Multimedia/Standup notes/2018/October

2018-10-31
Happy Halloween!

Mark

 * Won't make it to standup, attending the QCI
 * Still trying to sort out hiring stuff, hopefully will make progress

Keegan

 * Licensing v2 is the name of the day
 * IRC office hours reminder posting

James

 * his computer has crashed! (so I'll write his notes)
 * doing config/testing in beta cluster - has to work out why we're getting the wrong error msgs from wikibase

Cormac

 * trying to document/draw a line under what I've done on virtual statements so far so I can move on to ...
 * upload wizard metrics
 * and then depicts via UW

Amanda

 * trapped on the bart
 * last grant doc tweaks
 * Reading ramsey's ontological purity deck

Ramsey

 * helping Pam and Keegan with the licensing stuff
 * following discussions

Pam

 * not here, at QCI still
 * been chugging away at the UI copy audit
 * have been talking with Ramsey about licenses and linking qualifier values
 * sooo many meetings today, but all productive :)

Mark

 * Continuing to work through resumés, slowly
 * My afternoon is pretty well shot but hopefully have some time to get through some of the needful this morning

Pam

 * Still working on that UI copy audit
 * Also rolling up feedback on the search prototype (which phab ticket to put feedback on?)
 * Might miss tomorrow's standup because I'll be attending the QCI meeting

Cormac

 * virtual statements prototype ... the end is in sight (I think)

James

 * GORDON, IT'S ALIVE!
 * WBMI now enabled on Beta Cluster Commons
 * what's the url?
 * https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Random/File
 * Will be testing throughout the day. Still helping the Wikibase team (thanks Adam!) with a bunch of fixes.
 * Will make the copy changes from Pam.

Ramsey

 * Last night, thought about how to do some things for referring to rationale for public domain in structured licenses
 * today, finishing writing all that out and passing on to Pam
 * W00t -pam

Pam

 * Launched the caption study friday - ran into system errors (unable to save captions), so cannot fully launch :(
 * Finishing up an email with feedback/suggestions from the one usability test
 * Continuing to work on the UI copy audit
 * Meeting with Ramsey later to catch up on what to prioritize this week

Mark

 * Going to try to bomb through all of the resumés today, wish me luck.
 * Still a little behind on e-mail, that's probably a fair bit of tomorrow

Ramsey

 * catch-up and leftover emails from post-TechConf
 * going to tryyyy to see if we can get things on beta...finally

James

 * More deployment fun. Beta Cluster ahoy.

Keegan

 * Working on comms stuff; need to write out a blog post from notes
 * Bunch of meetings, e-mails etc. to do today

James

 * Deployment moves slowly forward; WBMI now installed but disabled on Beta Cluster https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180981
 * Have a ticket for Wikibase configuration fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207683
 * Will **probably** deploy enablement to Beta Cluster in an hour or so

Matthias

 * Depicts in UW

Keegan

 * Much the same as yesterday, quietly working on wiki stuff
 * Re-doing WikiconNA expense report because there is yet another new expense report template out

Mark

 * Meetings light this week, so spending lots of time on resumés and stuff
 * Continuing to recover from backlogs also

Pam

 * Working on the UI Copy audit
 * Launching usability study soon (need to touch base with Daisy beforehand)
 * Forgot: also have to finish giving feedback to the grant report draft

Amanda

 * Assigned some grant report stuff to Sandra and Ramsey
 * Deadline tonight, should be back to SDC stuff tomorrow

Ramsey

 * TechConf!
 * Interviewing Eric today
 * More talking about ontology and data stuff

Cormac

 * dervied statements prototype

Mark

 * My meeting day dissolved. We should have TechConf more often!
 * So, back to backlogs. Probably reading a lot of resumés today.
 * Will have more on hiring stuff tomorrow.

Cormac

 * trying out a quick(ish) test implementation of virtual statements

Keegan

 * Captions communications and blog planning

Matthias

 * Depicts in UW

James

 * Deployment progress derailed (see what I did there?) by the MW train taking 6 hours yesterday.
 * Working on this with Addshore.

Amanda

 * Reviewing grant financial report
 * Landed myself a mountain of work on another project, so a bit overwhelmed. Ping me if you need me!

Pam

 * Meeting day
 * Coworking with Alex Hollender!
 * Still working on launching the usability study
 * Still need to read through the grant report

Matthias

 * Depicts in UW

James

 * Some progress with Beta Cluster deployment.
 * Working with addshore on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207683 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/469209 to move forward.
 * Fingers crossed.

Mark

 * Scrambling a bit on some hiring details
 * Continuing to catch up from a week away - pretty close actually

Pam

 * Got caught up on emails and slide decks
 * Setting up user testing today
 * Reading over the grant report draft & making edits

Cormac

 * crap! forgot all about standup!
 * trying to figure out how feasible it is to implement virtual statements

Cormac

 * have been working on rudimentary decks for
 * SDoC-with-localised-data https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SS_TssDVeJ4VlgkapbhcI0sUsn4YDAYetFH6j1-ft5A/edit#slide=id.g44176695f7_0_65
 * SDoC-with-distributed-data https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CbLB84eeAKKvVuMn-Fg5bJavXiYKe7KdbSNAbMmA43o/edit#slide=id.g453d04b880_0_125
 * (2nd draft of the latter cos the first draft was torpedoed by that email thread Amanda sent around)

Matthias
Note: plan to be gone October 31 & after
 * Depicts in UW
 * Amanda's email discussion has implications for this I think
 * Good to know, will check

Mark

 * Coming back in, catching up on backlogs
 * (brief) hiring update!

James

 * Getting back in the saddle
 * Plan to encourage WMDE to help get Beta Cluster Wikidata setup deployed

Ramsey

 * at TechConf so mostly lurking

Matthias
Will miss standup & design:devs chat (in hospital - checkup)
 * Depicts in UW

Pam

 * Have uploaded individual files on Labs for the File Caption usability test
 * Still need to create and paste in the individual test scripts for ten participants (because i'm using individual file urls to test the captions)
 * Had a good meeting with WMDE folks today about more design collaboration (overall, not just limited to SCD)
 * Off Fri/Mon, back Tuesday bright and early

Ramsey

 * meeting #3 today already :)
 * continuing to work on "explainer" deck for depicts/ontology woes
 * will perhaps get a chance to update the machine aided depicts deck

Cormac

 * trying to figure out how I might implement virtual statements

Amanda

 * grant repoooooooort

Matthias

 * Depicts in UW

Pam

 * Met with Daisy yesterday re: MLC usability study
 * Need to set study up on Usertesting.com
 * Prep for design:dev meeting tomorrow

Ramsey

 * meetings
 * 3-5 year planning/tech conf stuff continues
 * will try to knock out most of that Ontology slide deck so we can move the email thread over there and (hopefully) get some clarity/conclusions
 * also may not make it through the entire day depending on how the teeth holes feel

Cormac

 * updating documentation, mostly - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseMediaInfo and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207289

Cormac

 * have a working patch for is empty https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207016 ... have had one review from David, waiting for another
 * still thinking about searching and data modelling etc - trying to see if I can display search data on File page
 * question from David about licensing

Pam

 * Finishing up the MLC usabillity study prototcol
 * Meet with Daisy to set up study
 * Meeting with Max
 * Meetings, meetings

Ramsey

 * attempting, as always, to reconcile differences of opinion about data model/architecture
 * will be visiting the dental surgeon today to address the wisdom teeth (which may or may not come out today)
 * TechConf/3-5 year planning stuff
 * PL : ontology!

Matthias

 * Depicts in UW

Amanda
Both hopefully done tomorrow (especially the QCi,
 * Moar grant report
 * Moar QCi

Pam

 * Completed an engineer interview (Jenny), have to fill out scorecard now
 * Continuing work on the File Caption user study protocol (in advance of meeting Daisy tomorrow re: usertesting dot com)

Matthias

 * Tech task review
 * Depicts in UW

Ramsey

 * a morning filled with meetings (including a Jenny interview)
 * dentist stuff over the next couple of days (getting bones ripped out of my head)
 * planning tech conf stuff/3-5 year planning

James

 * [I'm now light blue?]
 * Talked briefly with Amir about how to configure Wikidata as a federated source (at first on Beta Cluster)
 * Will try to bully^Wencourage Wikidata friends to merge Matthias's patch making non-SDC<->SDC diffs work.
 * Production Commons is now running READ-NEW MCR data, yay. \o/
 * I'll be off in Portland for the rest of the week doing Infrastructure team things.

Cormac

 * interviewed someone (Jenny), filled out scorecard (on Fri)
 * today spent working on isEmpty ...

Amanda

 * QCi
 * Grant report draft review and deliverables

Keegan

 * Writing things
 * Good coverage post by Ramsey into a wiki page
 * Finish up a few slides for this weekend
 * Caption release communications plan

Mark

 * More meetings today (but fewer)
 * I *will* get through the hiring backlog today

Keegan

 * Meetings
 * Keeping an eye on the search consultation
 * Working on a couple presentations
 * Good coverage page draft

Pam

 * Finally replied to the infamous Depicts email thread
 * Pulling together some more info for the grant report
 * Going to be working on the File Caption user study protocol for the rest of the day
 * Will peek at the current consultation

Matthias

 * Started working on depicts in UW

James

 * Reviewing Cormac's security patch. If we get Brian happy enough to sign-off, I'll do the beta cluster deployment.

Ramsey

 * meetings
 * 3-5 year planning
 * TechConf session stuff
 * still exploring machine-assisted depicts stuff (when time permits)

Cormac

 * thinking about search versus modelled data, and messing about with elastic search

James

 * Spent almost all of yesterday re-building my vagrant image so I can re-test. :-( Good news is that most things look good.
 * Will do review of Matthias's diff patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206629
 * Filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206646 about the experience for non-Commons wikis – product decision needed on if this should block deploy
 * Filed lower-priority question https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206645 about the API

Matthias
Not around for standup
 * Mostly only just fixed pre-/post MI diffs (or well, got that patch in good condition)

Mark

 * This week is pretty crazy.
 * Meeting day today!
 * Will attempt to get some hiring stuff done as well.

Pam

 * Sent Matthias some annotated statement designs for the depicts prototype
 * Have to edit the depicts flow today and send that to Matthias also (need to remove the WD client editor screens)
 * Still need to reply to Sandra/Alex re: that email thread that keeps going :)
 * Other than that meetings meetings meetings

Amanda

 * So much QCi presentation building
 * Very much grant report writing

Ramsey

 * Tech Conf! I'm leading the Data session and have some things to do
 * 3-5 year planning docs still consume [so very] much time
 * Answering questions about the search prototype

Cormac

 * spend a lot of the day panicking about stuff that was apparently broken, but it turns out it's ok (elasticsearch in vagrant was running out of memory and crashing)
 * have been doing some thinking/experimenting with retrieving data from elasticsearch for display on the frontend
 * working through the security issues

Cormac

 * It's merged!
 * hehe \o/
 * PL: discuss implications of breaking equivalence between search data in modelled data
 * been thinking about searching and data modelling - see

Ramsey

 * PL: discuss security review results and assign tasks
 * many meetings today
 * working on refining ML plans
 * helping people sort out data modelling (email threads are fun)
 * 3-5 year planning docs if I get a chance

James

 * Re-testing all of the MCR integration now things have landed and looking for snagging issues
 * Review of outstanding tickets esp. SR
 * [PL] Loose mocks of overall designs, e.g. reader-facing file page, would be helpful.

Mark

 * Looks like things are coming together!
 * Lots of resumés to get through today - hiring pipeline looks good - y'all should have face-to-face interviews coming soon

Pam

 * Have to reply to an email thread about depicts (will take time to write)
 * Gather timelines of designs for Jonathan Curiel
 * Documentation
 * Going to be finding time to move yesterday's missed 1:1 with Ramsey

Matthias

 * Merged Cormac's patch
 * Working on issue in wikibase when diffing pre & post mediainfo slot revisions
 * Is this the initial-MI diff? [Yes] Is there a task for it?
 * Diffing a file's first revision (no MI data) with a later (w/ MI data) revision fails - working on a patch, have not yet filed task (or is there one already?)
 * Neat. No known task to me.

Cormac

 * Tracked down another bug in MCR, Daniel working on it (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174035 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/465157 )
 * that fixed the caching/purging issue, Daniel says he hopes it'll be merged sometime this week
 * Adam's patch not merged yet
 * Waiting on review for my MCR patch
 * probably tomorrow can start thinking about non-MCR stuff again

Matthias

 * Tech task review

Mark

 * Hiring stuff going well - may get a chance to breathe today
 * Today and tomorrow is the time for me to finally slay the backlog I've been complaining about

Keegan

 * IRC office hour in one hour, so that
 * Search prototype discussion posting

Matthias

 * Fixing UW caption submission

Pam

 * Added two search scenarios to Keegan's doc, as well as some other minor additions
 * Still writing out/documenting the editing issues w/ depicts/other statements on Commons vs Wikidata - will finish today
 * WIll be lurking irc during office hours
 * Nothing to share/discuss for today's design:dev chat - what can we use that time for?

Amanda

 * So excited for office hours!
 * QCi first draft

Ramsey

 * morning full of meetings/IRC office hour (which is kind of a meeting)
 * 3-5 year planning stuff, of course

Cormac

 * MCR patch ready for proper review ... Adam's patch still not merged
 * I *think* the cache purging thing might be a red herring, haven't tracked it down for sure yet (suspect it might be something up with vagrant)

Keegan

 * Finish up the search prototype talk page post
 * Post said post.

Cormac

 * MCR stuff working, just trying to get it past CI
 * The Wikibase patch I need isn't merged yet (probably cos it's a public holiday in Germany)
 * haven't got the cache purging stuff figured out yet

Mark

 * Meeting day round 2,302
 * I need to sort out my inbox today or it will never happen

Pam

 * Added some stuff to Keegan's search prototype doc - want to add some more
 * Been writing out how best to incorporate/surface the Wikidata Editor (it's tricky) & designing a few versions.
 * Meetings throughout the day

Ramsey

 * meetings!
 * emails!
 * yesterday, got to completion/near completion on the Search documentation. Waiting for Cormac for final approval
 * 3-5 year planning stuff

Matthias

 * Fixing UW caption submission

Matthias

 * Search proto on labs in good condition to test
 * Looked at depicts work

Pam

 * Prepping stuff for Matthias for Depicts
 * Need to make changes to Wikidata Editor (modal) but that's not needed for the Depicts prototype

James

 * More review of Cormac's MCR patch with Adam S.; looking close!
 * Talked to MCR folks; cannot yet proceed with T189220 as it needs other work first.
 * [PL] Loose mocks of overall designs, e.g. reader-facing file page, would be helpful.

Mark

 * Interviews have made Tuesday meeting day
 * More resumé review later in the afternoon
 * Really ought to catch up on backlogs as well

Amanda

 * More grant report draft review
 * Catching up on where we are with designs/building things/community announcements

Ramsey

 * yesterday - lots of unexpected communications (but productive!)
 * started on updating the SDC search documentation, will finish that today
 * emails, emails, emails
 * 3-5 year planning madness continues

Cormac

 * MCR continues ... the *main* bug seems to be solved now, but I haven't quite caught up enough to be sure
 * we need some UploadWizard work after all - was gonna write up a ticket and maybe pass it to Matthias?
 * Absolutely, pass it on!

Keegan

 * OoO until noon PDT, errands
 * Check up on the wikis
 * Work on search prototype comms and "all files at once" comms

Amanda

 * Not really here, but how are we doing with integration bugs? Can someone send me a list of phab tickets?

Cormac

 * Still working MCR, lots of back and forth with Adam/Daniel ...

Mark

 * Hiring stuff is going to dominate the day (again, sigh) with hopefully some time to catch up on the ol' inbox later.
 * Datacenter switchover may happen a little later than planned (not the 9th, but the 11th), which may mean no deployments next week.

Pam

 * Anwered most/all of Sandra's comments on the Depicts Invision clickable prototype
 * Today working on the test protocol for the MLC user study (using User Testing dot com)

James

 * MCR readiness status, oy.
 * I messed up all our boards, hahahaha (if you have any questions, we can talk about that)
 * I created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205732 as the top-level "SDC code ready" task
 * On (my duplicate) Security review task, Lydia asked if a second one was needed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200279#4626430
 * [Maybe not?] Going to look at Matthias's search patch

Matthias

 * Worked on search prototype feedback - updated on labs
 * Work on incorrect Concept URI in sidebar
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205836 (that's that sidebar thing)

Ramsey

 * Documentation day (3-5 year planning, search documentation)
 * reviewing design stuff with Pam