and some errands in the afternoon

Pam

• Been sorting through Search results feedback from the design team
• Organizing project info/admin[type stuff
• Going to be be thinking through some issues with Search results & documenting thoughts/sharing out
• Reminder: off tomorrow

Ramsey

• I've been up too long already
• A few meetings with the team
• quarterly goal stuff

Cormac

• struggling through integration tests (bad token errors) ... just occurred to me to look at the WB tests for hints, so doing that now

James

• Daniel looking at our wbentities issue.
• After that, will go back to looking at mobile editing stuff.

Amanda

• Still mapping dependencies

2018-12-05

James

• OK, T211052 is fixed and merged (thanks Cormac!).
• I also fixed the header duplication, and killed off our use of page_props (T205417).
• AbuseFilter code tweaked; should land later today.
• BUT, Beta is still having an issue when you click edit; looking into it.
  • (that's the wbgetentities failure, I expect)
    • Yes, but I thought that was meant to be fixed by T211052 :-(

Mark

• Meeting day!
• Yesterday: Not much productivity due to under-weather-ness
• Hopefully between meetings I can catch up on the uncountable email threads

Keegan

• Keeping the WD copyright conversation going
• Blog tinkering
• Half-day either today or tomorrow to take care of some stuff

Amanda

• Gooooooooooooals for Q3 (cue vuvuzela)
  • Including airtable dependencies, oh joy

Matthias

• Back to depicts in UW

Pam

• Finishing up search results mocks for design team sharing
• MRC meeting yesterday
• Meeting Wednesday!

Ramsey

• Will try to get to some campaign testing on either Alpha or Beta (whichever is working)
• system story stuff continues
• will test additional things if they do end up working on Beta

Cormac

• working on basic integration tests to make sure we know if other stuff breaks our stuff
• PL: is getting alpha working something we should prioritise?

2018-12-04

Mark

• Doing some more reading on Gerrit/Phab today to catch up
• Little under the weather so probably will try to get some rest as well

Matthias

will miss standup

• Catching up on things

James

• MCR team's merge of the SlotRoleHandler stuff broke everything in WBMI. Working with them to fix.
• Am in an Infrastructure retro meeting, sorry!

Pam

• much the same as yesterday: revising search results thanks to chat w/ Ramsey & prepping to show to design team tomorrow
• emails!
• MCR design considerations

Ramsey

• reallly hoping to be able to finish testing on Beta one day :D
• in the meantime, doing more "system story" stuff to document our system rules so far
• emails about non-SDC stuff

Cormac

• did some rebasing, got bogged down updating vagrant so not a v productive day
• updating labs - how to go about it?
• we REALLY need to do some integration tests to stop other teams breaking our shit

2018-12-03

Cormac

• that bug with the errors from abuse filter is in review, but I have a qunit test failing that I don't understand
• next is rebasing that search prototype patch so I can make it work on labs again

Matthias

• Hi!

Ramsey

• OMG baby time!!
• crazy day of meetings and emails today. putting out some small fires.
• hopefully (crossing fingers) going to QA Beta if it's ready.

Keegan

• Meetings
• Beta announcement?
• Captions blog, should start

Pam

• Search wireframing
• Answered some email...
• Need to start on Image Annotations soon

James

• Bug squashing.
• Wouldn't it be nice to only have one Structured Data header on file pages? ;-)

Mark

• Hiring obviously progressing
• MCR meeting - sounds like they aren't blocked or arguing, just working on SlotRoleHandler
• After meetings, will hop back on phab/gerrit and sort things out