Multimedia/Standup notes/2017/November
2017-11-01[edit]
Matthias[edit]
Holiday today - no update
Chris[edit]
- Recovering from back-to-back offsites
- Feedback from legal language about weapons and patented objects has been archived
- I'll draft an announcment to Commons about enabling 3D (one last, "Hey, this is coming!" post)
- I'm out Thrus and Friday, but will try and get something done today.
Pam[edit]
- Catching up on talks from WikidataCon 2017
Ramsey[edit]
- Following up on 3D upload tasks with Matthias - current issue affects scenario with uploading multiple files
- Will sync up with Pam for a possible UI design tweak for the above issue
- Will ping legal for a URL that points to the official 3D file license language on Foundation Wiki
- Follow-up with #NEWPALMYRA for the 3D file they want to use to honor Bassel.
2017-11-02[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- 3D UploadWizard legal thingies
- Take a look at Cormac's SVG patch
Anthony[edit]
- Looking at QA column to find things to do
Pam[edit]
- Finish watching Wikidatacon lightning talks
- Doing design team related stuff (give comments on handbook)
- Waiting for Ramsey email about 3D flow
Ramsey[edit]
- Chat with Kaldari re: MP3 (they may be able to take that over)
- Responded to Matthias UW/3D/legal questions
- Look at phabricator
- Meetings, emails, ...
2017-11-06[edit]
Chris[edit]
- Drafting update to Commons on 3D coming soon
- Draft wIll be here as I work on it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/3D_announcement
Matthias[edit]
- 3D/legal/UW patch
- Reviewing SVG patch
- Next: 3D patches (lightning, shadows & camera rotation issue)
Ramsey[edit]
- SDoC: looking into request to make categories structured
- 3D 3rd party working on Commons-compatible models - they have a few questions
- Will miss next 2 standups
Anthony[edit]
- Needs things to look at
Pam[edit]
- Commons - upload stuff, search stuff
2017-11-07[edit]
Matthias[edit]
(will not be here during standup)
- Code review & QA
- Will work on 3D next (add top bar to patent dialog & work on shadow & camera angle for object rendering)
Ramsey[edit]
(meeting conflict, won't be attending this standup)
- Preparing slides for presentation at Google LA next week
- Looking into the current state of documentation for the Commons API
- Still trying to resolve debate surrounding structured categories
2017-11-08[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- Reviewed PD-Art patch...
- ... which uncovered another small issue with a warning being displayed when selecting current day - fixed that
- Mark: can you review that: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/389970/
- Added top bar with filename for patent dialog - patch is ready for review (just missing a link to legal text)
Cormac[edit]
A/V issues
Max[edit]
- Catching up on things
- Looks at board & backlog
Pam[edit]
- Research Monumental (upload tool)
2017-11-09[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- Messing around with 3D cameras - more of that tomorrow
- Will look some more at SVG patch
Max[edit]
- Setting up for retro
Ramsey[edit]
- Meeting with Katherine and Product team
- Tasks: SDoC Team is kind of battling with the idea of Structured Categories, concerned this will grow out of control
- Google LA prezzo
- Getting ready for 3D launch, Legal chats, Comms, CE, etc
- Met with Anthony on QA
Pam[edit]
- Yesterday researching Monumental, speci map UIs
Mark[edit]
- Lo, I am returnèd
- Today: Email backlogs, etc.
- Hopefully get another shot at the MediaInfo patch, Daniel Kinzler gave me good insights into things
Cormac[edit]
- Looking at PDF issue (setting up Swift to dig deeper)
2017-11-13[edit]
- Planning meeting today!
Mark[edit]
- All caught up, feeling good
- Going to finish up MediaInfo patch (finally)
Matthias[edit]
- 3D patches (patent in UW, camera rotation, default object position & shadows) awaiting review
- Will apply these same changes to 3d2png soon, but first
- CR SVG patch
Max[edit]
- Planning meeting today - sorry missed a few
Ramsey[edit]
- Google LA - fundraising presentation, image search, MP3 stuff
Pam[edit]
- Design review of UW starting today
- Heuristics
- Starting evaluation
Amanda[edit]
- Mostly non-MM work right now
- Structured data blog post
- HR-y work
- Financial things
- Community wishlist comments re: SDoC
Cormac[edit]
- Swift backend running locally - may be able to reproduce bug now - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178849
2017-11-14[edit]
Mark[edit]
- MediaInfo work nearly done yesterday - have some blockers on WMDE, will ping them about it
Matthias[edit]
- Reviewing SVG patch
- Vagrant issues
Pam[edit]
- <missed this>
Ramsey[edit]
- Fundraiser presentation
- SDoC - prepping for IRC office hours
- Reviewing next quarter plans
- Following up with 3D partners
Cormac[edit]
- PDF - managed to reproduce bug with Swift
2017-11-15[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- Merged SVG patch
- Applied 3D changes to 3d2png as well
- Got lots of (mostly 3D-related) patches that need review
Amanda[edit]
- Conversation with GLAM for SDoC
- Need help from Ramsey & Pam for user stories
- Reviewing documents for Sandra (IRC office hours etc)
- Dealing with restricted grant stuff
- Needs MCR work to keep moving/get done
Cormac[edit]
- Figured out PDF bug
- QA
- Trying to upload some files
Mark[edit]
- Chatted with WMDE about FOURTH APPROACH to MediaInfo work. sigh
- Will do some CR today and wait for WMDE resolution.
Pam[edit]
- Design review of UW
- Dig into inspiration for multilingual fields
Ramsey[edit]
- Review things for MP3
- Communication with 3rd parties to build tool for MP3
- Did presentation
- Discussions about SDoC & Google Image Search
- Going through backlog
- Will create ticket for Pam to do research into UW & integrating multilingual captions
2017-11-16[edit]
Mark[edit]
- Did some CR yesterday in between meetingpocalypse
- Today: ??? maybe more CR, maybe some errands in between things
- Tomorrow: Finishing up some book-learnin' for management stuff
Matthias[edit]
- Lot of patches got merged, yay
- Fixed shadows in 3d2png
- Added plural support in patent dialog patch
Ramsey[edit]
- Done with fundraiser stuff
- Work on Phab tickets
- Product strategy stuff
Max[edit]
- Nothing MM
Pam[edit]
- UW design review
Chris[edit]
- Getting the 3D announcment translated for the non-English Commons Village Pumps
- Feedback thus far has been positive, if not minimal.
- Folks want more 3D formats!
- Does Multimedia have a plan for addressing Community Tech Wishlist proposals? A: Yes :)
Cormac[edit]
- Got & responded to feedback on PDF issue
- QA'd tickets
- Volunteer day tomorrow
2017-11-20[edit]
Mark[edit]
- n.b. - vacation Wednesday, flying to Las Vegas (plus Thursday and Friday as usual)
- No updates on MediaInfo
- Will do CR then find a task to claim...
Matthias[edit]
- Nothing
Max[edit]
- Nothing MM
- Dive into Phlogiston, come up with some reports
- Backlog grooming today
Cormac[edit]
- Submitted patches for PDF
Ramsey[edit]
- Meetings
- IRC office hours tomorrow at 9:00
- Non-technical 3D stuff, working with some projects
- Contact 3rd party about MP3 review tool
- Monitoring community wishlist items
2017-11-21[edit]
Mark[edit]
- Finishing up a CR run-through
- Getting ready to leave the state tomorrow - will be AFK starting tonight and totally incommunicado tomorrow around noon SF time
- Should be available Thursday/Friday for urgent things, just in case
Matthias[edit]
- Checking out Wikibase
Amanda[edit]
- SDoC IRC office hours
- Talking to Cindy about MCR code review
- Talking to Ramsey about making decisions for roadmap
- Send grant report update email
Anthony[edit]
- Going through Phab tickets
- [?] Do we need/want a "PM signoff" column in Phab?
- [!] Once it hits "QA", it has already been PM-approved
- [?] Do we need/want a "PM signoff" column in Phab?
- Worked out multimedia QA strategy
Ramsey[edit]
- Meetings, lot of them
- SDoC IRC office hours
- Create project page for scan the world
- Check Phab tickets
Cormac[edit]
- Investigating missing pages for some files
2017-11-22[edit]
Cormac[edit]
- Took a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174757 - pretty sure it's a config issue, but I don't seem to have permissions to see how the bug reporter has configured his campaigns. Any ideas from the rest of the team?
- Think I have taken the missing pages for files issue as far as I can - wrote it up in the comments and un-assigned it from myself
- looked into wikibase a little, will search for a do-able bug in wikidata :)
Matthias[edit]
- Checking out Wikibase
Ramsey[edit]
- Working on Reading roadmap
- Digging into Phab tickets
2017-11-23[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- Checking out Wikibase
2017-11-27[edit]
Mark[edit]
- Returning from vacation means lots of backlog checking!
- Bit of CR, bit of email, bit of Phabricator
- Few meetings today as well - check-in stuff mostly
- Assuming all of that gets done, I can jump back in to MediaInfo/Wikibase familiarity/wandering
Chris[edit]
- Posted an update on the MP3 user group being enabled today on Commons
Cormac[edit]
- bug fixing!
- mostly responding to code review comments
- more of the same tomorrow
Ramsey[edit]
- working on triaging/addressing Phab tickets, both old and new
- demoing 3D upload for the Monthly Product meeting
- meeting/discussing with Amanda and Sandra about Structured Data stuff
- will chat with relevant parties about potential blockers on MediaInfo
Matthias[edit]
- Code review
2017-11-28[edit]
Cormac[edit]
- more bugfixing
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178849 got merged
- investigating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176010 atm
- might tackle https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180691 next
Matthias[edit]
- Built 3d2png-deploy
- Took over FormatMetadata undefined index (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178130)
- More CR
- Need review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/390274/, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/393730/ & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/383959/
Mark[edit]
- Didn't make it through my backlog yesterday - continuing
- Then, on to prototyping/playing with Wikibase and MediaInfo stuff
Ramsey[edit]
- Meetings!
- Updating documentation, user stories!
- Phab work!
- QA!
Amanda[edit]
- Ping about admin rights on structured labs instance
- Meetings!
- MW platform: CR help
2017-11-29[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- CR
- Filed a new ticket & provided clarification on another around bad duplicate upload handling
- Back to Wikidata
Mark[edit]
- Backlog: Complete
- Today, lots of meetings and not much else...
- Hopefully some time to play with a prototype in MediaInfo-land
Cormac[edit]
- Trying to get shell access
- CR
Ramsey[edit]
- Meetings
- Polish up SDoC & MM workboards
2017-11-30[edit]
Matthias[edit]
- Submitted patch to increase UW upload limit for certain groups
- Playing around with Wikidata/MediaInfo
Mark[edit]
- Meetings sapped most of yesterday
- Today: Actually working on MediaInfo stuff to some extent
- Tomorrow: Finishing some management reading
Cormac[edit]
- Local duplicate thing that Matthias raised
Ramsey[edit]
- Linked up with Grace & Amanda about RACI/DACI to create chart about roles
- Continued Phabricator cleanup
- Done 3D testing, will give some feedback
- Catch up with Pam
- MP3 update: Kaldari's handling it - should be coming soon
Max[edit]
- No updates
Amanda[edit]
- Talking with advancement & fincance about grant reports & financial projections
- Helping Ann with cross-departmental program review & improvement for next annual planning cycle
Pam[edit]
- Catch up on email
- Arrange to see 3D demo