Isolation log week 27
Isolation log week 27:
Work done from home 2020-09-14 to 2020-09-18
Week 27 total hours: 35
G & T hours: 0
Monday 2020-09-14
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.25 hours: MoEML: pre-release build, check, test, bugfix.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Zoom with PAB to discuss/plan RA training and next release of site.
1.50 hours: Wendat: RA interview, discussion, planning, beginning of conversion of another MS for encoding.
1.00 hours: HCMC/Maint: Discussions on RA workstations and training.
Total: 7.00 hours
Tuesday 2020-09-15
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting on Zoom.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Corrections to published article and review per author and HT; edit of Garamond No 8 Bold Italic font to add missing character small letter o with ogonek, required for vol 28 article.
5.00 hours: MoEML: Release day for edition 6.5. Lots of proofing, bugfixing, updating, and a project meeting. Final release, then some cleanup of the old content and raising of new bugs related to uncaught errors.
Total: 7.25 hours
Wednesday 2020-09-16
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Extract page-image from PDFs; build new Potier Misc MS; prep materials for svn and Oxygen training.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Follow-up on issues arising out of yesterday's release.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
0.75 hours: Eye Vocab: Data structure mapping based on rough spec from US, with SA. Follow-up questions to US.
0.50 hours: Scancan: More corrections to vol 27 article; published new site build with latest changes.
3.50 hours: Wendat: Prep for training session; training session.
Total 7.25 hours
Thursday 2020-09-17
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP: RA timesheet check and submission.
0.25 hours: Sanitize workstations used in training yesterday.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Add sections to documentation; reorganize documentation; add new page for RAs to site; update schema build process to handle TEI Github branch renaming.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Add new diagnostic to detect ids deleted but not properly retired with a redirect; test and deploy; use modified version to get full details of problem ids from last release for RAs to work on. New ticket for redirect to non-existent id.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix spacing bug and regenerate PDFs; install LaTeX libs on Jenkins to support PDF generation; add Jenkins task to build current PDFs, archive, and clean up afterwards. This saves manually updating GDrive versions every couple of days.
0.25 hours: Maint: Discussion with GN of deployment of new version of MRBS.
1.25 hours: DVPP: Preliminary implementation of function to convert CSS @selector attribute to XSLT @match syntax, along with XSpec tests. Coming along nicely.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Update publisher info in XML sources.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
Total: 7.25 hours
Friday 2020-09-18
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB; carry out discussed process for patching the released version of the Stylesheets, and report to Council.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Devised a system for ids for entryFree and form elements in transcribed manuscripts, and described it in detail in documentation, so we can get the team's approval before implementing. Resulting discussion over email, and more edits. Not settled yet. Wrote and tested XSLT to generate/add ids, or to re-id a document should that be necessary.
0.75 hours: GERU: Read and respond to US's responses to our questions. The putative algorithm is becoming slowly clearer, but there are still lots of ambiguities and vaguenesses to tease out and settle.
1.00 hours: DVPP: More work on CSS selector parser, devising approaches to handling pseudo-elements; email to the team for their reactions.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Investigation of possible mechanisms for configuring elements to be ignored entirely when indexing; raised enhancement issue for this, which both DVPP and Wendat could definitely use.
Total: 6.25 hours