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2021-11-19 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-11-19 See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Slavina Stefanova joins team * Auto-complete/lookahead search for adding tools * UI for favorite tools * Improvements to development environment * Always expand navigation drawer if user prefers reduced motion * No report next week (2021-11-26) Slavina's arrival completes the currently planned growth of the Toolhub team. Salvina, Raymond, Bryan, and Seve will continue to work on establishing workflows and practices for the team in the coming weeks and months. Work will continue to focus in the near term on adding more features related to lists of tools and addressing technical debt accumulated during the course of building the 1.0 version. Planning is also underway for the next set of major features to be worked on during the Foundation's January-March 2022 fiscal quarter. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-11-19 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Welcome Slavina Stefanova to the list
by Bryan Davis 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

Slavina Stefanova [0][1][2] has joined the Toolhub team and this list. Slavina is a newly hired software engineer in the Foundation's Technical Engagement team. Slavina was previously an Outreachy intern with Wikimedia in round 22 (May-August 2021) [3] where she worked on a python tool for working with Wikimedia SQL dump files [4][5]. Welcome to the team and list Slavina! 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. :) [0]: sstefanova[at]wikimedia.org [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SStefanova_(WMF) [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Slst2020/ [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_22 [4]: https://mwsql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html [5]: https://github.com/blancadesal/mwsql Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-11-12 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-11-12 See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Improvements to development environment * Auto-complete/lookahead search for adding tools * Metrics about tools that Toolhub can surface Unblocking developers using Linux hosts to contribute to Toolhub and getting a first patch into Gerrit from our newest team member were nice accomplishments for the week. Knowledge sharing across the team with discussions like the one on tool metrics is something that we plan to do more of in the coming weeks and months. This is especially important as the team grows so that we can all be more informed in the work that we do and the solutions that we propose. Speaking of growing, next week we will be adding another developer to the team! We will save the reveal of who for next week's report, but this will complete the currently planned growth of the team and let us start thinking about things like updated team practices to improve communication and review of our work. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-11-12 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-11-05 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-11-05 See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Raymond Ndibe joins team * Oct-Dec focus: finish lists - Raymond is getting started familiarizing himself with the Toolhub code base and Vue framework. - Seve is working on adding user stories related to lists as Phabricator tickets. - Bryan is picking up some work on favorites that Srishti started before our 1.0 release. - Toolhub is up to 1526 registered tools and 181 Wikimedians with connected accounts! [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-11-05 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Welcome Raymond Ndibe to the list
by Bryan Davis 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Hey folks, I am happy to share that Raymond Ndibe [0][1] has joined the Toolhub team and this list. Raymond is working as a software engineer on a temporary contract with the Technical Engagement team. Raymond was previously a Outreachy intern with Wikimedia in round 20 (May-August 2020) [2] where he worked on the https://wikicontrib.toolforge.org/ tool with Srishti and others. Welcome to the team and list Raymond! 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. :) [0]: rolisaemeka-ctr[at]wikimedia.org [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Raymond_Ndibe [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_20 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-10-29 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-10-29 See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Brief outage on 2021-10-27 * Notice now shown on demo servers * Warnings from Kubernetes health checks resolved This was a fairly quiet week for Toolhub development and discussion. In November the team will be growing thanks to the hiring of a new software engineer and a software engineering contractor. Bryan and Seve will be working in the coming weeks to help onboard these new members of the team and ensure that they have a good selection of new features, bugs, and technical debt tasks to work on. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-10-29 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-10-22 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-10-22 See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Toolinfo schema v1.2.0 marked as stable * Bug fixes * Figure out how to deal with duplicate toolinfo records * Multiple authors * Content ownership/modification model * Growth of toolinfo in week 1 When Toolhub launched on 2021-10-14 there were 1472 records in the system. These came from various toolinfo.json URLs previously registered with Hay's Directory and new content scraped from enwiki. As of this writing on 2021-10-22 the directory contains 1631 records, a 10% increase. The bulk of these new records come from work by Magnus Manske to ensure that all of his tools (including old, obsolete, and unmaintained tools) are documented. 22 new toolinfo records have also been created directly in Toolhub by users. The Toolhub team has been excitedly watching talk pages, Phabricator tasks, mailing lists, and error logs this week. Reception by the community thus far is positive. Users are interacting with Toolhub to explore it's data. Some are exploring the boundaries of the current implementation and providing feedback about how it met their expectations and ideas for future improvements. The team will be meeting in the coming week to talk more about what is next for Toolhub and the team itself. Check back next week for more details about those future plans. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-10-22 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-10-15 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-10-15 See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Last minute bug fixes and tweaks * Toolhub 1.0 is live! The official https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/ deployment of Toolhub was announced to the Wikimedia community on 2021-10-14. The "Create an authoritative and well promoted catalog of Wikimedia tools" phabricator task (T115650) that we chose to represent the Toolhub 1.0 milestone was created from discussions on wikitech-l in 2015. That task was ranked as the 4th most popular proposal in the 2017 Developer Wishlist survey. In 2018 the Wikimedia Cloud Services team hired Harej as a contractor to begin work on examining the use cases for Toolhub. The Wikimedia Technical Engagement team was able to make implementing Toolhub a part of their fiscal year 2020-2021 plans. Our first progress report was published on 2020-09-18 following several weeks of initial planning and work on the project. It has been a long journey requiring help from many, many people to to reach this point. We have thanked many of you who helped in these progress reports and in the launch announcement. If you have helped and you have not been thanked yet, we are sorry and thank you! The Toolhub team is looking forward to continuing to discuss and implement new features as we continue to work to jointly evolve this project with the Wikimedia community. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-10-15 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Toolhub 1.0 is live!
by Bryan Davis 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

I can't save this one for tomorrow's weekly report: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/ is live and announced to the movement! See Birgit's announce email on wikitech-l [0] for the long list of thank yous and other information. [0]: https://w.wiki/4DXz Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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Launch postponed until Thursday 2021-10-14
by Bryan Davis 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Just a quick note that we will be delaying the launch announcements by a day in order to have time to fix two small, but user visible, issues which were found yesterday while preparing for the launch. There was also one complete "show stopper" bug found yesterday (T293157), but it has been resolved already with help from Ema on the Traffic team. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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