January 2021 - Toolhub-dev - lists.wikimedia.org

Future of the Toolhub advisory council?
by Bryan Davis 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hey folks! I have been promising this discussion for a whole month. Rather than add a "ps I still haven't had this conversation" note to this week's progress report to the mailing list I'm going to start this thread. :) First I would like to thank all of you for the help you have provided to the project so far. You may or may not see your interactions with Srishti and I on irc, email, phabricator, or gerrit as having been meaningful, but they were! Even beyond the tangible support, knowing that we can reach out to each of you individually or as a group has helped to alleviate stress about making many decisions. I do however feel badly that I have not yet found ways to have each of you be more meaningfully involved in shaping the project on a week to week basis. The majority of you are here to offer advice on the user facing aspects of the project, and although we are making a lot of progress we really are just starting to get to these important UI and workflow components. Our roadmap for the rest of this quarter (January-March 2021) includes edit screens and search screens that I hope many of you will have opinions about. Patrolling workflows will be work that we take up in the April-June quarter along with finalizing production deployment plans and getting sign off from the Foundation's Security and SRE groups on the project. I would really like to see all of you stay and get to these upcoming milestones with us. That being said, I also want to give all of you a chance to step back and focus on other things if this does not feel like a good use of your time. What are your feelings? Are you ready to continue this experiment for another 5 months until we reach launch? Do you have any requests for changes that would help you feel more engaged and useful in your advisory role? Please feel free to reply on list or only to me as you feel is appropriate. Radical transparency is fun, but I also know that sharing feelings in a publicly logged mailing list can be intimidating at times. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-01-29 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-01-29. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Direct tool registration core API built * OpenAPI documentation improved for complex fields * Initial RTL review completed * A handful of miscellaneous fixes committed Having the core toolinfo write API merged unblocks a large amount of UI work to add screens for creating and editing tools. While that work starts we will be making additional enhancements to the backend storage and API to track version history for tools and allow wiki-like views of past revisions and diffs between revisions. We expect the work needed to implement these features to be greatly accelerated by copying implementation details from the Striker project which has this functionality for it's toolinfo.json objects. Bryan and Srishti will be presenting an overview of Toolhub to the Wikimedia Foundation staff on 2021-02-04 as part of the Foundation's monthly staff meeting. We should be able to publish the slides from that talk on meta as well to provide folks in the larger Wikimedia community with the same overview. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-01-29 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-01-22 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-01-22. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * A central notification service is under review in gerrit * Niklas checked in to see how our integration with TWN is progressing * Toolhub API OAuth auth server UI work is in progress * RTL implementation is ready for feedback Tasks have been progressing a bit slower in the last two weeks as Srishti and Bryan have been pulled into work outside of the Toolhub project. This is normal and something we have expected in our capacity planning for the quarter. For the 3rd week in a row, Bryan has not managed to discuss the ongoing role of the advisory council in building and testing Toolhub. :(( [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-01-22 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-01-15 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-01-15. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Toolhub API OAuth auth server UI work is in progress * Bryan and Srishti discussing creating a "Definition of done" * Direct tool registration backend work starting * Mukunda Modell interested in helping with faced search The Foundation's fiscal year 2020/2021 Q3 is well underway. We are currently working on the OAuth features which were originally planned for Q2. Work should transition towards direct registration soon. Along the way we are also thinking more and more about lightweight but effective processes to help ensure that the codebase is well architected and fits the needs of its users. Bryan still owes the advisory council some discussion of their ongoing role in building and testing Toolhub. :( [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-01-15 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-01-08 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-01-08. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Translatewiki.org integration complete for UI messages * Lots of localization improvements (17 gerrit change sets) * User interface updates * First js unit tests added * January-March 2021 project goals published This week marks the start of a new quarter of work at the Wikimedia Foundation. Looking back at the work that we have accomplished in Q2 (October-December 2020), we have come a very long way! At the start of October 2020 we had a plan for how work would proceed, but the application itself was a placeholder Django backend with no user interface. Today we have a functional frontend and backend with several major features implemented. We have also migrated the project from a personal repo on GitHub to Wikimedia's Gerrit server and integrated it with the Wikimedia continuous integration infrastructure. We even have a live demo server which will allow us to get feedback on our progress from a wider group of people. Both Srishti and I have learned a lot about Vue development. I also accidentally learned quite a bit about the internals of Blubber while implementing 2 feature patches to extend it to better support a project like Toolhub. Srishti and I are both happy with the choices of Django, Vue, and Vuetify that they made in the planning phase of the project, and feel confident that building the more complex features planned for Q3 (January-March 2021) will proceed smoothly. I would like to thank all of you who have been following along and helping answer questions for us. I hoped to have already started a discussion on this list about the role of the advisory council during the new calendar year, but time has gotten away from me this week. I will try harder next week! :) [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-01-08 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Welcome Mukunda to the list
by Bryan Davis 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Hey folks, Mukunda Modell joined our mailing list today. For those of you who don't know him, Mukunda works at the Wikimedia Foundation as part of the Release Engineering team. Among the many things he does within RelEng, Mukunda is the Foundation's local expert on Phabricator internals and deployment. He writes extensions for Phab, takes care of actually deploying new upstream releases, and helps folks find ways to make Phab work for more complicated use cases like handling security tickets. Prior to joining the Foundation Mukunda worked at Deviant Art, and that is actually related to his reason for joining us. At DA Mukunda worked on a faceted search system similar to the one we plan to build into Toolhub. Mukunda reached out to me after hearing a presentation I gave on Toolhub that included some talk about facet search. He is interested in consulting with us on that feature, and maybe I'll be able to nerd snipe him into help with some coding too. :) Everyone, please do remember that this list is a part of the Wikimedia technical spaces and thus covered by the <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct>. The archives of the list are also publicly available, so keep that in mind as well when posting here. As long as we stick to the topic of the list, developing Toohub, I think everyone will be fine. :) Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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