Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/20111115

Features team meeting

Time	11:00 - 11:30 PDT / 20:00 - 20:30 CET
Place	#wikimedia-dev connect

20111122 »

Parser / Visual Editor

Trevor, Inez, Neil, Brion, Gabriel, Roan

Trevor

Last week:

• Fixed major issues blocking the synchronization of structural edits to the user interface
• Refactored several areas of the code to reduce bloat and repetition
• Mapped out features to be supportted (still a work in progress)
  • Visual editor/Features

This week:

• Finish mapping out features to be supported
  • Prioritize list
  • Add status to each item in list
• Finish (finally) the last parts of the transaction system
• Create an undo/redo system (may delegate this)
• Get side-by-side preview working in Demo again

Blockers:

• Need moar power! (people power that is)

Roan

Last week:

• Added tests for splitting paragraphs
• Rewrote removal commit code to make those tests pass
• Random fixes

This week:

• Wrote leaf node traversal code Trevor requested
• Fixed test breakages specific to IE
• Whatever Trevor tells me to work on next

Blockers:

• None, really, but need Trevor to assign work, and not spend more than ~2d/wk

Inez

Last week:

• Finished support for moving cursor and creating content selection with keyboard and/or mouse (various different combinations, for instance with holding shift, control/command key down)
• Basic supoport for content insertion
• Turned listItems into branches (from leafs) which affected how WikiDom looks like (it let's us have table in listitem - which apparently is allowed in wikitext)

This week:

• Working on better support for content insertion
• Adding content removal (which includes for instance nodes merging)
• Working on transactions stack - to support undo/redo functionality
• Basic research to figure out how to implement support for content copy&paste
• Add more description of interactions to Visual editor/Features
• Blockers:

Sometimes view & model tree sync is a blocker, but Trevor manages to solve most of the problems right away

Brion

Last week:

• a little feedback for gabriel

This week:

Blockers:

Gabriel

Last week:

• Added inline productions and improved WikiDom compatibility, but blocked on missing support for overlapped ranges in PEG parser. Evaluated alternatives for robust larger-scale parsing, and proposed using the HTML5 parser spec in Wikitext-l. General parser bug triage with Sumana.

This week:

• More bug triage on Monday, but working on evaluating/integrating JS HTML5 parsers now. A few candidates, node.js compat important for now. General interface tokenizer (PEG) -> HTML parser. WikiDom generation either from generated DOM or direct (likely later).

Blockers:

• Decision on HTML-derived parser cleared design block up

AFT

Dario

Last week:

• Worked on AFTv5 data model, metrics requirements and data analysis plan
• Worked on guidelines for marking of AFT-generated edits and account tracking

This week:

• Prepare protocol for community assessment of feedback
• Finalize bucketing algorithm specs
• Article sampling strategy for quant/qual analysis
• Review with Community dept random task allocation project

Blockers:

• None

Roan

Last week:

• Reviewed DB schema for AFTv5 with the OmniIT contractors

This week:

• Whatever OmniIT needs from me :)

Blockers:

WikiLove

Development on hold

• Deployments at will.

MoodBar

RobM

Last week

• Review MoodBar extension Phase 1 / 2 requirements

This week

• Require user to leave comment , front end, via validation method

Blockers:

Benny

Last week

• Review Moodbar phase 1 / 2 requirements and the extension code

This week

• Added server side validation for empty comment
• Deployments to extra wikis are now open, provided that community consensus is shown and the tool has been localized.

Blockers:

Feedback Dashboard

Dario

Last week

• Updated research plan with questions on response to MoodBar messages m:Research:MoodBar

This week

• Review Aaron's proposal for tracking response time

RobMo

This week

• Allow for inline reason on restore / hide feedback with confirm and cancel button
• Redlinked users without user pages
• Layout / Font adjustments

Benny

This week

• Show the user/timestamp/reason for hiding a feedback
• will design the two new APIs: replying to a feedback and pull a list of response to a feedback
• Deployments to extra wikis are now open provided that community consensus is shown and the tool has been localized.

New Article Creation/New Page Patrol

Howie

Last week:

This week:

Blockers:

Dario

Last week:

• Reviewed data and preliminary survey results with Oliver/Howie

This week:

• Move data to collaborative spreadsheet and support Oliver with data analysis
• Document project on Meta

Ian

Last week:

• Reviewed survey results, started cataloguing common NPP issues.

UploadWizard

Neil

Last week:

• finished custom license feature;
• deployed new UploadWizard late Thursday
• Then had to turn off multi-file in prod due to skew in the API, trunk is now very different from prod.
• Found we could not re-enable features easily due to other trunk-prod skews.

This week:

• cleanups from UW deploy. redeploying today (Tuesday). Will also fix some stuff for legal later.
• see if I can get etherpad-mediawiki actually working inside WikiEditor, so we can finally deploy that?
• Any other leftover time goes to parser/editor stuffs w/Trevor

Blockers:

• Could use Trevor's help on WikiEditor stuff (hard to understand WikiEditor config system)

Ian

Last week:

This week:

• Turns out chunked upload backend is not actually ready for use. Reworked things so we get FormData API without chunking so we can deploy muti-file select now, will coordinate with j on FIXMEs in chunking code.

Blockers:

I18n / L10n tools

Team going to India.

Concluded sprint #2 on Monday:

• Code review of WebFonts
• Fix shortcut key of Narayam
• Narayam remembers the 5 last used schemes
• Basic version of message group workflows for Translate

ResourceLoader 2.0

Roan

Last week:

• Wrote maintenance script for migration
• Fixed bugs reported against prototype set-up
• Did some TODO gnoming

This week:

• Resurrect ancient unit tests and try to make them pass. This will be hard

Blockers:

Timo

Last week:

• (WebFonts extension review)
• bug fixes

This week:

• New category (polish and commit)

Blockers:

Personal image filter

On hold

Other notes...

Dario

• Worked on specifications for user lookup routine for CentralNotice (Harvard/Sciences Po study)
• Worked on plan for storing and exposing pageview stats
• Random RCom work

Ideas for next meeting

Replace IRC "meeting" with a more public Q&A/weekly updates like "IRC office hours" (on #wikimedia-dev) Enforce writing bullet-points in the etherpad for sharing project status Save etherpad to wiki page after the meeting is over (keep the etherpad pseudo-restricted) Advertise the office hours on mailing lists