Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/20111206
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| Place | #wikimedia-dev connect |
Parser / Visual editor
[edit]- Trevor
Last week:
- Lots of bug fixing
- Context menus and major toolbar enhancements
- Some refactoring where needed
This week:
- Finish critical features for release next week
- Fix as many bugs as we can find
Blockers:
- Need moar human-power!
- Roan
Last week:
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Blockers:
- Inez
Last week:
- Toolbar (text styles)
This week:
- Toolbar (tools: bullet, number, indent, outdent)
- Killing IE8 and IE9 bugs
- Finish critical features for next week release, testing
- Copy & paste functionality
Blockers:
- Currently can't commit insertion of /list, list which is important to get bullet and number buttons work - Trevor is working on fixing it
- Brion
Last week:
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Blockers:
- Gabriel
Last week:
- Worked (with help from Hashar) on the parser test runner and the grammar. Went from 48 passing parser tests to 164 now.
- Wrote up https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/Parser_development, interacted with HTML parser upstream for bug fixes and tokenizer <> tree builder interface
This week:
- Continue to work on tests and grammar (see the todo)
- Try to actually look at generating WikiDom from HTML DOM
Blockers:
- None, but could use help to speed up the progress
- Neil
Last week:
- Started undo/redo feature; refactored notions of transactions/states into a history log. Undid some of that refactor to make early Dec deadline; refactored AGAIN to a compromise concept (w/Trevor)
This week:
- Finish undo/redo feature
Blockers:
- None at the moment
- Dario
Last week:
- worked on the qualitative coding tool with Oliver/Aaron
This week:
- finalize requirements for article sampling
- update research plan and schedule to include qual analysis
- work on use cases for edit tagging
Blockers:
- None
- Roan
Last week:
- Answered a few e-mails, haven't been needed beyond that
This week:
- Have to CR the AFTv5 code by Dec 5
Blockers:
- Low availability, see bottom
- RobM
Last week:
- None
This week:
- Added Feedback handling for blocked user
- Gathering user info to determine email status
- Added templates to update user email address & request email confirmation
- Added Icons to Success & Error bubble
- Todo: Create MoodBar notification template
- TBD: customize html email
Blockers:
- None
- Benny
Last week:
This week:
- Creating the API for user to set profile email if email is not set and send out verification if email is not verified
Blockers:
- None
- Neil
Last week:
- I'm not on this team
This week:
- No really, I'm not
Blockers:
- It was just that one time
- RobM
Last week:
- Phase2 additions: Allow wikitext and show preview prior to sending response
- Add ajax response status icons & new internationalization text
- Deployed phase2 changes Wednesday
This week:
- Added feedback response handling for blocked user
- TBD
Blockers:
- None
- Benny
Last week:
- Deployed the follow-up change for feedback dashobard response API
- Allow wikitext in feedback response and update the talk page section title for auto-generated talk page text
- Display the latest user reply for feedback in dashboard page and add link to talk page from feedback page
- Research on html emails/custom emails for feedback response
This week:
- Add moodbar stats on dashboard page.
- Add edit summary to feedback response
- TBD: html email or custom email for user response
Blockers:
- None
- Dario
Last week:
- Started coding feedback response data dashboard on Toolserver
This week:
- release it
New Article Creation/New Page Patrol
[edit]- Howie
Last week:
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Blockers:
- Dario
Last week:
This week:
Blockers:
- Ian
Last week:
- Re-started work on PageTriage extension
This week:
Blockers:
- Neil
Last week:
- Reviewed various bugfixes by Jeroen
- Worked on Categories bugs (git stashed locally, not committed)
- Worked on preview button for licenses (git stashed locally, not committed)
This week:
- Cleanups from that
Blockers:
- Ian
Last week:
This week:
Blockers:
- Jeroen
Last week:
This week:
Blockers:
- Ian & Neil
Last week:
- Finished review of TMH (PHP and JS) except for transcoding
This week:
- Review transcoding parts of TMH, review any new commits related to previous reviews.
- Preliminary planning for testing in production?
Blockers:
Brandon's Little Corner of Happy Fun Fun
[edit]- Fundraiser fallout (interviews, etc.)
- Many discussions about Moodbar/Feedback dashboard, plus enhancements on that.
- Discussing revamping the notification system
- Working on Narayam design stuff but haven't gotten very much work done over what happened in India
- Exploring post-edit appreciation dialogs
- Consulting on ArticleFeedback 5
- Minor consulting on San Francisco hackathon
- Brandon
- Working on getting a page up to discuss the work done in India about this but haven't had more than a half day of time to work on it and it needs some work.
- Making Narayam (keyboard maps) work in old skins.
- Refactoring Narayam to allow better code reuse: keymaps can inherit rules from other keymaps.
- Keyboard maps for all official languages of India created.
- WebFonts updated and stabilized. Some attempts to work on better font hinting. Fonts now have version number.
- Some team members were ill.
ResourceLoader 2.0
[edit]- Roan
Last week:
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Blockers:
- Timo
Last week:
- Fix layout bugs in Gadget manager
- Code review
- Testing gadgets and migration on prototype
This week:
Blockers:
- On hold
- Jeroen
Last week:
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Other notes...
[edit]- Dario
Last week:
- continuous support of Harvard study with Timo, Legal team + external research team
- finalized legal agreement and banner design
- worked on managing major schedule conflict with editor survey campaign
- Various RCom tasks
- launched public data/research infrastructure consultation: bit.ly/WikimediaData
- first major review of EPIC/Oxford study since its launch
- initiated collaboration between fundraiser team and photocracy/allourideas team
- reviewed with Legal and Global Dev various requests for access to private data
This week:
- launch banner campaign for Harvard study
Blockers:
- legal review of agreement on Harvard's end
- technical issues with Harvard's banner
- Roan
Last week:
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