Posting hours from isolation log 2021-09-27 to 2021-10-01.
Isolation log week 77
Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-27 to 2021-10-01 (4-day week, 2021-09-30 stat)
Total: 29.75 hours
G&T: + 1.75 hours
Monday 2021-09-27
0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates required cautious testing.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Refreshed TEI metadata for two periodicals; fixed the schema build process to take account of TEI Stylesheets changes.
0.25 hours: TEI: Ticket triage on Oxygen TEI repo.
1.50 hours: Scancan: First batch of proofing corrections for vol 28.
1.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch, Keats, BreezeMap, MyNDIR, Mariage, ColDesp: Fix for schema build process.
1.25 hours: BreezeMap: Implemented issues 43 and 44 (timelineChange custom event generation; not element support in place element).
1.75 hours: Moses: Finished implementing the persName purging step for the public build process; checked results and raised a couple of queries with SK and ECH; tweaked CSS for tab control.
0.25 hours: BCHT: Updated build process for TEI changes, and fixed a bug in documentation build.
Total: 7.25 hours
Tuesday 2021-09-28
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.50 hours: MyNDIR: Diagnosing build break, discovered major issues with bibliography encoding and rendering, and spent some time fixing encoding and rewriting rendering code.
1.75 hours: Moses: Incorporated sorting based on Java collation; implemented user views for basic and learner; fixed a couple of bugs.
0.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting, and completion of one more feedback package.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Met with HT to discuss latest corrections; did corrections for first main article.
0.50 hours: Mariage: Preparations for non-beta release (making beta badge dependent on version string, and test-building).
Total: 8.50 hours
Wednesday 2021-09-29
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: Scancan: One more article proofing changes done; fix to auto-encoding algorithm and Schematron rule to prevent a systematic missing comma; other tweaks to other articles per discussion with HT.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Refreshed metadata in three periodicals; meeting with AC; general team meeting to discuss poem rendering issues.
1.50 hours: Moses: Rewrite of listings page generation to move away from slow-rendering tables an over to lists. Rendering of item status colours. Final bits of user-view storage and retrieval. Beginning of JS rewrite for item retrieval in the new listings view.
1.00 hours: Mariage: Running of the first few link-checking processes and report to CC; a couple of queries re upcoming release.
0.25 hours: BreezeMap: Feature discussions with GN and fix for one build bug.
0.50 hours: CGWP: Re-learning and examining db ingestion code written in 2018/2019 with GN.
Total: 7.75 hours
Friday 2021-10-01
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to work on TEI tickets related to Schematron.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Did proofing corrections on two more vol 28 articles, and built/published latest to site.
2.00 hours: Moses: Finished rewrite of page layouts to use lists instead of tables, and then rewrote JS and CSS to handle nested item retrieval/display.
0.75 hours: BCHT: Discussions with DL and GL on schema build process, svn conflicts, and diagnostics plan.
Total: 6.25 hours
0.25 hours: Admin
Posting hours from isolation log 2021-09-20 to 2021-09-24.
Isolation log week 76
Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-20 to 2021-09-24
Total: 36.50 hours
G&T hours: +1.50
Monday 2021-09-20
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Tweaks to vol 28 article per HT and author.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Rebuilt TEI metadata for three periodicals; corrected problematic straight quotes in 20 person entries in the database.
1.50 hours: BCHT: Added site footer with edition info, SSHRC logo and basic styling, edition file, svn info retrieval, and pre-release version warning badge.
4.00 hours: Moses: Creating compilation PIs for building word-lists and gloss-lists, and fixing a few minor issues in original XML generation.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: With NC, finalizing removal of @n attributes from categories and dealing with fallout.
Total: 7.25 hours
Tuesday 2021-09-21
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Find and fix build break issue.
2.00 hours: Moses: Various fixes to HTML build, along with a range of other fixes to Unicode character issues in the underlying data, revealed by the HTML validator. Added a Schematron rule to prevent nested ref elements.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: A catalogue of XSLT fixes to handle the removal of @n on the taxonomy and category elements.
2.00 hours: Wendat: New attribute from taxonomy; Schematron constraint for it; rewrite of stats generation code to add tracking for reconstructed entries; new reconstruction file; project meeting.
0.75 hours: MyNDIR: Meeting with PAB and SDK; fix to XSLT bug, and discussion of how to represent illustrators known only by their monograms.
Total: 7.00 hours
Wednesday 2021-09-22
0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates required careful testing and reboots.
1.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: Meeting with JJ to finalize responses to first submission.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Fixes for a couple of diagnostics issues, and creation of a new documentation page on encoding redirects, ready for testing by NV and ML.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Discussions about November release and changes required for it; triggered fresh build to get staticSearch updates and build failed; updated Saxon; waiting to see if build fails again.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Arranging to merge a split MS; added a new diagnostic per ML.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Meeting with AS and follow-up on ENG500.
1.50 hours: Moses: Added Schematron to catch orphaned combining diacritics and inadvertent PUA characters; re-organized CSS as SCSS build for PS; began work on JS interactivity layer.
Total: 8.00 hours
Thursday 2021-09-23
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: TEI: Two more reviews for upcoming conference. Testing of one more schema rule from TCW 32; Stylesheets working group meeting.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Merging three fragments of MS Potier 1751 that were split out for multiple encoders to work on them.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting, ticket triage.
0.75 hours: ColDesp/Endings/staticSearch: Debugging of what is apparently a new staticSearch issue triggered by ColDesp, which is the only project which has multiple feature/typeahead controls.
1.25 hours: Endings/DHQ: Working on feedback for authors with JJ.
1.50 hours: Moses: Basic JS retrieval and display now working, but lots of minor issues to work out.
Total: 7.25 hours
Friday 2021-09-24
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: TEI: Answering Slack questions about pull request.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Building and testing new schema elements for encoding citations; fix for hyph rendering in reconstructed forms.
3.25 hours: Moses: More progress on building static application, fixes for fonts, JS work, etc.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Lots of minor tweaks to layout; fix for missing data in maps pages; team meeting to discuss re-launch.
Total: 7.00 hours
Posting hours from isolation log 2021-09-13 to 2021-09-17
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Isolation log week 75
Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-13 to 2021-09-17
Total: 36.00 hours
G&T hours: +1.0
Monday 2021-09-13
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: Read/annotate latest incoming article.
3.00 hours: Moses: More work on original XML generated content, as precursor input to the HTML generation. Removed old Schematron validation because new build is doing it better; added static build to site; got contributor list generation working; wrote all required templates to handle current content except for entries.
0.25 hours: BCHT: Fix for invalid file.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Fix for broken id; implementation of the remaining gnarly component of localCit referencing, which will surely slow the build, but there's no alternative. Tweaked various other bits and pieces in the process.
Total: 7.00 hours
Tuesday 2021-09-14
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Checking results from yesterday's work; figuring out a fix for scroll-offset on inline anchor targets.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Project meeting and follow-up.
0.75 hours: Maint: Working on ant/exec issue with GN. No resolution yet.
1.50 hours: Moses: More work on output templates and rendering of standard pages.
2.50 hours: Wendat: More work on rendering of proofing view; meeting with ML and progress with reconstruction schema.
Total: 8.00 hours
Wednesday 2021-09-15
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Figure out obscure build break, and add Schematron to avoid it.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Clarify vague bits in my documentation on running apparatus linking process.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Update db files, update TEI metadata in 3 periodicals, fix two bad hash tags, point out issues with scroll-to-text-fragment URL in db to AC.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Set up new WS timesheet for CBR, contacted BS about possibility for remaining WS hours, and in the process did Windows patches.
1.50 hours: Maint: More testing to figure out how to get ant working on the HCMC lab build. No solution yet, but some progress.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Meeting with AC, and follow-up work on user permissions for repo and server.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Brief meeting with PB.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Building some diagnostics into the reconstruction rendering, and progress with generic diagnostics.
Total: 8.00 hours
Thursday 2021-09-16
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Changes to schema and construction of a collection of instance files for reconstruction work.
0.50 hours: Timesheets for workstudy and DVPP, hour tracking for Wendat.
1.00 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN and raising of various tickets to support whaling project.
0.50 hours: Academic: First review of submission for TEI conference.
2.50 hours: Scancan: Extensive revisions to vol 28 article, and correspondence with author/editor; rebuild and publication of site.
0.75 hours: Endings/DHQ: Responses and discussions of JT's final edit of DHQ paper; resulting changes and other potential changes to Principles.
Total: 6.00 hours
Friday 2021-09-17
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to work on Stylesheets tickets. Fixed an issue and raised a pull request.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Tweaks to rendering of reconstructions, discussions on schema.
2.75 hours: Moses: First pass at rendering entries, not yet building successfully.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Phone discussion with AC on possible collaborations with external encoders,
1.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.
Total: 7.00 hours
Posting hours from isolation log 2021-09-07 to 2021-09-10 (4-day week).
Isolation log week 74
Work done from home and in the office 2021-09-07 to 2021-09-10 (4-day week)
Total: 19.25 hours
G&T: + 1.25 hours
Tuesday 2021-09-07
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Mariage: Added Schematron rule from other projects, enhanced over the weekend, to check table cell counts at the XML level.
1.00 hours: BCHT: Tweaks to build process to remove surplus documentation file; build break diagnosis and fix; other build process cleanup work.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Rebuild of metadata in three periodicals, to eliminate some diagnostics errors.
2.25 hours: Wendat: Got Cognate research listings rendering into usable HTML.
1.00 hours: Moses: Replaced original Schematron validation process with a new process and updated Schxslt version to 1.8, which solves OOM errors and improves speed considerably.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up, booking stations etc.
Total: 8.25 hours
Wednesday 2021-09-08
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Progress on products intended for text-analysis; retiring an id and dealing with fallout.
0.75 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN on features for whaling map; research on animating a marker along a line.
4.50 hours: Moses: Progress on static build process. Original XML now being created with useful maps pre-generating links to related items, and other progress.
Total: 7.00 hours
Thursday 2021-09-09
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: Moses: Progress with build file; adding generated table of entries for site; adding edition/version file for footer build.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Fix bad link and rebuild schema; discussions/poll on meeting times.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket triage, testing and merging a PR, cleaning up tickets, minor fix to avoid splash screen when no feature filters are present.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Initial work on rendering reconstruction for proofing/reading; meeting with SS for svn/XML/Oxygen training.
Total: 7.00 hours
Friday 2021-09-10
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with NC to work on Stylesheets tickets.
0.25 hours: MoEML: SVN user configuration and discussion of training.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Created and integrated a new documentation page covering conversion of TLN referencing to TEI as part of remediation process.
0.50 hours: Maint: Research on methods of protecting access to build artifacts on Jenkins. Looks like the start-up flag -Dhudson.security.ArtifactsPermission=true might do it; need to test properly when there's more time.
3.50 hours: Moses: More progress with static build, with all HTML pages being created (without content yet, but including head, menu, footer and some metadata for search).
Total: 7.00 hours
Posting hours from isolation log 2021-08-30 to 2021-09-03.