Reading/Multimedia/Standup notes/2017/January

2017-01-03

 * Welcome back! Happy new year!

Prateek

 * Code review, ooui stuff
 * Talking with Daisy about the FA user test
 * Thinking of doing ooui and random multimedia stuff this week, ping me on irc if you need me to be working on something specific.

Mark

 * Feeling pretty accomplished about waking up at a normal time after that long week off.
 * Also feeling dapper.
 * Oh, right, work. I guess I'll start investigating the state of 3D files in line with our quarterly goal.

Matthias

 * Doing same API error output refactoring (using error HTML) in BookletLayout

Bartosz

 * Email backlog!!!
 * Reviews!!!
 * VE stuff!!!

James

 * Checking patches merged over the holiday for problems.
 * Slowly working through backlog...
 * ADP is no longer a thing

Prateek

 * More OOjs things
 * Discussing changes in the prototype with Pau & Daisy - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153296

Mark

 * Got an e-mail from Gilles about the 3D work.
 * MW integration is done, pending deployment of the service
 * Reviewed a patch that should fix security issues. Seeking volunteers to either review it further, or fix what I found.

James

 * Much rain. Wow.
 * Preparing for all-hands and tech days.

LA

 * Yay, a cats standup!!!

2016-01-05

 * Tech days! Do you have any ideas you want help with???

Prateek

 * No update

Mark

 * Could use some assistance reviewing and/or updating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D314

Matthias

 * Vagrant issues
 * Working on removing api-error-* messages
 * Fixed something small with Upload.BookletLayout, which assumed it always gets a ForeignStructuredUpload object

2017-01-09

 * This entire week was sparse, because almost everyone on the team was present at the dev summit and all-hands meeting in San Francisco.

Prateek

 * Mark, James: Need feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154893
 * Working and discussing the subtasks on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153296
 * Kind of missing the DevSummit

Prateek
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Concepts/Story_builder
 * Seeing how Brickedmedia's Refreshed skin uses Wikifont
 * Styleguide/design things
 * Mark, James: The story builder (T150461) is similar to the burns project. Did you attend that session? How was it?

Prateek

 * OOUI accessibilty stuff - T100219

Prateek

 * Spent way too much time on T150455
 * Finally saw https://bids.berkeley.edu/resources/videos/stealing-some-wikimedias-principles-democratize-programming
 * Reading http://openannotation.org/ things

Prateek

 * Auto generating icon font - https://prtksxna.github.io/ooui-icons-webfont/

2017-01-16

 * U.S. staff were not working, for MLK Day.

Prateek

 * Hope everyone is back home safe :)
 * Random OOUI and MW stuff
 * Slideshow gallery issues
 * Cracked my phone screen :'(

Prateek

 * I turned 25 \o/ (I can finally drink legally in Delhi)
 * I am sure I did things

Matthias

 * Catching up on where we are
 * API errors in BookletLayout - ready, but no chance to test it (will do today)
 * Will read up on the grant
 * Review 3d files thing

Mark

 * Catch up
 * Read up on grant
 * Will test out the 3D file extension/service setup and test UX stuff

Prateek

 * Read grant
 * Did random things

Matthias

 * Tested BookletLayout api-error- patch
 * Read up on structured data for commons project
 * Reviewing 3d2png patch

Mark

 * 3D file extension running locally on Vagrant...looking pretty decent at the moment
 * May look into interactivity with the current system - may or may not be viable
 * Read some Grant things, will continue tomorrow.

James

 * MCR is a thing.
 * Interactive??? It's Complicated™

2017-01-19

 * Team chat tonight at 16:00 Pacific...

Mark

 * Tomorrow vacation - weeklong vacation within the next month or so, probably.
 * Need to read the grant things that James hasn't sent us yet

Bartosz

 * I'm back!!!!
 * Lots of MM code review
 * Could use some CR for old UploadWizard patches
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard+owner:matma.rex+is:open

Matthias

 * Reviewed 3d2png
 * Reviewing Bartosz patches a bit

Prateek

 * OOui stuff
 * Haven't heard from dchen again, will ping her this week

Mark

 * Going to buckle down and read this grant thing. James, do we have the private/semi-private things available yet?
 * Also going to diagnose my poor, sick Vagrant instance that can't load JS. Hoping there's some features of the 3D extension that I'm missing. Then, work on it.

Matthias

 * Helping Benoit with Flow URLs
 * Looking into Wikibase & Wikidata

Matthias

 * Fixed Flickr long upload filenames
 * Fixed File: page redirects: mw-content-(ltr|rtl) classes now added & Categories: are displayed
 * Working on UW error handling in setTransported refactors

Mark

 * Fixed vagrant yesterday, confirmed some cool features in 3d extension.
 * Merged security fix, waiting for confirmation that it solves all concerns.
 * Next: Bothering Gilles about deployment strategies, bothering James about product concerns

Mark

 * 3D extension's thumbnailer passed security review today, scheduling extension review now - check first
 * Could use some product thoughts on the current state of the extension, I think it's pretty good right now and we could launch to see what people think (on beta, or whatever)

Matthias

 * Taking error/warning handling out of UploadWizardUpload.setTransported
 * mostly done, wrapping up tomorrow