This morning we had the intro session for the RAs, and they'll be starting tomorrow. I've now begun work on the diagnostics which will track our progress, as well as adding ordinary backups to the build file; the build file now has two combining targets, the do_all, which is what will happen on Jenkins, and the admin, which is what I'll run locally, to transform or generate things that need to be committed to svn or stored locally. I've also laboriously added the English 500 encoded XML poems to the repo organized by journal and year (it's clearer than using the variable vol/issue kind of organization), and I'll be doing the same with the original hundred poems we did a few years ago. Steady progress.