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Isolation log week 77

Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-27 to 2021-10-01 (4-day week, 2021-09-30 stat)

Total: 29.75 hours
G&T: + 1.75 hours

Monday 2021-09-27

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates required cautious testing.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Refreshed TEI metadata for two periodicals; fixed the schema build process to take account of TEI Stylesheets changes.
0.25 hours: TEI: Ticket triage on Oxygen TEI repo.
1.50 hours: Scancan: First batch of proofing corrections for vol 28.
1.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch, Keats, BreezeMap, MyNDIR, Mariage, ColDesp: Fix for schema build process.
1.25 hours: BreezeMap: Implemented issues 43 and 44 (timelineChange custom event generation; not element support in place element).
1.75 hours: Moses: Finished implementing the persName purging step for the public build process; checked results and raised a couple of queries with SK and ECH; tweaked CSS for tab control.
0.25 hours: BCHT: Updated build process for TEI changes, and fixed a bug in documentation build.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-09-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.50 hours: MyNDIR: Diagnosing build break, discovered major issues with bibliography encoding and rendering, and spent some time fixing encoding and rewriting rendering code.
1.75 hours: Moses: Incorporated sorting based on Java collation; implemented user views for basic and learner; fixed a couple of bugs.
0.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting, and completion of one more feedback package.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Met with HT to discuss latest corrections; did corrections for first main article.
0.50 hours: Mariage: Preparations for non-beta release (making beta badge dependent on version string, and test-building).

Total: 8.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-09-29

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: Scancan: One more article proofing changes done; fix to auto-encoding algorithm and Schematron rule to prevent a systematic missing comma; other tweaks to other articles per discussion with HT.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Refreshed metadata in three periodicals; meeting with AC; general team meeting to discuss poem rendering issues.
1.50 hours: Moses: Rewrite of listings page generation to move away from slow-rendering tables an over to lists. Rendering of item status colours. Final bits of user-view storage and retrieval. Beginning of JS rewrite for item retrieval in the new listings view.
1.00 hours: Mariage: Running of the first few link-checking processes and report to CC; a couple of queries re upcoming release.
0.25 hours: BreezeMap: Feature discussions with GN and fix for one build bug.
0.50 hours: CGWP: Re-learning and examining db ingestion code written in 2018/2019 with GN.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2021-10-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to work on TEI tickets related to Schematron.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Did proofing corrections on two more vol 28 articles, and built/published latest to site.
2.00 hours: Moses: Finished rewrite of page layouts to use lists instead of tables, and then rewrote JS and CSS to handle nested item retrieval/display.
0.75 hours: BCHT: Discussions with DL and GL on schema build process, svn conflicts, and diagnostics plan.

Total: 6.25 hours

0.25 hours: Admin

Isolation log week 76

Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-20 to 2021-09-24

Total: 36.50 hours
G&T hours: +1.50

Monday 2021-09-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Tweaks to vol 28 article per HT and author.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Rebuilt TEI metadata for three periodicals; corrected problematic straight quotes in 20 person entries in the database.
1.50 hours: BCHT: Added site footer with edition info, SSHRC logo and basic styling, edition file, svn info retrieval, and pre-release version warning badge.
4.00 hours: Moses: Creating compilation PIs for building word-lists and gloss-lists, and fixing a few minor issues in original XML generation.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: With NC, finalizing removal of @n attributes from categories and dealing with fallout.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-09-21

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Find and fix build break issue.
2.00 hours: Moses: Various fixes to HTML build, along with a range of other fixes to Unicode character issues in the underlying data, revealed by the HTML validator. Added a Schematron rule to prevent nested ref elements.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: A catalogue of XSLT fixes to handle the removal of @n on the taxonomy and category elements.
2.00 hours: Wendat: New attribute from taxonomy; Schematron constraint for it; rewrite of stats generation code to add tracking for reconstructed entries; new reconstruction file; project meeting.
0.75 hours: MyNDIR: Meeting with PAB and SDK; fix to XSLT bug, and discussion of how to represent illustrators known only by their monograms.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2021-09-22

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates required careful testing and reboots.
1.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: Meeting with JJ to finalize responses to first submission.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Fixes for a couple of diagnostics issues, and creation of a new documentation page on encoding redirects, ready for testing by NV and ML.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Discussions about November release and changes required for it; triggered fresh build to get staticSearch updates and build failed; updated Saxon; waiting to see if build fails again.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Arranging to merge a split MS; added a new diagnostic per ML.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Meeting with AS and follow-up on ENG500.
1.50 hours: Moses: Added Schematron to catch orphaned combining diacritics and inadvertent PUA characters; re-organized CSS as SCSS build for PS; began work on JS interactivity layer.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2021-09-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: TEI: Two more reviews for upcoming conference. Testing of one more schema rule from TCW 32; Stylesheets working group meeting.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Merging three fragments of MS Potier 1751 that were split out for multiple encoders to work on them.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting, ticket triage.
0.75 hours: ColDesp/Endings/staticSearch: Debugging of what is apparently a new staticSearch issue triggered by ColDesp, which is the only project which has multiple feature/typeahead controls.
1.25 hours: Endings/DHQ: Working on feedback for authors with JJ.
1.50 hours: Moses: Basic JS retrieval and display now working, but lots of minor issues to work out.

Total: 7.25 hours

Friday 2021-09-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: TEI: Answering Slack questions about pull request.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Building and testing new schema elements for encoding citations; fix for hyph rendering in reconstructed forms.
3.25 hours: Moses: More progress on building static application, fixes for fonts, JS work, etc.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Lots of minor tweaks to layout; fix for missing data in maps pages; team meeting to discuss re-launch.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 75

Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-13 to 2021-09-17

Total: 36.00 hours
G&T hours: +1.0

Monday 2021-09-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: Read/annotate latest incoming article.
3.00 hours: Moses: More work on original XML generated content, as precursor input to the HTML generation. Removed old Schematron validation because new build is doing it better; added static build to site; got contributor list generation working; wrote all required templates to handle current content except for entries.
0.25 hours: BCHT: Fix for invalid file.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Fix for broken id; implementation of the remaining gnarly component of localCit referencing, which will surely slow the build, but there's no alternative. Tweaked various other bits and pieces in the process.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2021-09-14

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Checking results from yesterday's work; figuring out a fix for scroll-offset on inline anchor targets.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Project meeting and follow-up.
0.75 hours: Maint: Working on ant/exec issue with GN. No resolution yet.
1.50 hours: Moses: More work on output templates and rendering of standard pages.
2.50 hours: Wendat: More work on rendering of proofing view; meeting with ML and progress with reconstruction schema.

Total: 8.00 hours

Wednesday 2021-09-15

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Figure out obscure build break, and add Schematron to avoid it.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Clarify vague bits in my documentation on running apparatus linking process.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Update db files, update TEI metadata in 3 periodicals, fix two bad hash tags, point out issues with scroll-to-text-fragment URL in db to AC.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Set up new WS timesheet for CBR, contacted BS about possibility for remaining WS hours, and in the process did Windows patches.
1.50 hours: Maint: More testing to figure out how to get ant working on the HCMC lab build. No solution yet, but some progress.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Meeting with AC, and follow-up work on user permissions for repo and server.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Brief meeting with PB.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Building some diagnostics into the reconstruction rendering, and progress with generic diagnostics.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2021-09-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Changes to schema and construction of a collection of instance files for reconstruction work.
0.50 hours: Timesheets for workstudy and DVPP, hour tracking for Wendat.
1.00 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN and raising of various tickets to support whaling project.
0.50 hours: Academic: First review of submission for TEI conference.
2.50 hours: Scancan: Extensive revisions to vol 28 article, and correspondence with author/editor; rebuild and publication of site.
0.75 hours: Endings/DHQ: Responses and discussions of JT's final edit of DHQ paper; resulting changes and other potential changes to Principles.

Total: 6.00 hours

Friday 2021-09-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to work on Stylesheets tickets. Fixed an issue and raised a pull request.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Tweaks to rendering of reconstructions, discussions on schema.
2.75 hours: Moses: First pass at rendering entries, not yet building successfully.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Phone discussion with AC on possible collaborations with external encoders,
1.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 74

Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-07 to 2021-09-10 (4-day week)

Total: 19.25 hours
G&T: + 1.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-09-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Mariage: Added Schematron rule from other projects, enhanced over the weekend, to check table cell counts at the XML level.
1.00 hours: BCHT: Tweaks to build process to remove surplus documentation file; build break diagnosis and fix; other build process cleanup work.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Rebuild of metadata in three periodicals, to eliminate some diagnostics errors.
2.25 hours: Wendat: Got Cognate research listings rendering into usable HTML.
1.00 hours: Moses: Replaced original Schematron validation process with a new process and updated Schxslt version to 1.8, which solves OOM errors and improves speed considerably.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up, booking stations etc.

Total: 8.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-09-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Progress on products intended for text-analysis; retiring an id and dealing with fallout.
0.75 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN on features for whaling map; research on animating a marker along a line.
4.50 hours: Moses: Progress on static build process. Original XML now being created with useful maps pre-generating links to related items, and other progress.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2021-09-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: Moses: Progress with build file; adding generated table of entries for site; adding edition/version file for footer build.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Fix bad link and rebuild schema; discussions/poll on meeting times.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket triage, testing and merging a PR, cleaning up tickets, minor fix to avoid splash screen when no feature filters are present.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Initial work on rendering reconstruction for proofing/reading; meeting with SS for svn/XML/Oxygen training.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-09-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with NC to work on Stylesheets tickets.
0.25 hours: MoEML: SVN user configuration and discussion of training.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Created and integrated a new documentation page covering conversion of TLN referencing to TEI as part of remediation process.
0.50 hours: Maint: Research on methods of protecting access to build artifacts on Jenkins. Looks like the start-up flag -Dhudson.security.ArtifactsPermission=true might do it; need to test properly when there's more time.
3.50 hours: Moses: More progress with static build, with all HTML pages being created (without content yet, but including head, menu, footer and some metadata for search).

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 73

Work done from home and in the office 2021-08-30 to 2021-09-03

Total: 36.00 hours
G&T hours: +1.00

Monday 2021-08-30

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: TEI: Creating new release jobs on Jenkins; investigating the situation with the now-obsolete kindlegen used to turn ePub into mobi, which looks like it could be done using Calibre's ebook-converter, for future TEI builds.
1.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: First review of latest incoming paper.
1.25 hours: Academic/TEI: Review of paper for jTEI.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Implemented and tested a range of Schematron constraints for gram attributes based on previous discussions with ML.
0.50 hours: Maint: Checked into the state of HCMC Oxygen license use now that the labs are going to reopen, and contacted RAs who are currently using licenses.
2.00 hours: BreezeMap: Implemented step-forward and -back buttons on the timeline per feature request from GN (issue #38).

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2021-08-31

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Mariage: Diagnose build break and report to CC.
2.00 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting and follow-up.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Completed two schema-related tickets.
1.00 hours: BreezeMap: Research (so far only partially successful) into how we might determine the pixel dimensions of a rendered shape and show it as a point if it's below a certain size; preliminary work on custom category colours.
0.25 hours: Endings/DHQ: Some correspondence.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Documentation and schema build tweaks; rebuild of searchable TEI Guidelines following today's Guidelines release.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Some schema work, then meeting with ML to do test-encoding, then main project meeting.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-09-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Diagnosis and fix for overnight build break related to newly-added measure element not available in TEI Lite.
6.75 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with JJ to discuss urgent issues; worked through process of converting linked apparatus from TLN to TEI links, and added documentation; worked through some examples of cleaning up fallout from that, then completed the rest myself and passed the fixed files back to editors; added a new document status for brand-new Modern files not yet expected to conform to Schematron, and tweaked Schematron rules to account for it; reworked a lot of bibl-related code to include BEED1 file alongside BIBL1 and PROD1; added a temporary workaround for the loss of the Nashorn JS engine in Java, which breaks a couple of things in our build; started research on using Groovy instead of JavaScript as a scripting language in Ant build files.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2021-09-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Latin: Made various fixes to the Wendat exercises per MN.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Fixes to Schematron rules for TEI_collating documents.
3.75 hours: BCHT: Meeting for handover of project from GL to HCMC oversight; set up Jenkins job and debugged failures; fixed a bunch of things in the repo, some based on file system capitalization issues from Windows; got set up in Teams; various discussions over locations for media etc.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Research into history of apparent missing image for AC. Looks like the image was never there, not that it was deleted.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Reworked the splash loading popup to make it match the searching message; tested and merged a pull request from JT.
0.75 hours: Maint: Research and discussion on possible replacement monitors.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2021-09-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to work on tickets; also raised another couple of tickets and fixed a couple of things in the spec files spotted through staticSearch work and work on BCHT.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Work on the text output ticket: first figuring out what was being used and what wasn't in the XSLT, then rewriting a bunch of it to enable more flexible testing by providing docsToBuild at the command line in line with other processes; changed the selection criteria for texts to transform based on consultation with JJ.
2.00 hours: BCHT: More discussion/consultation on media storage and licensing; dived into the build process to sort out the duplicate schema problem, get the Schematron XSLT build working, fix some encoding issues, replace Saxon, and a few other tweaks and clarifications. Closed a couple of tickets and raised another.
0.50 hours: Various discussions around resources and planning for tile server, disk space, and other resources for upcoming grant applications.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 72

Work done from home and in the office 2021-08-23 to 2021-08-27

Total: 37.00 hours
G&T hours: + 2.00

Monday 2021-08-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Encoded French version of introduction, and added French abstracts to all articles for vol 28; reported a couple of questions and issues to HT.
0.75 hours: Maint: Jenkins server went down, with Apache unable to get a response from the Jenkins process. A reboot and some tweaks to virtual host file and removal of a potentially problematic plugin seem to have solved it.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Meeting with ALHS and JJ re facsimiles and msDesc encoding.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Abstracting duplicated code as I get back into poem rendering work; fixes for broken image links; planning meeting with AC.
1.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: First part of review of another paper.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-08-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: DVPP: More work on poem rendering, culminating in long set of questions for AC; collecting together timesheets & checking grant budget; rebuilding all TEI metadata in poems.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting and follow-up.
0.25 hours: Maint: Booted and updated all lab machines.
3.00 hours: BreezeMap: Working on support for custom icons for categories. First part (encoding and transforming info into JSON/JS) is now working; what remains is the rendering portion, which turns out to be tricky because of the way category rendering is handled right now.
0.75 hours: Maint: Experimenting (unsuccessfully) with Gnome Boxes as a possible replacement for VirtualBox.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-08-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: MoEML: Prep for project meeting, project meeting, implemented new prefixDef along with processing and Schematron, tested and committed.
2.50 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN about possible feature requests and suitability for whales project; more planning on how to pass category information to the style-generating feature. This may require a major rewrite, but it would probably be a good thing.
0.75 hours: Endings/DHQ: Meeting and discussion with other editors; some re-reading of submissions.
1.25 hours: TEI: More work on review of long jTEI article.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2021-08-26

0.50 hours: Maint: Periodic desk cleaning. Let KB know about cleaning supplies we need to order.
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Research and fix weird bug in rendering of long bibliography: Chromium-based browsers cap grid rows and columns at 1000, and after that just render a messy black blob. Had to rework as tables.
2.00 hours: TEI: Stylesheets working group meeting, prep and follow up on tickets.
1.25 hours: Maint: Research on new desktop purchase, and monitoring to see what maxes out in my current setup (it's CPU).
2.00 hours: BreezeMap: Finally figured out a decent approach to rendering custom icons, and then did some additional enhancement, cleanup and documentation.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2021-08-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB; created TEI wiki page for our initial plans for an ODD processor.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Encoding tweak for italics per HT.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Dug into the thorny issue of local citation pointers and how they should interact with the assp number/id system we've settled on. Fixed a problem which was removing required anchors during the build; wrote a first implementation of processing the pointers themselves, as well as generating link text representing the pointed-at location.
1.00 hours: BreezeMap: Research into clustering in the API documentation, and discussions with GN about integrating this, switching from shapes to points at specific zoom levels, and so on.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Wrote documentation for the new molshows prefix, and investigated options for get-next-id tool for encoders (which it turns out will need to wait for a repo reorg, so that the redirects are available). Added a semi-closed valList for @xml:lang along with Schematron to catch most common error.
0.25 hours: DVPP: On AC's instructions, published the latest version of the site to the live server.

Total: 7.25 hours

Isolation log week 71

Work done from home and in the office 2021-08-16 to 2021-08-20

Total: 35.00 hours
G&T hours: no change

Monday 2021-08-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: DVPP, Wendat: Timesheets and hour-tracking.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Handled issue 153, to allow HTML authors to use any HTML element in their search page, rather than being constrained to a div. Fixed some other minor annoyances at the same time.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Further progress on the schema for reconstruction.
1.25 hours: Endings/DHQ: Finished first read/comment of JM submission.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Took a deep dive into the out-of-memory error issue when building reports (issue 157), and implemented a workaround that should get us past the problem for the moment. Fixed a couple of other annoyances such as doubled trailing slashes on paths and missing documentation blocks.
0.50 hours: Despatches: Checked TODO list, fixed layout of search page explanation, and corrected some encoding errors and typos.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-08-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Scramble to figure out why MySQL dumps of the db were out of date; eventually it turned out to be a web server caching issue, now mitigated by turning off timestamp checking at download time and just getting the file. Refreshed metadata in one journal per AC.
1.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Cleanup of old tickets, and implementation of issue 156 for a splash screen to handle the slightly longer load times for sites with typeahead filters. Added documentation for yesterday's work.
1.75 hours: BreezeMap: Refactored the work on pan/zoom on the timeline, after some discussions with GN, completed the ticket, and merged the work into dev.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Testing new reconstruction schema with ML, and follow-up work; project meeting.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2021-08-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Fix overnight build break caused by duplicate id, caused by incomplete text version of id list intended for RAs to check for available ids.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Completed initial work on ticket to provide processing-instructions that cause the generation of documentation tables from taxonomies, charDecls and listPrefixDefs. Project meeting. Fix for problem with links in documentation in LEMDO anthology; documentation for programmers and documenters regarding PIs; a couple of bug fixes.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Discussion re format of xml:ids, addition of new wrapper element to reconstruction schema, signing of RA contracts, hour tracking sheet update.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Added some redirects, fixed a build break caused by bad @xml:lang value.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Chasing up another unprocessed timesheet.
1.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket triage, closing some old ones; quick fix for empty-file-output problem, pending more elegant solution; added another live project to the documentation.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2021-08-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: TEI: Checking on tickets and a couple of pull requests.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Looking at and discussing a couple of tickets/bugs that need to be cleared before 1.4 can be released.
1.50 hours: ProD: Attending XML/LaTeX/PDF meeting.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Plan for repo reorg; changes to both main and reconstruction schemas; emails laying the groundwork for Schematron rules in reconstruction schema and revisions to taxonomies.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Accessibility issue fixed: tooltips for e.g. supplied text etc. now also function as popups when the text is clicked.

Total: 5.50 hours

Friday 2021-08-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Regular meeting with SB, looking at pull requests and selecting tickets for Stylesheets Working Group.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Reorganization of repository to separate cognate work from reconstruction work, which required a lot of rewriting in the build processes and renaming.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: With JJ adding new elements, attributes and constraints to the schema for the manuscript encoding team.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Helping PAB with svn issue; adding new page and menu item, debugging a couple of small issues.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 42

Work done from home and in the office 2021-01-04 to 2021-01-08.

Total hours: 37.00
G&T hours: +2.00

Monday 2021-01-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Maint: Investigation/testing of dart-sass install to replace our current sassc, which is now deprecated; after next reboot of Jenkins I'll switch MyNDIR and LEMDO over to that, and we'll see how well it works.
6.00 hours: LEMDO: Complete rewrite of document type taxonomy, update of all XML documents and schemas, and fixes to processing required as a result. This will leave us in a better position to provide good search filter options. Lots of cleanup was needed, and weaknesses in our XSLT are evident.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2021-01-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Figure out and fix overnight build break.
0.50 hours: Maint: Update work desktop, lab machines, and HCMC laptop.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Discuss solution to encoding five-period figure; implement schema and schematron changes.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Static site launched by LW; rewrote the build process to remove all eXist content, fixed a couple of bugs, updated some info pages, moved obsolete files, added publication tasks, tested, and published latest build.
0.25 hours: Endings: Added Winter 2020 update to site.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Find and fix reported bug in diagnostic.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Process MS 60 into facsimile document ready for encoding; examine McGill-Chaumonot page-images and try various approaches to splitting the spreads into individual pages. Will need to be scripted using ImageMagick, I think.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-01-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Split and remediate page-images to create 740 individual page-images for McGill-Chaumonot MS; create TEI file for the MS, add new doctype category for grammars, and update stats.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix menus and listings pages broken by changes to taxonomies; fix bugs in rendering linebreaks; work out and test encoding of verse with rhyme; remediate FV_Q1 to fix hundreds of bad entity references.
1.25 hours: Endings: Project meeting and tweaks on bulletin board.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Added new What's New section to documentation, and did other prep for the upcoming release.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Track down and fix spacing issue in QME toolbox.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2021-01-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: Maint: With GN, testing of Tomcat 9, eXist apps, and different JDKs to determine what we need on the replacement for Peach. Long discussions of staticization strategies and search functionality for CGWP, Francotoile, VIHistory and other sites.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Working on overnight build break, discussions of tracking for document history versus document status and Schematron, fixes to many documents and to Schematron rules.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting and
1.00 hours: Endings: Update to website to add Symposium page; started remediating the horrible old HTML to create something processable, so I can more easily maintain the site with a build process.

Total: 7.25 hours

Friday 2021-01-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: New taxonomy for document history.
1.50 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB: working on the Japanese ruby proposal.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Fix for diagnostics and other tweaks to complete all my outstanding tickets.
2.25 hours: LEMDO: Write basic documentation for new taxonomies; update conversion processing chains to add in new categories when generating documents; addition of new categories to existing documents.
2.25 hours: Endings: Plans for tech paper; created build process for site, removing piles of unwanted JS and abstracting core components into XSLT variables; added new pages and tweaked existing pages; got everything to validate; published latest version.

Total: 8.00 hours

Isolation log week 41

Work done from home and in the office 2020-12-21 to 2020-12-23 (short week, taking vacation on the 24th).

Total hours: 21.50
G&T hours: +0.50

Monday 2020-12-21

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Add Schematron rule to try to prevent build break from last night. Took a few shots to get it right.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Cleaned up and pruned some old branches; merged JT's branch for apostrophe handling; fixed a bug in scroll-to-text-fragment URL construction; tested it in Graves and MoEML; created a new branch for issue 51, document sort keys, which we need for the Despatches; implemented and tested it.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Configured new metatags for all documents consisting of sort keys as required by JT for search result returns.
3.25 hours: LEMDO: Handled CSS margin ticket; discussed with JT and JJ the current behaviour of popups on the site, agreed on a more elaborate multiple-popup implementation, planned out the details and created a ticket for it; fixed broken behaviour whereby when annotations and collations were turned off in the toolbox, their signals/symbols remained confusingly visible; discussion with JJ on peer-reviewed status versus catRef; decided on status, implemented and re-edited existing documents accordingly.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Integrated translations from ML into project stats page; added new stat for unclear passages, and integrated that into diagnostics chart.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-12-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: ColDesp/Endings/staticSearch: Test results of new sort key implementation in Despatches build; inform Despatches team; create pull requests on staticSearch repo to land the code in the dev branch.
1.00 hours: Despatches: Switch back to dev branch of staticSearch following merge; create icons for different doc types to use in search results, and integrate into site build.
1.00 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting; fixes for and Schematron to prevent two types of nested links; add harvesting of required XML source documents into anthology trees; add document status row to page metadata.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Write documentation for new sort key feature; triage tickets and create new milestone ready for a decision on 1.1 release.
1.75 hours: MyNDIR: Setting up initial Author Mode CSS for easier direct proofing in Oxygen per discussion with PB.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-12-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Graves/ColDesp: Raise and complete ticket for format consistency for meta tags; bring Graves and ColDesp into alignment with the new forms and test. Triage all tickets assigned to Release 1.1, and assign some to 1.2, summarize others and raise questions, and start dialog with JT on the ones which may be implemented for the upcoming 1.2. Do some code-polishing and documentation, particularly in the JS for the search.
1.25 hours: MoEML: More fixes for broken and redirected links throughout the collection, based on W3C linkchecker results (page #23).
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Tweak size of search page hit doc icons.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Set up vol 28 master with what we have so far; test-built PDF and made tweaks to processing to handle odd characters in headings.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: More tweaks to Author Mode CSS.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 40

Work done from home and in the office 2020-12-14 to 2020-12-18

Total: 40.00 hours

G&T hours: +5.00

Monday 2020-12-14

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Fix a couple of issues discovered as a result of Scancan work this weekend.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Set up Jenkins job; integrate staticSearch; test and debug default search behaviour; start implementing custom overrides to provide links to old volumes and to current PDFs.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Add new Schematron to prevent egXMLs in headings.
1.00 hours: Endings: Library archiving meeting.
1.00 hours: Mariage: Unsuccessful attempts to get current eXist configured as existing Mariage webapp is configured. May have to go for full-blown staticization instead.
2.50 hours: Scancan: More testing, debugging, and refining the integration of staticSearch. Almost done.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-12-15

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Fixing a couple of build breaks introduced by unexpected encoding patterns in documentation. Found workaround encodings and added Schematron to prevent unwanted patterns.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Tweaks to search weighting to push old full-volume PDFs down the list in relevance scoring (still not properly tuned).
2.00 hours: HCMC Staff Meeting.
3.00 hours: LEMDO/MoEML: MoEML Project meeting, LEMDO QME state-of-play meeting, implementing four changes arising from that, testing and debugging.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Did a documentation ticket, followed up on a couple of other issues.
0.50 hours: Mariage: Debugging XQuery code no longer working on new eXist. Determined it was due to using early implementation of XQuery maps code, subsequently removed from the spec and no longer supported by eXist. Could be rewritten, but probably best to put the time into staticizing Mariage.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Diagnosing and fixing build break due to double link.

Total: 8.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-12-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Diagnose overnight build break and change colliding id.
1.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: first implementation of KWIC pointers to document fragment ids (issue 88) along with scroll-to-text-fragment, which now seems to be working.
1.00 hours: Endings/diagnostics: debug issues raised on ticket, check and test problem with Nashorn JS engine now no longer supported in Oxygen's JDK; with JT implement partial solution. More to do here.
0.50 hours: Keats: Fix JS bug I noticed while testing staticSearch. Test switch to new fragment-supporting staticSearch, but page-load JavaScript undermines it; needs more investigation.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Add fragment ids to major article sections; update vnu validator version and fix new warnings resulting; test with new staticSearch branch, but still need to rewrite custom override JS to have this work properly.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: add feature detection to allow regular fragment navigation in non-Chrome browsers; test in other browsers; discussions of the best way forward with scroll-to-text-fragment. Switched MoEML to the test branch to see the results tomorrow.
0.50 hours: Emails on Moses, Endings meeting poll, ticket triage.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2020-12-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: find scrolling bug when search string is empty, raise ticket, commit fix (hopefully), and kick off MoEML build to test. Following test with Keats, switched it back to dev branch, since page-load JS interferes with it anyway. More discussion on ticket.
0.25 hours: Scancan: fix for obsolete @type on style tags.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Re-encoded bibliography using proper tagging.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Confirm bugfix worked, cherry-pick commit into dev, close ticket; read background to Mozilla's position on scroll-to-text-fragment.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Port recent staticSearch changes into override JS, build, bugfix and test; add more robust fragment id generation that will not change with every build; add lang attribute to root element of all files; fix broken ids in old volumes.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Test scroll-to-fragment and fragment-link features in MoEML search; add document status descriptor to search page; implement special styling for semi-diplomatic texts, and fix XSLT bug in handling of lgs in the process.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Implement tagging protocol for "interesting things", and add documentation and harvesting process.
2.25 hours: ColDesp: Working on errant spaces, and discovered a lot of erroneous tagging that needed fixing, as well as lots of XSLT sloppiness of my own making, now fixed; not clear yet whether all problems are solved.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 8.00 hours

Friday 2020-12-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: ColDesp: Deep dive into remaining issues with unwanted whitespace around quotes and footnote numbers; various fixes committed at different stages of the build process. Now apparently all fixed.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Working on getting an RA paid for work in the fall. Not yet resolved.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC to work on Stylesheets issue for adding anchors to examples. Worked through a CORS problem on my Jenkins at the same time (blocking of inline styles).
4.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Scancan/MoEML: Building on JT's work on XSLT yesterday, adding new scrollToTextFragment switch, documentation, and implementation; tested in the various other projects; worked through some plans on tickets; after JT merged changes, switched projects back to dev branch; created schema patching stage in build process so we can get rng interleave output (working around TEI bug); updates to documentation.
0.25 hours: Keats: Added Schematron to help avoid bad image links.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Discussion with JT on video issues; researched adding poster frames to videos, and scripted addition of poster frames to 21 scene videos.

Total: 9.00 hours