Toolhub-dev June 2021

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2021-06-25 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the two weeks ending 2021-06-25. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Patrolling support * Lists! * Working out a timeline until the 1.0 deployment == Timelines == (paraphrased from "Working out a timeline until the 1.0 deployment" on wiki) Our July/August revised deployment target dates are coming up really, really fast! We would ideally like to have Toolhub deployed by the time that Wikimania 2021 starts. With that operational goal in mind, 2021-08-12 is the last day we could deploy and meet that goal. Working backwards from that date, we need 2-3 weeks of feature freeze for the Security review and at least a week for post-review remediation. Let's call that 4 weeks to be safe. That puts our "pencils down" date for 1.0 features at 2021-07-15 at the latest. That gives us a bit less than 3 weeks to add the basic plumbing and display for lists and clean up any other outstanding issues that can't be done in parallel with the security review code freeze. It seems reasonably possible that we can get the work we need done in time to meet the desired launch. Ultimately however we will not be "launching no matter what". If we end up needing a bit more time to ensure that the community sees a stable, functional tool on the day we announce it, we will take that time. No fancy launch announcement is worth the loss of reputation that a new product takes when it fails to meet basic user expectations on first use. == Wrap up == The Foundation's fiscal year 2020/2021 comes to a close next week. Back in April 2021 we announced our goals for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year: content moderation, lists of tools, and annotations. A few weeks ago we amended those goals to remove annotations. Our hopes exceeded our reach, but we know that we will continue to work on the Toolhub project in fiscal year 2021/2022 so the feature will be added when we have the capacity to do so. As we get to the last few weeks before the planned launch we will have to make more difficult choices like this. That's a normal part of building a product. Good ideas are easy to generate, but good implementations take more time. I hope all of you following along can understand our explanations of what is happening and why. If not, please do ask questions! We cannot guarantee that you will agree with our analysis and decisions, but we hope that we can at least show how we thought about the problems and what motivated us to choose one option over another. :) [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-06-25 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Co-present at Wikimania?
by Bryan Davis 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

I am interested in submitting an "Intro to Toolhub" talk for Wikimania. Srishti and I have a slide deck that we have been building up, most recently presented during the Hackathon. Presentations by Foundation staff on products at Wikimania have not however been the easiest thing to get past the program selection committee however (for good reason honestly). I'm wondering if any of you fine non-Foundation staff folks would be interested in working with Srishti and I on a proposal and presentation that would be a bit less "the Foundation has arrived to solve your problems" and a bit more "here's a interesting and complex problem for the movement and an attempt to make some progress on resolving it"? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-06-11 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-06-11. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Edit suppression UI * RapiDoc upgraded * Patrolling API * Annotations will not be included in the 1.0 release Annotations are a much desired feature to allow shared community editing to be combined with the base maintainer controlled toolinfo data for each registered tool. This feature however is also relatively complex and in need of further detailed specification. We do not believe that there is time remaining to even make a good faith attempt at adding the core functionality in our current timebox. We have instead decided to move this feature into a future release following the initial 1.0 deployment. We are very close to having all of the content moderation features in place. We plan on implementing list of tools next, both for managing "favorite" tools as a private list for each user as well as "public" lists which can be seen by others. This work will very likely carry over into the start of the next Wikimedia Foundation quarter. It will also complete our revised 1.0 feature roadmap. Next week is going to be great fun for those of us at the Foundation, but less productive for the Toolhub project. The Foundation is holding its first ever virtual All Hands event June 15 through June 17. These 3 days will be filled with many online activities to help us all reconnect with each other and meet new folks. Bryan and Srishti are not likely to be doing much coding at the same time however. Friday June 18 will be an observed holiday for Foundation staff as well. As a result, we will not be publishing a weekly wrap up on 2021-06-18 and will instead resume publication on 2021-06-25. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-06-11 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Welcome Seve Kim to the list
by Bryan Davis 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hey folks, I have added Seve Kim to our mailing list today. Seve is a Technical Product Manager at the Foundation. He will be joining our project officially in July to help with research and new feature design for Toolhub. I'm excited to have him working with us and hope that y'all will help make him feel welcome. Seve has not had a lot of direct experience yet in working with our technical contributor community and the tools sub-community, but I have hopes that we can all help him out as he learns about this interesting and complex ecosystem and the folks who make it possible. 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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2021-06-04 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the 2 weeks ending 2021-06-04. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Special:Contributions and Special:RecentChanges workalikes * Group membership management * Edit suppression API It feels like we came back from the long weekend in the middle of this two week update with energy to dig into things and get the project moving again. We tuned up some almost there patches and got them merged. We also found answers to some questions of how things should work that were hanging open before the break. There is a lot of work remaining in our current roadmap. It is likely that we will not get all the things we hoped for two months ago all the way to {{Done}} before the end of June, but we will keep plugging along and try to make good choices about which features to consider critical and which we can keep in mind for later without risking the value of the whole project. The recently completed internal planning process for the Foundation's fiscal year 2021/2022 (July 2021 - June 2022) includes continued work and new planned features for Toolhub. Knowing this is in many ways a relief for Bryan who had fears of the 'initial' release becoming the only release due to competing priorities. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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