Posting hours from isolation log 2022-01-17 to 2022-01-21.
January 21, 2022
January 17, 2022
Isolation log week 90
Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-17 to 2022-01-21
Total: 36.00 hours
G&T: +1.00 hours
Monday 2022-01-17
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC: working on alternate attList tickets.
0.75 hours: Timesheets and setting up hour-tracking for workstudy, since hours are getting low.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Fixing all remaining caps following initial drop-caps. Fixing a couple of other things found along the way, and working with TEH on her task.
3.00 hours: VIHistory: working on merging the official LAC district/subdistrict data with the rather flaky PGSQL data.
Total: 7.00 hours
Tuesday 2022-01-18
0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates.
... need to track back through commits to complete this -- no time on the day.
Total: 7.00 hours
Wednesday 2022-01-19
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Long-overdue desk cleaning.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: integrating German translations provided by users.
1.50 hours: Maint: Working with LW on plans and testing of server migration.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Initial work on poem search page; meeting with AC; general project meeting; completion of drop-cap processing code, which still needs testing before implementation.
1.00 hours: Moses: Discussions on cit comparison diagnostic, and initial XSLT.
Total: 8.00 hours
Thursday 2022-01-20
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: CSDH submission review.
1.00 hours: Moses: Finished the cit diagnostic requested by SK and ECH.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Created setup of poem search page, as long discussed; added lots of additional metadata to enable more filters on that page; processed all drop-caps into new encoding format; added XSLT to handle new format; fixed a bunch of straight quotes in the db and tweaked SQL-to-TEI process to catch and fix more of them as they come in.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and bugfix for borked documentation build, caused by changes to the TEI Stylesheets.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Schema fix per JJ/ALHS.
Total: 7.00 hours
Friday 2022-01-21
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
5.25 hours: DVPP: New search page for poems, with new meta filters; some CSS work on that; new system to handle redirects from retired pages; retired two old search pages; various other bugfixes and metadata updates.
0.25 hours: VIHistory: Discussion with GN about HISCO.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage, schema update, project meeting.
Total: 7.00 hours
January 14, 2022
Posting hours from isolation log 2022-01-10 to 2022-01-14.
January 10, 2022
Isolation log week 89
Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-10 to 2022-01-14
Total: 36.25
G&T hours: +1.25
Monday 2022-01-10
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: With GN, work through virtual host config for webserver2 cluster and identify items to delete for LW configuring webserver3.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC. Completed Stylesheets issue #526.
3.00 hours: VIHistory: More analysis of location table data, questions to PD, discussions with GN re related maps, and XSLT to generate human-readable expanded location descriptions in pre-processing phase.
2.50 hours: DVPP: More work on incidental small-caps, and fixes for other things encountered along the way. There are another 100+ instances of actual caps to fix manually.
Total: 7.25 hours
Tuesday 2022-01-11
0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates and reboots needed.
0.50 hours: More software installs on new machine; some bugs showing up in Wayland.
0.50 hours: Reviewed first submission for DH2022.
3.50 hours: DVPP: More work with TEH on normalization and extraction of incidentals. A lot of new policy to make and enforce.
2.00 hours: BCHT: Prep for and meeting with PR re next phases of project.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Meeting with KSS and discussion of work and prep needed for workstudy student.
Total: 7.50 hours
Wednesday 2022-01-12
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Updates to build process to provide useful highlighting for workstudy student to research places.
0.50 hours: Review of second DH2022 submission.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Meeting with PAB re plan for next release.
0.50 hours: BCHT: Emails with DL and GL about spreadsheet-to-TEI conversion.
4.50 hours: DVPP: New diagnostics, many fixes for existing issues, meeting with AC re release plan.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Ticket check and project meeting.
Total: 7.00 hours
Thursday 2022-01-13
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Moses: Answering requests from SK re diagnostics for citations.
0.50 hours: DVPP/ENG 500: Planning for March sessions of XML encoding, creating XQuery to identify potential poets we might address, and running questions past AC.
0.50 hours: Review of third DH2022 submission.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Framing proposal for rationalizing monarch ids.
0.25 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN re timeline issues.
3.50 hours: DVPP: Adding two new bios and photos, and work on About page; fixes for more incidental capitals; cleanup of some XSLT; added handling for figure descriptions in non-transcription poems in the new rendering; splitting out of incidental versus main style elements.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
Total: 6.75 hours
Friday 2022-01-14
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Maint: Investigating BugAlert service and signing up.
0.75 hours: Timesheet setup for BS moving from grant to WS, and other incoming timesheets.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Set up new keyboard shortcut and tweaked documentation display.
1.00 hours: Pro-D: Investigating Rust for WASM setup and capabilities.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Work on CSS for new poems; reworked XQuery for better results looking for candidate poets for ENG 500; fixed more initial caps issues.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Changes to schema and addition of Schematron to police the marking of incomplete place entries, plus documentation of same; addition of two new search-in categories.
1.50 hours: VIHistory: retrieval of LAC listings of census districts and reformatting of it to make it processable into TEI.
Total: 7.75 hours
Posting hours from isolation log 2022-01-04 to 2022-01-07.
January 5, 2022
Isolation log week 88
Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-04 to 2022-01-07 (4-day week)
Total: 26.75 hours
G&T: -1.25 hours
Tuesday 2022-01-04
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.75 hours: Timesheet gathering and submission.
4.75 hours: Setting up new desktop computer and installing and testing everything required, including migrating old HDD and solving the multi-monitor problem.
Total: 7.00 hours.
Wednesday 2022-01-05
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: More software installs and configuration work on the new desktop.
4.25 hours: DVPP: Build and release of new version of site per AC; setting up new timesheet for NM who is migrating from workstudy to grant-funded; starting documentation of distinctions between incidental and substantive style features. Discussion of all these issues with AC and with TEH, who will be working on the project.
Total: 6.00 hours
Thursday 2022-01-06 (working from home; snow day)
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Timesheet shenanigans, as an RA transitions from WS to grant-funded in the middle of a pay-period, and Google Docs borks a timesheet.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: reviewed pull request from JS on search-in feature and merged; added French caption supplied by CC.
4.00 hours: Working with TEH on figuring out what changes will need to be made to the encoding of poem titles to handle the fact that literal capitals have been transcribed for almost all titles, while capitalization is in fact incidental and will need to be off by default. This is complicated, and we're only just figuring out how hard it's going to be.
0.50 hours: Maint: Testing of Mariage on new web cluster, and discussion with LW on process for migration. I think I understand it better now.
Total: 6.50 hours
Friday 2022-01-07
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Maint: Installing more software required on desktop; failed attempt to install MS Endpoint Defender, which fails because MS has not released required libs for Ubuntu 21.10; reported in detail to the Helpdesk.
1.75 hours: VIHistory: Meeting with GN to look again at locations and discuss structure of output files and header metadata now that we have "search in" function available in staticSearch.
2.50 hours: DVPP: More work on incidental stuff, especially small-caps and other cap-related issues. Updates to TEI metadata to bring Good Words up to date with many db changes.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix for rendering issues in collations; schema updates for lem element; fixes for bad URLs in documentation; team meeting.
Total: 7.25 hours
January 4, 2022
Starting 2022, I'm going to post minutes of weekly (+/-) staff meetings to blog so they're available to signed-in staff members. Previous couple of years minutes are on my Mac in ZoomHcmcMeetings2021.txt and ZoomHcmcMeetings2020.txt
Attending: Stewart Martin Greg Pat
Reporting on Activities
GN:
Home1H diskspace can be decommissioned and rolled into home1t
MH:
new machine needs futzing to work with >1 monitor properly
PS:
?Divider between TEH worth getting or no?
SA:
BCTextBooks upcoming meeting with Pia - will she stick to XML-based process?
Malahat Review meeting with Iain, Lamour, Pat, Stewart upcoming
TEH:
For Tracey: MH 170 poems DVPP separate css inherhent to poem from css due to publisher decision; SA port servitengasse to cover relational db to xml, them build from xml to html etc.
General:
Servers OK, no more security issues
Actions:
SA: Prepare in case we all get sick at same time to shut down office and put up notices.
Following procedure in readme file, updated the site at hcmc.uvic.ca/servitengasse to include people whose "make public" year is 2022. Updated files in both servitengasse and servitendev folders in hcmc account on home1t.
Also updated htaccess files in both build folders to force php version to 7.
Hopefully by next year we'll have replaced the current clunky, half-done-by-hand process with something better.
December 30, 2021
Accounting for 21 hours of leave between Christmas and New Year.
December 17, 2021
Posting hours from isolation log 2021-12-13 to 2021-12-17.