Isolation log week 45

Work done from home and in the office 2021-01-25 to 2021-01-29.

Total hours: 36.25
G&T: +1.25

Monday 2021-01-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Some debugging of build breaks; implemented a ticket to provide a document sort key for filter-only searches.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Discussion of handover options and HCMC support.
0.50 hours: TEI: Work on Ruby ticket.
0.50 hours: Endings: Drafted intro section to DHQ piece.
5.00 hours: Mariage/Endings/staticSearch: Rewrote the JS French stemmer from scratch, based on the XSLT; got the result down to only 87 errors in the 20,000+ tests, but the last few are proving very obscure and difficult.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-01-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Prep for team meeting later.
0.50 hours: TEI: Correspondence and ticket posts on ruby proposal.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Addition of new diagnostic output page listing abbreviations tagged as Latin that may be Wendat.
3.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: Finished and tested the JS French stemmer.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2021-01-27

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates, reboots and various complexities.
1.00 hours: Mariage/Endings/staticSearch: Testing the Jenkins build of Mariage with French stemming included; drafting English versions of possible search page explanatory material.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Investigation of compiled JS version of Snowball stemmers, and discussion with JT of possible ways we might use the Java lib from XSLT and the JS from the search page, to get the full benefit of all 29 stemmers available in Snowball.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Discussion on image rendering; addition of documentation for halfWidth images, missing for some reason; some reorganization of the repo; discussion on possible major reorg since eXist is now no longer in the picture.
2.00 hours: TEI: Work on the ruby ticket, including a first draft of the introductory Guidelines section, posted for comments.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Answered a couple of questions; did preliminary work on a ticket to add edition links to all texts appearing in editions.
0.50 hours: Moses: Meeting with ECH re fate of webapp and print dictionary.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Updating documentation to catch up with new features and better prepare for the next release.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2021-01-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Discussions on sourceDesc contents and pointing to BIBL1 entries.
1.00 hours: TEI: Work on Ruby proposal and prose draft.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Cleaning up old branches and triaging tickets; more details added to documentation.
1.50 hours: TEI: Stylesheets working group meeting.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Implemented ticket on emphasis styling.
2.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch/MyNDIR: Implemented staticSearch issue #114 (add query string in search param to allow for target page highlighting) in a test branch, with an example JS module that does the highlighting; switched MyNDIR to this branch and added custom JS to handle highlighting even when in hidden popup content.
0.75 hours: Mariage: Implemented new staticSearch highlighting for testing, and removed some obsolete code.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-01-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to work on ruby issue ahead of Council meeting tomorrow.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Prep and interview with prospective WS student.
4.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Discussions with GN of needs for Myths project that will become feature requests; completion of highlight feature work, merged by JT; documentation of that in the dev branch; switching of Mariage and MyNDIR to dev branch and tweaks to CSS and JS in those projects. Discovery of edge case problem when testing with Despatches; rewrote sample JS and implementations in all three projects to solve the problem.

Total: 7.00 hours