Toolhub-dev February 2021

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2021-02-26 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-02-26. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Unexpectedly quick progress on faceted search! * Work continues on direct tool registration The faceted search feature has a work in progress UI in gerrit already! A combination of the backend being easier than expected and Bryan's burning desire to see an actual working search with facet display and drill-down made this quick burst possible. We should probably also be begrudgingly thankful for lockdown boredom as a contributing factor. :) The unexpected speed of getting a working UI for search is encouraging for our quarterly goals. We still have quite a bit of work left to implement user interfaces for the toolinfo registration, editing, and history APIs, but with the vast majority of backend work to support these done Bryan can start helping more with UI work in the last month of the quarter. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-02-19 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-02-19 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-02-19. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Revert and undo actions added to history/diff API * Work started on faceted search * Various smaller bug/feature fixes The big news this week is work starting in earnest on the faceted search functionality. As documented in more detail on meta, this work is using Elasticsearch as the backend search service. This has some risk due to the recent relicensing of new versions of Elasticsearch under the gratis but not libre Server Side Public License. Bryan is part of a working group inside the Technology department that is already looking into the future of Elasticsearch for Wikimedia projects. At this time, it seems best to continue with the prior plan to use Elasticsearch for Toolhub--even if that means a rewrite prior to production launch--rather than hold all work until we find out what the working group recommends. If y'all have strong opinions about this decision that you would like to share, please do send them either to this list or directly to Bryan. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-02-19 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-02-12 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-02-12. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Security Readiness Review for Toolhub planned for Q4 * Detour to fix tech debt because of pyca/cryptography packaging changes * API for history and diff of toolinfo records merged * Direct tool registration UI work started * Various small bug/feature fixes See <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-02-12#Fun_tim…> for what Bryan ended up spending time on this week. Our drama was pretty minor compared to the frustrations that other projects felt [1][2]. It's hard to blame the upstream for moving forward, but it is really tricky to keep track of the planning boards of the long chain of indirect dependencies in a project like Toolhub. Srishti will be taking some well deserved time off next week, so there will probably not be a large amount of progress on the toolinfo creation screens in next week's report. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-02-12 [1]: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771 [2]: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/1420 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-02-05 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-02-05. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Toolhub API OAuth fully implemented * Tracking for per-edit changes to tool information implemented * SPDX license identifier API and validation added * API error response format documented in OpenAPI spec * Direct tool registration UI wireframes created and reviewed * API for history and diff of toolinfo records in progress * Toolhub advisory council members asked to stay involved through June 2021 We were able to complete the first of our three major goals for the January-March quarter of planned work this week with the resolution of Toolhub API OAuth. Bryan estimates that the backend APIs for our second major goal of Direct tool registration are 60% complete, and only blocked by competing time commitments. Srishti is just starting work on the UI components to go with this backend. It is still too early to know if we will complete all of our goal work in the quarter, but things are looking good at the moment. :) The presentation to Foundation staff that was planned for 2021-02-04 has been postponed until 2021-03-04. It turns out that there was some more pressing news [1] that preempted the February staff meeting's planned schedule. The good news here for Toolhub is that we should have even more features to show off in March! [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-02-05 [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2021-February/096166.html Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Future of the Toolhub advisory council?
by Bryan Davis 02 Feb '21

02 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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