Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/December

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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