Isolation log week 83

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-15 to 2021-11-19 (although I took a vacation day on the 15th because of flooding at home, so this was a 4-day week)

Total: 26.25 hours
G&T -1.75 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Working with UofA folks to try to get XML import into OJS working. Looks like the process is broken for the specific version of OJS that they're running, which is the current version. Looking at ways to work around an SQL constraint violation issue.
3.25 hours: Moses: Integration of new banner image from ECH to site; switch from sorting entries by phonemic collation to orthographic; many fixes and workarounds for spacing issues arising out of original XML.
0.25 hours: Mid-month RA timesheets (all but one received and submitted).
0.50 hours: Endings/Academic: Wrote first half of rough draft of DH 2022 submission.
0.50 hours: Maint: Archived and undeployed three apps from Peach/tomcat-devel: Moses, Lansdowne, and Francotoile. No more of my apps are running on Peach.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting, fix for missing image in documentation, enhancement to process providing candidate links between morphemes in cits with morphemes in reconstructed entries, to create an XSLT stylesheet on the fly to convert confident matches.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-11-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Maint: solving an annoying drive mount problem caused, it turned out, by Docker.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Finding and fixing a bug in rendering out catRef values as classes in the HTML body.
2.00 hours: Endings/Academic: Completed first draft of DH 2022 submission and started filling out reference list and refining.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Chasing up print run; finalizing and publishing vol 28 on the online site; planning for the mailout in the likely absence of KB.
2.00 hours: VIHistory: more analysis of the existing data; correspondence with PD re issues with the current site; discussions and decisions on strategy with GN; research (not fruitful) on possible XML standards for census data encoding.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2021-11-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Endings/VIHistory: More discussions with GN on strategy for mitigating project scale; completed the draft of the DH proposal and circulated it to the Endings team for comments.
2.50 Moses: Working on rendering of large pronunciation table for small-format devices; did a couple of other bug fixes. Got tables working as lists late in the day.

Total: 4.25 hours

Friday 2021-11-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Moses: Final enhancements to pronunciation page; added a beta badge to the build process; tweaks to CSS; built and tested site; published to live site and let SK and ECH know.
1.50 hours: ProD: Registered for ComputeCanada sessions in February; registered for an account (awaiting OK by sponsor); started working through CC documentation.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Long discussion with KSS and PS regarding re-skinning, plans for release, reorganization of content and interface, etc.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Printed labels, built boxes, labelled and stuffed envelopes etc. for shipping of 41 volumes. Still waiting on bubble wrap for the boxes, already ordered. Worked on the OJS ingestion bugs, and ended up creating a version of the file which embeds base64 versions of all the PDFs directly in the file; waiting for JH to test at UofA. Looks like the biggest problem is the href element.

Total: 7.25 hours