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Isolation log week 38

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-30 to 2020-12-04

Total hours: 38.50

G&T hours: +3.50

Monday 2020-11-30

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers; did this twice, because kernel updates appeared during the day, and I had to work around active builds.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Review proposal for temporal authority names ahead of tomorrow's meeting.
0.25 hours: LEMDO/MoEML: review and triage current tickets assigned to me.
1.00 hours: TEI: Work on Ruby/Japanese proposal, creating some basic examples to work from.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Encoded complete article for volume 29 and rebuilt site.
2.25 hours: LEMDO: Work on QME site style replication.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: two more step 1 procedures implemented in French stemmer in JS and XSLT, with tests.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-12-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Stylesheets working group meeting, working on anchors for egXMLs. 6am start.
1.25 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.50 hours: EyeVocab: Deep dive into repo to figure out what progress is being made; report to RB and US.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Prep for meeting, project meeting, follow-up from meeting.
2.50 hours: ColDesp: Proofing and fixing ready for release tonight/tomorrow.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2020-12-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Admin/Academic: Prep for mock interview with GJ/SR/RS/MD this afternoon.
3.00 hours: ColDesp: Archive release 2.1; Build and push new 2.2 release; test and investigate; identify minor issue with obsolete files from previous builds; reorganize build process and Jenkins job to avoid the problem; rebuild...
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Set up ticket for PS to continue work on QME site.
1.75 hours: Admin/Academic: mock interview.
2.00 hours: Coldesp: Diagnose and fix new build break due to reconfigured build process; once build completed, publish to site, then carefully clean out old unmodified files, folder by folder. Reset edition number, and let team know commits can go ahead.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: finished step 1 of the French stemmer implementations.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2020-12-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Review and comment on plan for QME.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Author's corrections to review, and other fixes for minor typos in a number of articles discovered in the process; responses to author.
5.50 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with JJ and follow-up in planning reorg or resources on home1t, and bugfixes for anthology diagnostics and processing; reorganization of images and fixes to processing to handle this; first part of module to prune unwanted images from lemdo-dev when building anthology; various fixes for things encountered along the way.
0.25 hours: Coldesp: Did some more cleanup on previous edition site litter while waiting for backups.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-12-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: Completed code for more elegant image handling across anthologies.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC, to fix latest build break and finish adding anchors to examples in the Guidelines.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: Retrieving lots of required images from the old QME and DRE sites, and adding them into appropriate locations; fixing a few hundred image links that were pointing out to those sites; reorganization/renaming of some text documents inconsistently named; documentation of how to store and link to images; various other fixes and tweaks.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fix for diagnostic that was too broad, per KL; added CSS class to body for semi-diplomatic transcriptions, ahead of adding actual rules for these documents.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Updates of TODOs, fixes for my tagging last week, and some regex-based auto-tagging of examples; project meeting.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Diagnosing build break due to case error in id.

Total: 8.25 hours

Posting hours from work log for 2020-11-23 to 2020-11-27.

Edition 3.6 of Dr. Kim Blank's widely-admired site Mapping Keats's Progress has been released.

Isolation log week 37

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-23 to 2020-11-27

Total hours: 35.75

G&T hours: +0.75

Monday 2020-11-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Start work on rendering of apparatus where witnesses are correctly identified.
0.25 hours: Keats: Build and publish edition 3.6.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix hundreds of variations of http://*.uvic.ca URLs in various contexts, which need to be https, and implement Schematron rule to constrain.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Get apparatus/witness rendering working correctly.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Tagging abbreviations and forms in one of the Potier MS docs to see what we might be able to speed up.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Figure out and fix gnarly issue with the duplicate-id diagnostic.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Update documentation for installing svn on Macs; add documentation and related
CSS to site build output, and add a link to it.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Start work on centralized respStmt RESP1 collection.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-11-24 (short day, long dental appointment)

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Debugging svn conflict.
5.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix menu appearance; work around JS bug; get content showing in aside menu for non-play pages; work on centralized respStmts, along with long Teams discussion which resulted in shelving that idea in favour of a more limited implementation limited to documentation; discussion and triage of tickets for QME release milestone; fixes for bad links and missing attributes.

Total: 5.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-11-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Mariage: figure out build warning and configure log parser to suppress unwanted report.
3.00 hours: MyNDIR: Tightening up schema and adding Schematron; discussions with PAB re procedures for training; training session.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Discussion/decisions on implementing granular respStmts for documentation only; implementation of necessary schema changes; creation of respStmts and sample pointers; fixes and updates to all downstream processing of documentation files. (Not finished yet.)

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2020-11-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Diagnose overnight build-break and fix original source XML, as well as XSLT edge case that caused the break.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage, fixing build break, prep for meeting.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Create responsibility taxonomy, add prefixDefs, incorporate into schema build process, add respStmts to all our MS transcriptions, test and bugfix; check out shortcuts on Mac, follow up on previous TODOs.
0.25 hours: Maint: Testing new kiwano web cluster machine on HCMC sites.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Meeting on QME release plans; two tickets raised, three tickets completed.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Fix for second build break due to unexpected content in one file.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: Implemented and tested another stemmer step in js and XSLT.
1.00 hours: Wendat project meeting.

Total: 8.25 hours

Friday 2020-11-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to prepare issues for next week's Stylesheets meeting.
2.00 hours: Wendat: New keyboard shortcut, tested on alll OSes with variant keyboards; new Schematron; enquiries about options for dual monitors; bugfix for unwanted spaces in output.
0.50 hours: Maint: Windows updates on my VM, and associated config-wrestling.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Setting up initial QME anthology customization, and beginning work on making it mimic the original site. Lots of work to do here.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Entered author corrections for vol 28 article; published site.

Total: 7.00 hours

Posting hours from work log for 2020-11-16 to 2020-11-20.

Isolation log week 36:

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-16 to 2020-11-20

Total hours: 36.75

G&T hours: +1.75

Monday 2020-11-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Add check on local anthology pages to pre-flight anthology build diagnostics.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Check into new ticket assigned to me on role-counting, and post response.
6.50 hours: LEMDO: Refactor anthology dirs and contents; change css to scss and and build step; create anthology build target and associated files; begin outlining build process; create template files; create build pipeline; add processing for all files (except home page, still missing), but no actual changes in place yet.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-11-17

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Main jenkins failed to install properly, and required some intervention; TEI jenkins had no problems.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Started putting together transition plan for a future move to another institution; shared with HT and SA for comments.
0.25 hours: EyeVocab: Meeting arrangement, and recap of correspondence so far.
1.25 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
1.25 hours: MoEML Project meeting.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Got the anthology basically building, using the template, renaming files and fixing links appropriately.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-11-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Overnight email on ColDesp, LEMDO etc.
4.00 hours: EyeVocab: Building a preliminary data-model for the item bank, in preparation for meeting with UCD team; Zoom meeting; subsequent discussions, revisions to model, reading through existing codebase, etc.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: Get MoMS anthology building; write override CSS to make it palatable to look at and test the process; add anthology building to the main build.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2020-11-19

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Initial troubleshooting of certbot renewal problem, still to be resolved, on teijenkins.
0.25 hours: TEI: Caught the last bit of the TEI Members Meeting.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions on anthologies and a fix to the old QME site.
0.75 hours: EyeVocab: More work on item bank data model; results posted to Slack channel.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Did some simple metrics on progress ahead of today's meeting.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: More work on customization of moms, some work on errors and problems in the main lemdo-dev build, and updates to documentation on anthologies.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 6.75 hours

Friday 2020-11-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Diagnosing and reporting XSS bugs in MS Teams.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to work on calendar-related ticket, and prepare for Stylesheets Group meeting in a couple of weeks.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Tagging a particularly gnarly review with many style errors to fix; fixing a bug in footnote handling in HTML output; publishing new version of the site incorporating changes.
3.00 hours: MoEML/LEMDO: Planning a migration to centralized respStmts to simplify resp assignment and make it more granular (detailed discussions in Teams); testing/investigation of the likely scale of work and consequences; implementation of a new lew: prefix for old-style unexplained witnesses in LEMDO collations; implementation of handling for those changes.

Total: 7.50 hours

Posting hours from work log for 2020-11-09 to 2020-11-13.

Isolation log week 35:

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-09 to 2020-11-13 (4-day week, Wed is holiday)

Total hours: 29.25

G&T hours: +1.25

Monday 2020-11-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: LEMDO: implementing new menus for lemdo-dev; project meeting with interface designers; discussion with JJ.
1.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: more steps and tests on French stemmers, including a refactoring to reduce calculations.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Preprocess next vol 28 article; set up XML file; encode first half of bibliography.

Total: 6.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-11-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: fix error in step1f of stemmer with help from OB and MP.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Finish encoding bibliography for latest vol 28 article, along with introduction.
1.50 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting, getting familiar with Teams, raising, completing and closing simple tickets.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fix for spacing issue with blockquotes; proved more complicated than it should have been.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Fixing, testing and re-fixing script for PS so that it actually does work on Macs. Discussion with JJ about the mass of media files on iseadmin, and what we should do with them; Debugging and fixes for broken http links to images on ise site.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: implemented steps 1g and 1h in stemmers, with tests.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2020-11-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Add new doc taxonomy category for lemdo-dev anthology; rebuild schema.
0.50 hours: Maint: Discussion with GN about site-level stats and requirements; testing of current analytics.
0.25 hours: GRS/Greek: Check and fix typos in Greek exercise per MN.
1.50 hours: TEI: Infrastructure Group meeting.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Prep for meeting this afternoon; orking on keystroke shortcut issues on Mac w/French Canadian keyboard; implementation of dynamic keypad for search page on site.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Finished encoding the next article for vol 28 and posted it for proofing.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 8.25 hours

Friday 2020-11-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Maint: test server/db sites and report problem with cluster migration.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to work on altIdent/FPI ticket.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Refactor anthology diagnostics, and build diagnostics for all anthologies into main build process.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: Implement another stage in the French stemmer, with tests.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Debug and work around a build-breaking validation problem caused by the hierarchy rewrite during the generation of Original XML; debugging of a subsequent problem involving figures inside stage directions, discussion and fix.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Preliminary work on calculating and storing fragment ids for KWIC strings so that we can provide links to specific locations in the document (issue #88).
0.50 hours: Move of Hot Potatoes User group from Yahoo to Google Groups.

Total: 7 hours

Posting hours from work log for 2020-11-02 to 2020-11-06.

Isolation log week 34:

Work done from home and in the office 2020-11-02 to 2020-11-06

Week 34 total hours: 36.25

G&T hours: +1.25

Monday 2020-11-02

2.00 hours: Presentation at UBC conference session (Saturday).
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.00 hours: Wendat: Query to GR on Latin abbr; new sections in documentation on document structure, lists/tables, names inside Wendat forms, and other topics; updates to schema to support dictionary stuff in tables; add RNG and Schematron validation into the build process; other fixes.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Preliminary work on French stemmer.
0.50 hours: ISE/QME: Fix broken links and URLs on the old site per JJ. Normalized all bases to qme.uvic.ca.

Total: 7.25 hours.

Tuesday 2020-11-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Stylesheets Working Group meeting.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket discussion with user re changing attribute name.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Project meeting; bugfix for missing favicon.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Discussions with JJ and PS re project structure, lemdo-dev vs lemdo vs redesign; fixes to CSS; meeting with JJ; starting on reorganization of project structure and build process.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: diagnosis of user-reported issue re diacritic-stripping pseudo-stemmer.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Remove hard-coded CSS files and add build target into build process; remove other unwanted files; Q to PS about some scss source files.

Total: 8.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-11-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Set up and test MS Teams; add instructions to Teams ticket on link-checking.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Dig out XML presentations and customize for today.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Fixes for various rendering issues, and reorganization of lemdo-dev CSS.
2.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More work on implementation of French stemmer and test suites for it.
0.75 hours: MyNDIR: Intro to XML presentation/discussion.
1.00 hours: Endings: Project meeting re symposium.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More work on French stemmers.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2020-11-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Endings: Discussion with Library folks about terms and conditions for accession, and the need for us to cover that in our Endings recommendations.
1.00 hours: Discussion with GN about migration of teijenkins and plan for further migrations, as well as GitLab deployment.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Fixes for HTML rendering of listings/TOC tables; Script to enable PS to work easily on CSS without building everything locally; much time wasted wrestling with broken build problem due to build target not having fully-explicit file paths; more time wasted rolling back inadvertent reversions in build file and XSLT committed by someone working on other stuff.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting
0.75 hours: LEMDO: More efforts to fix broken build.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-11-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Work with SB on mapping the various language parameters through the Guidelines build process, to prepare for internationalization work.
2.00 hours: GERU: Prep, meeting with SA, US and RB on the UC Davis application, subsequent discussion.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions on programming roles, avoidance of build breaks, etc.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More progress with the two French stemmer implementations.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Styles for egXML, tweaks to table layout.

Total: 6.50 hours