Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/20111115

Parser / Visual Editor

 * Trevor, Inez, Neil, Brion, Gabriel, Roan

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Trevor
 * Fixed major issues blocking the synchronization of structural edits to the user interface
 * Refactored several areas of the code to reduce bloat and repetition
 * Mapped out features to be supportted (still a work in progress)
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Features
 * Finish mapping out features to be supported
 * Prioritize list
 * Add status to each item in list
 * Finish (finally) the last parts of the transaction system
 * Create an undo/redo system (may delegate this)
 * Get side-by-side preview working in Demo again
 * Need moar power! (people power that is)

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Roan
 * Added tests for splitting paragraphs
 * Rewrote removal commit code to make those tests pass
 * Random fixes
 * Wrote leaf node traversal code Trevor requested
 * Fixed test breakages specific to IE
 * Whatever Trevor tells me to work on next
 * None, really, but need Trevor to assign work, and not spend more than ~2d/wk

Last week: This week: Sometimes view & model tree sync is a blocker, but Trevor manages to solve most of the problems right away
 * Inez
 * Finished support for moving cursor and creating content selection with keyboard and/or mouse (various different combinations, for instance with holding shift, control/command key down)
 * Basic supoport for content insertion
 * Turned listItems into branches (from leafs) which affected how WikiDom looks like (it let's us have table in listitem - which apparently is allowed in wikitext)
 * Working on better support for content insertion
 * Adding content removal (which includes for instance nodes merging)
 * Working on transactions stack - to support undo/redo functionality
 * Basic research to figure out how to implement support for content copy&paste
 * Add more description of interactions to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Features
 * Blockers:

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Brion
 * a little feedback for gabriel

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Gabriel
 * Added inline productions and improved WikiDom compatibility, but blocked on missing support for overlapped ranges in PEG parser. Evaluated alternatives for robust larger-scale parsing, and proposed using the HTML5 parser spec in Wikitext-l. General parser bug triage with Sumana.
 * More bug triage on Monday, but working on evaluating/integrating JS HTML5 parsers now. A few candidates, node.js compat important for now. General interface tokenizer (PEG) -> HTML parser. WikiDom generation either from generated DOM or direct (likely later).
 * Decision on HTML-derived parser cleared design block up

AFT
Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Dario
 * Worked on AFTv5 data model, metrics requirements and data analysis plan
 * Worked on guidelines for marking of AFT-generated edits and account tracking
 * Prepare protocol for community assessment of feedback
 * Finalize bucketing algorithm specs
 * Article sampling strategy for quant/qual analysis
 * Review with Community dept random task allocation project
 * None

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Roan
 * Reviewed DB schema for AFTv5 with the OmniIT contractors
 * Whatever OmniIT needs from me :)

WikiLove

 * Development on hold


 * Deployments at will.

MoodBar
Last week This week Blockers:
 * RobM
 * Review MoodBar extension Phase 1 / 2 requirements
 * Require user to leave comment, front end, via validation method

Last week This week Blockers:
 * Benny
 * Review Moodbar phase 1 / 2 requirements and the extension code
 * Added server side validation for empty comment
 * Deployments to extra wikis are now open, provided that community consensus is shown and the tool has been localized.

Feedback Dashboard
Last week This week
 * Dario
 * Updated research plan with questions on response to MoodBar messages http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:MoodBar
 * Review Aaron's proposal for tracking response time

This week
 * RobMo
 * Allow for inline reason on restore / hide feedback with confirm and cancel button
 * Redlinked users without user pages
 * Layout / Font adjustments

This week
 * Benny
 * Show the user/timestamp/reason for hiding a feedback
 * will design the two new APIs: replying to a feedback and pull a list of response to a feedback
 * Deployments to extra wikis are now open provided that community consensus is shown and the tool has been localized.

New Article Creation/New Page Patrol
Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Howie

Last week: This week:
 * Dario
 * Reviewed data and preliminary survey results with Oliver/Howie
 * Move data to collaborative spreadsheet and support Oliver with data analysis
 * Document project on Meta

Last week:
 * Ian
 * Reviewed survey results, started cataloguing common NPP issues.

UploadWizard
Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Neil
 * finished custom license feature;
 * deployed new UploadWizard late Thursday
 * Then had to turn off multi-file in prod due to skew in the API, trunk is now very different from prod.
 * Found we could not re-enable features easily due to other trunk-prod skews.
 * cleanups from UW deploy. redeploying today (Tuesday). Will also fix some stuff for legal later.
 * see if I can get etherpad-mediawiki actually working inside WikiEditor, so we can finally deploy that?
 * Any other leftover time goes to parser/editor stuffs w/Trevor
 * Could use Trevor's help on WikiEditor stuff (hard to understand WikiEditor config system)

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Ian
 * Turns out chunked upload backend is not actually ready for use. Reworked things so we get FormData API without chunking so we can deploy muti-file select now, will coordinate with j on FIXMEs in chunking code.

I18n / L10n tools

 * Team going to India.

Concluded sprint #2 on Monday:
 * Code review of WebFonts
 * Fix shortcut key of Narayam
 * Narayam remembers the 5 last used schemes
 * Basic version of message group workflows for Translate

ResourceLoader 2.0
Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Roan
 * Wrote maintenance script for migration
 * Fixed bugs reported against prototype set-up
 * Did some TODO gnoming
 * Resurrect ancient unit tests and try to make them pass. This will be hard

Last week: This week: Blockers:
 * Timo
 * (WebFonts extension review)
 * bug fixes
 * New category (polish and commit)

Personal image filter

 * On hold

Other notes...

 * Dario
 * Worked on specifications for user lookup routine for CentralNotice (Harvard/Sciences Po study)
 * Worked on plan for storing and exposing pageview stats
 * Random RCom work

Ideas for next meeting
Replace IRC "meeting" with a more public Q&A/weekly updates like "IRC office hours" (on #wikimedia-dev) Enforce writing bullet-points in the etherpad for sharing project status Save etherpad to wiki page after the meeting is over (keep the etherpad pseudo-restricted) Advertise the office hours on mailing lists