MDH: Isolation log week 3
Isolation log week 3:
Work done from home 2020-03-30 to 2020-04-03.
Week 3 total hours: 37
G & T hours +2
Monday 2020-03-30
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, reboot them, test, check for plugin updates, remove old kernels.
0.25 hours: Framing and posting Stackoverflow question on Xelatex not finding fonts.
1.25 hours: Scancan: Document setup, metadata, first para and bibliography for Barreiro article.
1.75 hours: Scancan: Finish Barreiro article; add Schematron to control spaces, and fix fallout in prior articles; rebuild site; update eXist instance; inform editor of new article ready for proofing.
2.00 hours: DVPP: refresh db files in repo, implement system for encoding and rendering marginal braces on linegroups, test, document, and report to the team.
1.50 hours: DVPP: fix JS aligning column breaks, add new taxonomy value, set up new respStmt for database metadata contributors as part of the TEI generation process and test, answer a couple of queries from RAs.
1.00 hours: Based on responses to Stackoverflow question, rewriting, debugging and testing main font setting (Vollkorn), this time successfully.
Total: 8.00 hours.
Tuesday 2020-03-31
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates.
1.50 hours: TEI Stylesheets working group meeting (training for new Council members, 6am - 7.30).
1.00 hours: Working through TEI tickets assigned to me, and closing some.
1.00 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans call.
1.00 hours: Despatches: site switch to static (thanks sysadmin), testing, and subsequent follow-up emails to project team dealing with archiving etc.
0.50 hours: Debug validation problem in MoEML; teach DVPP encoders how to retrieve an old version of a file to find something that got inadvertently deleted.
3.00 hours: Getting started on MyNDIR build: parameterizing build process for faster testing; adding mechanisms for determining edition info, svn rev, build date and so on; adding formal citation to footer; adding lots of documentation; tidying up build files and XSLT.
0.50 hours: Regular email churn.
Total: 7.25 hours.
Wednesday 2020-04-01
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates, clean out some old builds taking up space.
0.25 hours: LEMDO PDF rendering: Solved mysterious spacing problem with quotation marks.
3.00 hours: LEMDO PDF rendering: Secondary fonts now finally working, after hours of trial and error and Googling; one lacks an italic face so will have to be replaced, so waiting for response from AG. Multiple tweaks to spacing and rendering.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Added handling for drop-caps in head and paragraph elements, alongside existing handling in lines.
0.25 hours: Tech support for PAB trying to checkout the MyNDIR repo on Windows 10.
0.25 hours: LEMDO PDF rendering: remove Mukta font per AG, and re-style with Josefin Sans.
2.00 hours: MyNDIR: Adding staticSearch metadata into HTML pages; enhancing metadata labels in names.xml to use in staticSearch; tech support for PAB; adding HTML validation into build process; expanding build process to include all steps by default.
Total: 7.00 hours.
Thursday 2020-04-02
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates.
0.75 hours: LEMDO print build: font/formatting for running headers; question about formatting of two-part titles and implications.
0.50 hours: Scancan: initial setup and metadata for Vanherpen vol 28 article. Query to HT about italicization.
1.00 hours: LEMDO project Skype meeting.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: emails with PAB re error on site, plan for menus, and Jenkins build failure.
1.50 hours: TEI Infrastructure Group meeting on Skype; setting up UptimeRobot monitoring/reporting to the group for TEI sites, and follow-up emails.
0.50 hours: Keats: build, test, and release new edition of site (2.8) per KB.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting in Blue Jeans.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Encoded first half of bibliography in vol 28 article; fixed loose Schematron rule.
0.50 hours: Admin/emails (gathering timesheets, tech support, TEI, LEMDO).
Total: 7.00 hours.
Friday 2020-04-03
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates.
0.25 hours: Check, "sign", and submit timesheets for Workstudy and DVPP RAs.
0.25 hours: Correspondence with SK about clipart sources for the Hul'q'umi'num' site and rights to use images elsewhere.
1.00 hours: Weekly meeting with SB to triage tickets to be handled by the TEI Stylesheets Group on Tuesday.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Add finalized contents list to Print document; rewrite handling of headings to accommodate mysterious absence of headings for acts and unpredictable levels of nesting in composite document; add templates to import graphics; investigate/report on best approach to handling genealogy graphic for H5; and various other fixes and email discussions.
0.25 hours: Moses: Figure out how to build dictionary PDF locally, build and commit.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Correspondence on standards and procedures for graphics split across page-spreads in the print volume.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Set up print build file for AYL; update Othello print build file; generate latest PDFs for all three and post for comments.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Dump latest db on server, run admin build task to integrate, run refresh of TEI metadata for Chambers 1890.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Fix tagging of foreign epithet in name; make Schematron rule more nuanced.
Total: 8.0 hours.