Isolation log week 21
Isolation log week 21:
Work done from home 2020-08-04 to 2020-08-07 (4-day week).
Week 21 total hours: 29.25
G & T hours: 1.25
Tuesday 2020-08-04
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Planning LS's training and work for August in email.
0.25 hours: Oxygen: Test new build with fix for auto-complete bug we've been waiting for. Appears to be fixed.
0.50 hours: Maint: Update HCMC office desktop and software, including Windows VM.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
1.00 hours: Catching up with email, backups, updating repos etc. at HCMC.
1.00 hours: Endings: Project in-person meeting outside UVic Library.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: Fix a sorting problem with accented characters reported by PAB: she elected to strip diacritics before sorting bibl entries.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Finish implementing special font to provide three-em-dash for Macs which can't find it for themselves.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Encode all French abstracts and French version of editor's intro for vol 27. Report a couple of issues to HT.
0.25 hours: Moses: Work on classifying various uses of straight quotes, which will need to be converted into tagging.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Completion and submission of RAs' timesheets.
Total: 7.50 hours
Wednesday 2020-08-05
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Email check-in re planning for the fall release.
0.50 hours: Admin: registration for UBC online conference presentation.
4.00 hours: Wendat: Annotating document outlining required fields for reconstructed form encoding; building initial trial encoding examples; modifications to schema to support this. FR on TEI repo for the pron element to be added to att.typed, after TEI-L discussion.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Fixes for two tickets: more effective discrimination between large and very large tables for rendering on various screen sizes, and removal of RSS feeds from the build process, since we no longer want to maintain them.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Training session with LS, looking through Asana tickets that have piled up, and planning his future work.
1.00 hours: Endings: Retrieve all static site content, turn remotely-reffed things into local copies, update news page, and fix some invalidities (more to do). Add this content to the GitHub repo. Then fail to update the actual site, because everything's currently p0wned by gregster. :-(
Total: 8.25 hours
Thursday 2020-08-06
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Diagnose overnight build break causing nested HTML links, raise Asana ticket, fix bug and test.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Final tweaks to abstracts to make them fit on the page properly; build site and publish; report back to HT; confirm with her that special font fix for three-em-dashes on Macs has actually worked.
0.50 hours: Moses: Switching things marked with quotes to term elements, and adding rendering for them in the PDF.
0.75 hours: HCMC/Admin: Working through COVID-19 online course, and discussions/feedback on the return-to-work plan.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting, getting back up to speed, looking through tickets; work on issue of footnotes in character lists.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Fix for keyboard shortcut failing on Windows; more work on encoding of reconstructed forms; project meeting extended to discuss that work.
Total: 7.75 hours
Friday 2020-08-07
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Debug and fix problem with pointer in print rendering.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to plan next week's Stylesheets Group meeting.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Implementing a couple of tickets; investigating and commenting on a couple of others.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Added documentation covering pointer anchor issues.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Ultimately fruitless search for authoritative guidance on various dash lengths and their usage in early modern typography.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Encode project bibliography (initial set); write elementary rendering for it; modify xpath function for keystroke shortcut, and add two more shortcuts; report to team.
Total: 5.75 hours