Posting hours from work log for 2020-10-26 to 2020-10-30.
October 30, 2020
October 26, 2020
Isolation log week 33:
Work done from home and in the office 2020-10-26 to 2020-10-30
Week 33 total hours: 36.00
G&T hours: +1.00
Monday 2020-10-26
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Endings/Graves: Analyze current status, do test build, lay out options for full staticization and ask for input from Endings folks.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Respond to request to italicize terms from JJ and KL; find previous decision to unitalicize them commented in code; reverse it after unsuccessful search for documentation of rationale.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Add checking of pre-built HTML pages in products/lemdo-dev to anthology pre-flight checks. This is now essentially functional.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket discussion on implementation of result sorting and diacritic-stripping.
2.50 hours: Endings/Graves: Add config components required for staticSearch; add, test and validate meta elements required for static search filters; add retrieval code for staticSearch codebase; add search page shell; test and tweak.
Total: 6.00 hours
Tuesday 2020-10-27
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: TEI: Browse ticket updates resulting from Council meeting.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Prep for today's meeting.
1.25 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
4.50 hours: Endings/Graves: Reorganized the project code for fully static functionality; added and tested staticSearch; obsoleted old code; fixed dozens of encoding errors revealed by staticSearch; added new home page and browse page; updated documentation. Site is basically functional now, but some cosmetic issues remain.
Total: 7.75 hours
Wednesday 2020-10-28
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
7.00 hours: Endings/Graves: Create new home page; finish documentation of project history; fix dozens of errors in original source and in rendering; refine search descriptor rendering for better sorting; add edition and svn info in footer; clean out more obsolete code; rewrite documentation sections on building the site; cosmetic changes.
Total: 7.25 hours
Thursday 2020-10-29
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Act on or do prep for some of the TODOs on the agenda for today.
0.50 hours: Endings/Graves: Test on mobile, and typo fix.
3.25 hours: Wendat: Research on appropriate char for MS symbol; implementation of changes to encoding practice re word-final j; demo encoding + XSLT/CSS for layout tables for list/tabular data in MSS; work on Oxygen author-mode CSS for supporting chars written above the line and tables.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Create branch for issue #83 (adding logo and link to search page) and do first implementation, using inline SVG to avoid dependencies.
1.50 hours: Endings/Graves: More tweaks and bug fixes based on feedback; tidying up the codebase and documenting the folder structure.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up.
Total: 8.00 hours
Friday 2020-10-30
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to prepare for Stylesheets Working Group meeting on Tuesday.
0.75 hours: ColDesp: Found lots of CSS rulesets that were unmatched because of changes to HTML structure; changed selectors accordingly, and tweaked some values.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Addition of transformation scenario for anthology documents in Oxygen; analysis of lemdo-dev site build process and current outputs; long discussion with PS on how to proceed and on general programming principles; decision to fix lemdo-dev before working on anthologies; creation of basic programming principles document, outlining naming conventions, pointing rules, good practices and so on.
0.25 hours: Wendat: fix for more final js; check on encoded tables.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Tweak to logo rendering; testing on various browsers.
Total: 7.00 hours
October 23, 2020
Posting hours from work log for 2020-10-19 to 2020-10-23.
October 19, 2020
Isolation log week 32:
Work done from home and in the office 2020-10-19 to 2020-10-23
Week 32 total hours: 37.25
G&T hours: +2.25
Monday 2020-10-19
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Run link harvester, fix a stack of broken links, create a ticket for some needing more careful attention.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Assemble, complete and submit the latest batch of timesheets. Debug a build problem caused by changes to the way Chart.js is released; change the build process to retrieve it from another location.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Trying out various configurations of an anthology config file, and settling on one; beginning detailed documentation of how the anthology build process should work; questions and discussion on this.
0.25 hours: Keats: A little archaeology to discover what happened to the work on building a modern map of Keats locations, suing SP's spreadsheet data. Answer: it's waiting on a formal project plan to go to the HCMC committee.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Working on poem metadata rendering, and setting up caption abstraction.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Work on schema validation for anthology files; discussion of anthology inclusion and licensing; looking at taxonomies, which need a bit of work.
Total: 7.25 hours
Tuesday 2020-10-20
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
3.00 hours: MoEML: Fixing more bad links from the link checker; long project meeting.
2.00 hours: EyeVocab: Emailing with PIs and programmer as we gradually try to nail down a specification; cloning, building, and testing the beta app.
1.00 hours: DVPP: More work on metadata rendering for reader poem view.
Total: 7.25 hours
Wednesday 2020-10-21
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Fix build break caused by my refactoring yesterday. This took two shots.
0.25 hours: MoEML: More work on broken links.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: A bit of discussion followed by completion of the first draft of an outline of the proposed anthology build process. Addition of a prefixDef to support this. Fixing a build break and figuring out why a documentation page was missing.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Replace tag-based superscripting of ordinal o and a with Unicode chars; make old version invalid; write Schematron QuickFix to replace it; inform team and ask for testing; consultation with JQ on her transcription, testing and debugging issue with xpr file.
1.00 hours: Maint: Investigation of KeepassXC and Yubikey functionality; testing of HMAC-SHA1 setup of Yubikey.
2.00 hours: DVPP: More refactoring and work on metadata panel display for reader view of poem.
Total: 7.50 hours
Thursday 2020-10-22
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Fix diagnostics bug reported by KAF; adding more metadata processing templates; discussion re sudden work cessation due to PI leave.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Discussing, tweaking, finalizing and practising presentation for UBC conference with JT.
2.75 hours: LEMDO: Revisions to anthology build process description; schema tweaks for licence element to support anthologizing; outline of the diagnostics checks pre-build; framework of the diagnostics module that will run those checks and generate a report.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Project meeting, update TODOs for next week based on meeting.
Total: 7.75 hours
Friday 2020-10-23
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB; looking through Stylesheet tickets, and discussion of release last week.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Find and fix Schematron bug preventing validation of BS's text.
0.25 hours: Maint: Updated OS on old laptop for testing.
5.00 hours: LEMDO: Diagnosed and fixed build break bug; fixed a few dozen errors in QME texts also breaking build; wrote anthology pre-flight check module and tested it; updated various links to use doc: instead of ldt:.
0.50 hours: MoEML: More work on link-checking and fixing.
Total: 7.50 hours
October 18, 2020
Dr. Kim Blank's site Mapping Keats's Progress: a Critical Chronology, which "has received plaudits and unsolicited praise from respected colleagues," (Suzie Grogan) has progressed to edition 3.5. This project is a collaboration with HCMC and is a fully Endings-compliant project.
October 16, 2020
Posting hours from work log for 2020-10-13 to 2020-10-16.
October 14, 2020
Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda have released the first production version of their staticSearch tool, one of the key products from Project Endings.
October 13, 2020
Isolation log week 31:
Work done from home and in the office 2020-10-13 to 2020-10-16 (4-day week)
Week 31 total hours: 27.25
G&T hours: -0.75
Tuesday 2020-10-13
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Fix DVPP build problem.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Fix documentation issue.
1.50 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting; update billboard rotator on HCMC site to replace older conference with MyNDIR; update current project list.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Follow-up with Oxygen team on Mac bug we're struggling with. No resolution yet.
0.50 hours: Endings: Fighting with Zoom in preparation for upcoming presentation, to determine what features actually work properly on Linux.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting; checking into status of lemdo-data.xpr; removing links to generic Shakespeare essay, which is now no longer planned for print editions; various discussions on the anthology build process; beginning of an anthology build file.
0.50 hours: ColDesp/Endings/staticSearch: Implementation of a sort key for desc filters in ColDesp, to be used as test data for development of sort key feature in staticSearch.
Total: 6.75 hours.
Wednesday 2020-10-14
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Debugging validation issue for KL.
0.25 hours: Hot Potatoes: Investigating alternative options to replace long-standing Yahoo group for tech support.
0.25 hours; MyNDIR: Install GIMP on Jonagold for RAs to edit images.
1.75 hours: DVPP: Update site planning document; add hidden text spans for rhyme-schemes to enable possible later search page focused on rhyme; outline rendering plans and issues for poems for0.25 hours PS.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Eliminate problematic diagnostic per JJ.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Implement sort key per issue #58, test in Keats project, initiate larger test in ColDesp, and create pull request.
3.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Complete documentation changes for release; rename master branch to main; merge dev into main; build and test; tag and release; rebuild documentation and push to Endings site; add announcements in various places.
Total: 7.00 hours
Thursday 2020-10-15
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Maint: Dealing with vulnerability report on one of the servers; researching background and taking remedial action.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Work with PS on ideas for poem rendering.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Preparation for meeting today; checking usage of choice elements and possibility of auto-transforming them (not actually practical).
0.75 hours: Maint: Discussion on HCMC security issues.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Bump version number for sS; tweak Endings site pages to fix invalidities and remove RSS feed no longer maintained; add new info re sS to Endings site; discussion with GN on better new-user documentation for sS.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: a bit of ticket triage, and fixes to an invalid file plaguing the build for a few days.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
Total: 6.75 hours
Friday 2020-10-16
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: With SB, do release of point-version of TEI Stylesheets with bugfix, following and testing the accuracy of TCW22; fixed a couple of errors in a shell script during the process.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Add new ant quickValidateSource convenience target, along with documentation; removed many instances of legacy hard-coded schema links from files.
0.25 hours: Keats: Switch to new main branch of staticSearch; build and test.
0.75 hours: ColDesp: Switch to new main branch of staticSearch; build and test; tweak layout/display of form controls.
0.50 hours: Maint: Cleaning up old builds on Jenkins.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Refinements to poem pre-processing step; implementation of aria-compliant tabbed interface for switching between poem views; discussions with AC and KF about current work plans; processing FMN proofed poems to TEI; switching staticSearch to new main branch.
Total: 6.75 hours
October 7, 2020
I converted the oral history mp3 files to m4a using ffmpeg:
for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vn -ar 11025 -c:v aac "${i%.*}.m4a"; done
October 5, 2020
Isolation log week 30:
Work done from home and in the office 2020-10-05 to 2020-10-09
Week 30 total hours: 35.00
G&T hours: 0
Monday 2020-10-05
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.50 hours: MoEML: Re-running link checking; fixing several dozen broken links, investigating pattern changes for 700 ODNB links, ticket triage.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Set up next article for vol 28; encoded first bibliography and much of the second; pre-processed titles etc. in content; raised some questions with HT.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Working on validation of pre-processed poems, modified schema slightly, and added generation of facsimile element where missing; discovered a systematic error in page referencing which is apparently fixed in db but persists in some XML poems, some still to be fixed.
Total: 7.25 hours
Tuesday 2020-10-06
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Stylesheets Working Group meeting (from 6am).
1.50 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Finalizing PDF of presentation for submission to UBC folks; wrestling with awful font handling issues in LO Impress.
2.25 hours: Scancan: More biblio encoding for vol 18 article; refined and extended the auto-tagging tool to handle more edge cases properly.
Total: 7.75 hours
Wednesday 2020-10-07
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Quick proof of long biblio; added two Schematron rules to catch things found; applied those globally and fixed errors in existing articles.
1.00 hours: GERU: With SA, work on data modelling for EyeVocab project. More Qs to US.
0.25 hours: Scancan: more preprocessing and global fixes for vol 28 article, and test-encoding of one para.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Handle Asana ticket, and finish making individual diagnostics linkable.
0.25 hours: Maint: Review VM migration document from sysadmin, discuss with GN.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Add two more examples with images to the complex encoding documentation; check in with RAs, book lab time for one.
0.50 hours: TEI: During Wendat work, found a bug in TEI Stylesheets; raised an issue, created a branch with a fix, and made a pull request.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Set up XSLT file for creating reader view HTML of poems; add build task; test setup. Processing remains to be written.
Total: 5.75 hours
Thursday 2020-10-08
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Encoding more content for vol 28.
1.75 hours: MoEML: Processing another 200 link checks, fixing links, raising a couple of tickets, proposing a policy for link rot cases.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Tech support for remote work.
2.50 hours: Endings: Working on poster for Paris conference with CC and MH.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up.
Total: 7.50 hours
Friday 2020-10-09
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Debug and fix build break; update Saxon version.
1.50 hours: TEI: With SB, preparing for interim Stylesheets release next week, and reporting a release script bug and possible solution.
2.00 hours: ProD: Watching a couple of Declarative Amsterdam presentations; working through XForms tutorial.
0.50 hours: GRS: Fixes to errors in two Greek exercises per MN; update to source file locations in Masher files for site.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Finished first pass at encoding vol 28 article; republished site to include it, although Qs remain outstanding.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Looking at options for encoding Wyandot vs Wendat variants, and reporting with questions to ML. Note to self: this regex finds the most obvious instances in Potier 1751: ([^\s<>]+)<choice><seg>h</seg><seg rendition="rnd:upover">r</seg></choice>(([^\s<>]*)|($))
0.25 hours: MoEML: Review new diagnostics template by LS; tweaks to make checklink output more controllable and configurable; ran some link checks.
Total: 6.75 hours.