Reading/Multimedia/Scrum notes/gi11es

Last update on: 2014-05-08

2014-05-08
 
 * Yesterday
 * Weekly team meeting
 * Reviewed everything in the queue, including out-of-focus changes. Notably there was a series of massive changesets for the upload pipeline written by Aaron Schulz that will take a while to get to the point of being ready to merge. At this point I mostly asked for unit tests, as none of the new code introduced has any.
 * Today

2014-05-07
 
 * Yesterday
 * Addressed further concerns on DurationLogger improvements (#571)
 * Reviewed everything in the queue
 * Implemented fix for Safari defullscreen bug (#569)
 * Investigated the effect of pilot launches on image scalers (#523)
 * Implement unified image graph (#529)
 * Today
 * Weekly team meeting

2014-05-06
 
 * Yesterday
 * Addressed concerns on threshold of what is considered a browser cache hit for mmv.performance (#563)
 * Addressed concerns on DurationLogger improvements (#571)
 * Someone broke mediawiki.ui in core, which we rely on. I wrote a fix. (#572)
 * Reviewed everything in the queue
 * Today
 * 1-on-1 with Rob
 * Fix Safari bug (#569)
 * Investigate the effect of pilot launches on image scalers (#523)
 * Implement unified image graph (#529)

2014-05-05
 
 * Yesterday
 * Implemented fix for issue that might have been preventing OS X users from having API calls cached by their browser (#566)
 * Implemented fix for issue where the "versus" graph wouldn't pick up recent data (#564)
 * Implemented fix for daily cutoff of stats not happening exactly at midnight that would make the graphs look weird (#565)
 * Increased the threshold of what is considered a browser cache hit for mmv.performance (#563)
 * Improved some sinon.js code style according to Gergo's advice
 * Studied the results of the mipmapping survey, it looks like the most "extreme" solution is a no-go because the visual quality loss is too noticeable
 * Reviewed everything in the queue
 * Tried following Dan's repro steps on a GWToolset bug, got pretty far but ran into an error I couldn't troubleshoot. Responded to the bug report.
 * Today
 * Fix Safari bug (#569)
 * Investigate the effect of pilot launches on image scalers (#523)
 * Implement unified image graph (#529)

2014-05-02
 
 * Yesterday
 * Ran more thumbnail chaining tests, results shared on the mailing list
 * Reviewed everything in the queue, including some old UploadWizard changesets rebased by Mark
 * Looked for any spikes in the API requests (#523) nothing looked worrying, asked Ops for confirmation.
 * Wrote the weekly team update
 * Implemented survey https://surveymonkey.com/s/FY89BTX to further discussion on image scaling optimizations
 * Today
 * Investigate the effect of pilot launches on image scalers (#523)
 * Implement new global image graph (#529)

2014-05-01

 * Yesterday
 * Weekly team meeting
 * Reviewed everything in the queue
 * Spent a bunch of time researching the bucketing issue/thumbnail intermediates and writing detailed responses on the mailing list
 * Set up limn production deployment thanks to Dan
 * Implemented the change to add the 95th percentile (#555)


 * Today
 * Review Dan's GWToolset changesets
 * Write the weekly status report



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