Isolation log week 84

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-22 to 2021-11-26

Total: 37.75
G&T: + 2.75 hours

Monday 2021-11-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to prepare for Stylesheets Working Group meetings.
1.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting and emails out to contributors.
0.25 hours: Endings: Initial attempt to submit proposal for DH 2022, but had to send Qs on submission process to DH.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Discussion with KSS of latest updates; fix to typo.
1.00 hours: Maint/ProD: Initial testing and reading documentation for Compute Canada resources now account is active.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Beginning prep work for new rendering of poems; identifying issues with pb / page-image correspondence.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Maint/ProD: More wrestling with Compute Canada setup to see if we can get it building DVPP.
1.50 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.25 hours: Endings/DH 2022: Reformatted GN's and my submission for the conference to use end notes, and submitted after getting response on questions from yesterday.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Packaging boxes for shipping; contacting Distribution for shipping instructions.
0.75 hours: Moses: Figuring out how the password protection got deleted from the live site, adding it back, and fixing the rsync that nuked it.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Restructuring splash page and footer content per PS's redesign.
1.25 hours: DVPP: Fixing mismatches between pb tags and page-image graphics, in discussion with AC and KF.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Enhancements to morpheme matching table per ML; project meeting; file-splitting and other tasks arising out of meeting.

Total: 8.00 hours

Wednesday 2021-11-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Maint: Throughout the day, testing and refining approaches to running builds on Compute Canada. Built a new version of ant-contrib from a GitHub fork of the original codebase and included it into DVPP explicitly; that seems to be working.
0.75 hours: Wendat: More tweaks to the morpheme-matching process per request from ML.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Discussions on various anomalies; new diagnostic to catch new decade-years poems that need transcribing; did OCR for the one of these to emerge so far; various rewrites of the build process to help with Compute Canada testing.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Fix for build break; addition of new favicons and other tweaks to build process; replaced VNU with a current version.
1.50 hours: Graves: Meeting with Lib folks to plan migration; tweaks to site build to remove Google search and bump edition; rebuild and publication of new site version; archive posted for Library to take and deploy when they're ready.

Total: 6.50 hours

Thursday 2021-11-25 (working from home)

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: DVPP: Opened discussion on how best to find candidate encoding files that have incidental CSS that will need to be marked distinctly. Rewrote build process for Compute Canada scenario to include some parallelism into it; there's not much of that we can do, but testing to see if that will reduce the build time. Ran builds locally and on work desktop with and without parallel sections.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Re-engaging with OJS ingestion process, looked at feedback from JH re attempted ingestion last week and rewrote migration build to add incremented numeric ids where suggested. Referred back to JH for another test.
0.75 hours: VIHistory: Added another table to the stats/diagnostics process showing what fields exist in which census sets, so we can set about mapping between them.
1.25 hours: TEI: Stylesheets WG meeting, fixed issue #515.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Meeting with ML to discuss layout of entries in output dictionary; notes in Teams.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: Meeting and long discussion re facsimiles and facsimile viewer plan. Various other issues came up, and tickets have been raised.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2021-11-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Talking to distribution about how to ship our packages; two new rewrites of the ingestion code in an attempt to get around SQL errors in the OJS ingester.
LEMDO: 1.00 hours: Implemented ticket on milestone/@unit and associated Schematron; fixed fallout invalidities.
MoEML: 1.25 hours: Project meeting.
DVPP/Maint: 4.00 hours: Work on detecting duplicate titles to find possible duplicate entries; more testing and discussion with Compute Canada help regarding optimizing builds (no joy really); planning CSS changes; testing dbs on new MySQL node prior to migration.

Total: 8.00