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