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Isolation log week 39

Work done from home and in the office 2020-12-07 to 2020-12-11

Total hours: 34.75

G&T hours: -0.25

Monday 2020-12-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Maint/HCMC: Started work on an svn/github log parser for easier project tracking.
0.50 hours: Greek Athenaze exercise bug fix. Took longer than it should because of confusion between HP versions.
5.25 hours: LEMDO: Revisited inclusion method for editions: simply relying on links on the edition page is not practical. Implemented system using relatedItem elements in the header, added processing and Schematron for it, and fixed existing edition pages to comply. For FV, created 19 individual scene pages and imported thumbnail images required from old site. Implemented processing for inline persName to create popups; analyzed the use of the front element and its processing, and wrote some utility XSLT to add front elements where they're missing in born-digital docs to aim at some consistency in retrieving the document title. Processed QME anthology pages with this XSLT.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-12-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: List out work from the last two weeks ahead of project meeting this morning.
2.00 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting; add processing for orgName.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Debug build warning and add Schematron to avoid it.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Encode new review; required some research as book info was wrong.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Implement processing to generate metadata table on web pages.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2020-12-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Update review with keywords and author bio.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Add handling for list/@rend (needs later work on CSS to complete ticket).
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting, prep for it, and tweaks to search build configurations.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Remove and disallow all uses of list/@rendition in documentation; replace with @rend; add XSLT and CSS to handle; test and debug; fix strange templates removing various attributes in documentation XSLT; switch other uses of @rendition over to conceptual elements (foreign, emph etc.) and add XSLT and CSS handling for four of these.
1.00 hours: Coldesp: Debug/discuss over-use of q element in born-digital content; fix rendering and display of vessel names (italic in born-digital contexts, otherwise as-shown).
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Debug svn problem for PAB.
0.50 hours: Maint/HCMC: VCS logging tool: got the basic structure working for svn.

Total: 6.50 hours (dental appt this morning).

Thursday 2020-12-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Endings: Testing new phpBB.
0.50 hours: Admin: Emails, ticket checks on various projects.
4.50 hours: Wendat: Implementation of historical stats retrieval process, creation of diagnostics framework with progress chart, integration of diagnostics and progress into build process; project meeting.

Total: 5.75 hours (internet outage in the morning).

Friday 2020-12-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: With SB, complete Stylesheets ticket #471 and create pull request.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Deal with various FV content tickets to help push QME to release-ready.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Inverstigate and remediate inconsistent tagging of vessel names across the collection; fix CSS to unitalicize vessel names which appear in quotations.
0.50 hours: Maint: Check status of eXist apps on Peach, warn Moses team that the app may not survive the move to a new VM; check status of Graves and RT ticket.
1.00 hours: Graves: Build, test and deploy static web site, and put in ticket for domain pointer change.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Get bibl pointers working for simpler bibliography creation.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Meeting with eds re future plans; implementation and testing of staticSearch as replacement for eXist application.

Total: 8.25 hours

Isolation log week 38

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-30 to 2020-12-04

Total hours: 38.50

G&T hours: +3.50

Monday 2020-11-30

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers; did this twice, because kernel updates appeared during the day, and I had to work around active builds.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Review proposal for temporal authority names ahead of tomorrow's meeting.
0.25 hours: LEMDO/MoEML: review and triage current tickets assigned to me.
1.00 hours: TEI: Work on Ruby/Japanese proposal, creating some basic examples to work from.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Encoded complete article for volume 29 and rebuilt site.
2.25 hours: LEMDO: Work on QME site style replication.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: two more step 1 procedures implemented in French stemmer in JS and XSLT, with tests.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-12-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Stylesheets working group meeting, working on anchors for egXMLs. 6am start.
1.25 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.50 hours: EyeVocab: Deep dive into repo to figure out what progress is being made; report to RB and US.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Prep for meeting, project meeting, follow-up from meeting.
2.50 hours: ColDesp: Proofing and fixing ready for release tonight/tomorrow.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2020-12-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Admin/Academic: Prep for mock interview with GJ/SR/RS/MD this afternoon.
3.00 hours: ColDesp: Archive release 2.1; Build and push new 2.2 release; test and investigate; identify minor issue with obsolete files from previous builds; reorganize build process and Jenkins job to avoid the problem; rebuild...
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Set up ticket for PS to continue work on QME site.
1.75 hours: Admin/Academic: mock interview.
2.00 hours: Coldesp: Diagnose and fix new build break due to reconfigured build process; once build completed, publish to site, then carefully clean out old unmodified files, folder by folder. Reset edition number, and let team know commits can go ahead.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: finished step 1 of the French stemmer implementations.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2020-12-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Review and comment on plan for QME.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Author's corrections to review, and other fixes for minor typos in a number of articles discovered in the process; responses to author.
5.50 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with JJ and follow-up in planning reorg or resources on home1t, and bugfixes for anthology diagnostics and processing; reorganization of images and fixes to processing to handle this; first part of module to prune unwanted images from lemdo-dev when building anthology; various fixes for things encountered along the way.
0.25 hours: Coldesp: Did some more cleanup on previous edition site litter while waiting for backups.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-12-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: Completed code for more elegant image handling across anthologies.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC, to fix latest build break and finish adding anchors to examples in the Guidelines.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: Retrieving lots of required images from the old QME and DRE sites, and adding them into appropriate locations; fixing a few hundred image links that were pointing out to those sites; reorganization/renaming of some text documents inconsistently named; documentation of how to store and link to images; various other fixes and tweaks.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fix for diagnostic that was too broad, per KL; added CSS class to body for semi-diplomatic transcriptions, ahead of adding actual rules for these documents.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Updates of TODOs, fixes for my tagging last week, and some regex-based auto-tagging of examples; project meeting.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Diagnosing build break due to case error in id.

Total: 8.25 hours

Isolation log week 37

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-23 to 2020-11-27

Total hours: 35.75

G&T hours: +0.75

Monday 2020-11-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Start work on rendering of apparatus where witnesses are correctly identified.
0.25 hours: Keats: Build and publish edition 3.6.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix hundreds of variations of http://*.uvic.ca URLs in various contexts, which need to be https, and implement Schematron rule to constrain.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Get apparatus/witness rendering working correctly.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Tagging abbreviations and forms in one of the Potier MS docs to see what we might be able to speed up.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Figure out and fix gnarly issue with the duplicate-id diagnostic.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Update documentation for installing svn on Macs; add documentation and related
CSS to site build output, and add a link to it.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Start work on centralized respStmt RESP1 collection.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-11-24 (short day, long dental appointment)

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Debugging svn conflict.
5.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix menu appearance; work around JS bug; get content showing in aside menu for non-play pages; work on centralized respStmts, along with long Teams discussion which resulted in shelving that idea in favour of a more limited implementation limited to documentation; discussion and triage of tickets for QME release milestone; fixes for bad links and missing attributes.

Total: 5.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-11-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Mariage: figure out build warning and configure log parser to suppress unwanted report.
3.00 hours: MyNDIR: Tightening up schema and adding Schematron; discussions with PAB re procedures for training; training session.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Discussion/decisions on implementing granular respStmts for documentation only; implementation of necessary schema changes; creation of respStmts and sample pointers; fixes and updates to all downstream processing of documentation files. (Not finished yet.)

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2020-11-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Diagnose overnight build-break and fix original source XML, as well as XSLT edge case that caused the break.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage, fixing build break, prep for meeting.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Create responsibility taxonomy, add prefixDefs, incorporate into schema build process, add respStmts to all our MS transcriptions, test and bugfix; check out shortcuts on Mac, follow up on previous TODOs.
0.25 hours: Maint: Testing new kiwano web cluster machine on HCMC sites.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Meeting on QME release plans; two tickets raised, three tickets completed.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Fix for second build break due to unexpected content in one file.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: Implemented and tested another stemmer step in js and XSLT.
1.00 hours: Wendat project meeting.

Total: 8.25 hours

Friday 2020-11-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to prepare issues for next week's Stylesheets meeting.
2.00 hours: Wendat: New keyboard shortcut, tested on alll OSes with variant keyboards; new Schematron; enquiries about options for dual monitors; bugfix for unwanted spaces in output.
0.50 hours: Maint: Windows updates on my VM, and associated config-wrestling.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Setting up initial QME anthology customization, and beginning work on making it mimic the original site. Lots of work to do here.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Entered author corrections for vol 28 article; published site.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 36:

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-16 to 2020-11-20

Total hours: 36.75

G&T hours: +1.75

Monday 2020-11-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Add check on local anthology pages to pre-flight anthology build diagnostics.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Check into new ticket assigned to me on role-counting, and post response.
6.50 hours: LEMDO: Refactor anthology dirs and contents; change css to scss and and build step; create anthology build target and associated files; begin outlining build process; create template files; create build pipeline; add processing for all files (except home page, still missing), but no actual changes in place yet.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-11-17

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Main jenkins failed to install properly, and required some intervention; TEI jenkins had no problems.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Started putting together transition plan for a future move to another institution; shared with HT and SA for comments.
0.25 hours: EyeVocab: Meeting arrangement, and recap of correspondence so far.
1.25 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
1.25 hours: MoEML Project meeting.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Got the anthology basically building, using the template, renaming files and fixing links appropriately.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-11-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Overnight email on ColDesp, LEMDO etc.
4.00 hours: EyeVocab: Building a preliminary data-model for the item bank, in preparation for meeting with UCD team; Zoom meeting; subsequent discussions, revisions to model, reading through existing codebase, etc.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: Get MoMS anthology building; write override CSS to make it palatable to look at and test the process; add anthology building to the main build.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2020-11-19

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Initial troubleshooting of certbot renewal problem, still to be resolved, on teijenkins.
0.25 hours: TEI: Caught the last bit of the TEI Members Meeting.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions on anthologies and a fix to the old QME site.
0.75 hours: EyeVocab: More work on item bank data model; results posted to Slack channel.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Did some simple metrics on progress ahead of today's meeting.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: More work on customization of moms, some work on errors and problems in the main lemdo-dev build, and updates to documentation on anthologies.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 6.75 hours

Friday 2020-11-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Diagnosing and reporting XSS bugs in MS Teams.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to work on calendar-related ticket, and prepare for Stylesheets Group meeting in a couple of weeks.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Tagging a particularly gnarly review with many style errors to fix; fixing a bug in footnote handling in HTML output; publishing new version of the site incorporating changes.
3.00 hours: MoEML/LEMDO: Planning a migration to centralized respStmts to simplify resp assignment and make it more granular (detailed discussions in Teams); testing/investigation of the likely scale of work and consequences; implementation of a new lew: prefix for old-style unexplained witnesses in LEMDO collations; implementation of handling for those changes.

Total: 7.50 hours

Isolation log week 35:

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-09 to 2020-11-13 (4-day week, Wed is holiday)

Total hours: 29.25

G&T hours: +1.25

Monday 2020-11-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: LEMDO: implementing new menus for lemdo-dev; project meeting with interface designers; discussion with JJ.
1.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: more steps and tests on French stemmers, including a refactoring to reduce calculations.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Preprocess next vol 28 article; set up XML file; encode first half of bibliography.

Total: 6.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-11-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: fix error in step1f of stemmer with help from OB and MP.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Finish encoding bibliography for latest vol 28 article, along with introduction.
1.50 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting, getting familiar with Teams, raising, completing and closing simple tickets.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fix for spacing issue with blockquotes; proved more complicated than it should have been.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Fixing, testing and re-fixing script for PS so that it actually does work on Macs. Discussion with JJ about the mass of media files on iseadmin, and what we should do with them; Debugging and fixes for broken http links to images on ise site.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: implemented steps 1g and 1h in stemmers, with tests.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2020-11-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Add new doc taxonomy category for lemdo-dev anthology; rebuild schema.
0.50 hours: Maint: Discussion with GN about site-level stats and requirements; testing of current analytics.
0.25 hours: GRS/Greek: Check and fix typos in Greek exercise per MN.
1.50 hours: TEI: Infrastructure Group meeting.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Prep for meeting this afternoon; orking on keystroke shortcut issues on Mac w/French Canadian keyboard; implementation of dynamic keypad for search page on site.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Finished encoding the next article for vol 28 and posted it for proofing.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 8.25 hours

Friday 2020-11-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Maint: test server/db sites and report problem with cluster migration.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to work on altIdent/FPI ticket.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Refactor anthology diagnostics, and build diagnostics for all anthologies into main build process.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: Implement another stage in the French stemmer, with tests.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Debug and work around a build-breaking validation problem caused by the hierarchy rewrite during the generation of Original XML; debugging of a subsequent problem involving figures inside stage directions, discussion and fix.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Preliminary work on calculating and storing fragment ids for KWIC strings so that we can provide links to specific locations in the document (issue #88).
0.50 hours: Move of Hot Potatoes User group from Yahoo to Google Groups.

Total: 7 hours

Isolation log week 34:

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-02 to 2020-11-06

Week 34 total hours: 36.25

G&T hours: +1.25

Monday 2020-11-02

2.00 hours: Presentation at UBC conference session (Saturday).
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.00 hours: Wendat: Query to GR on Latin abbr; new sections in documentation on document structure, lists/tables, names inside Wendat forms, and other topics; updates to schema to support dictionary stuff in tables; add RNG and Schematron validation into the build process; other fixes.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Preliminary work on French stemmer.
0.50 hours: ISE/QME: Fix broken links and URLs on the old site per JJ. Normalized all bases to qme.uvic.ca.

Total: 7.25 hours.

Tuesday 2020-11-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Stylesheets Working Group meeting.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket discussion with user re changing attribute name.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Project meeting; bugfix for missing favicon.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Discussions with JJ and PS re project structure, lemdo-dev vs lemdo vs redesign; fixes to CSS; meeting with JJ; starting on reorganization of project structure and build process.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: diagnosis of user-reported issue re diacritic-stripping pseudo-stemmer.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Remove hard-coded CSS files and add build target into build process; remove other unwanted files; Q to PS about some scss source files.

Total: 8.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-11-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Set up and test MS Teams; add instructions to Teams ticket on link-checking.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Dig out XML presentations and customize for today.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Fixes for various rendering issues, and reorganization of lemdo-dev CSS.
2.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More work on implementation of French stemmer and test suites for it.
0.75 hours: MyNDIR: Intro to XML presentation/discussion.
1.00 hours: Endings: Project meeting re symposium.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More work on French stemmers.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2020-11-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Endings: Discussion with Library folks about terms and conditions for accession, and the need for us to cover that in our Endings recommendations.
1.00 hours: Discussion with GN about migration of teijenkins and plan for further migrations, as well as GitLab deployment.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Fixes for HTML rendering of listings/TOC tables; Script to enable PS to work easily on CSS without building everything locally; much time wasted wrestling with broken build problem due to build target not having fully-explicit file paths; more time wasted rolling back inadvertent reversions in build file and XSLT committed by someone working on other stuff.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting
0.75 hours: LEMDO: More efforts to fix broken build.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-11-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Work with SB on mapping the various language parameters through the Guidelines build process, to prepare for internationalization work.
2.00 hours: GERU: Prep, meeting with SA, US and RB on the UC Davis application, subsequent discussion.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions on programming roles, avoidance of build breaks, etc.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More progress with the two French stemmer implementations.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Styles for egXML, tweaks to table layout.

Total: 6.50 hours

Finally got some time to put into the Despatches site build, and started by reorganizing the current setup so that everything is driven from a single central build.xml file, with the option to pass a subset of files through the process for quick testing. Then reworked the generation of original and standalone XML considerably (there's more work to do there), and did a pile of bugfixing. Got the correspDesc stuff working, and started on metadata generation for the HTML output. 240 minutes.

I have to finish implementing the tests, but I've done 17 so far and they're all passing. 120 minutes.