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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 05 Jun '21

05 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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2021-05-22 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 23 May '21

23 May '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-05-22. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Freenode IRC Drama! * Integration with Libraryupgrader * Group membership management * Special:Contributions and Special:RecentChanges workalikes * Hackathon! I presented on Toolhub today at the hackathon. My slides with speaker notes are on commons [1]. I think there is a video somewhere on YouTube too. Maybe Risker remembers how to find that? The wrap up for the week is mixed. We got some help from others (yay!). We lost some time to emerging events outside the project (IRC and an unfortunate incident involving liquids and laptops). And we ended the week with a hackathon (yay! But also time away from Toolhub coding). All in all, we are making progress and able to identify our recent blockers. It's hard to ask for a lot more than that. Except maybe a week that has fewer distractions. Next week will not be that week though. The Foundation is taking a 4 day weekend. Don't expect a weekly update next week, but we will be back on 2021-06-04 telling you what has happened between now and then. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-05-14 [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intro_to_Toolhub_for_tool_maintainers_… Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-05-14 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 14 May '21

14 May '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-05-14. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Frontend authorization information * Group membership management Authorization rules engines and user management screens are not very exciting features for our eventual users, but they are important for building a better experience for those users. The next work expected to start for our content moderation workflows is reviewed/patrolled status tracking for toolinfo edits and associated work queues to help patrollers check for bad faith changes. In possibly more exciting news, Bryan will be giving an "Intro to Toolhub for tool maintainers" [1] presentation during next weekend's Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 [2] (2021-05-22 & 2021-05-23). Slides and hopefully a recording of that talk will be shared in a future progress report for those who are interested but unable to attend the virtual hackathon. Bryan will also be reachable during his wake hours that overlap with the hackathon to answer questions folks may have about Toolhub in the #wmhack Freenode IRC channel. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-05-14 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282039 [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-05-07 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 07 May '21

07 May '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-05-07. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Special:Contributions and Special:RecentChanges workalikes * User groups for authorization After a bit of a slow start, we are making more consistent progress on tasks for our content moderation support feature list. These features are necessary for allowing the community to manage the unfortunate realities of spam and abuse that are nearly universal in systems which allow users to edit content. The Wikimedia community is accustomed to having the powerful moderation tools which have been built into MediaWiki over the years. Toolhub's moderation tools will not be as mature as MediaWiki's, but we hope that by modeling them loosely after MediaWiki's tools they will at least be familiar to many who will help us patrol the content. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-05-07 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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This list has been migrated to mailman3
by Bryan Davis 06 May '21

06 May '21

Our list is now running from the new, shiny, exciting Mailman3 service! * https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/toolhub-dev.lists.wikimedia.org/ * https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/toolhub-dev@lists.wikimedia.org/ If this brings you any joy, let Amir and Legoktm know that you appreciate all the work they have been doing to make the mailman2 -> mailman3 migration happen. If this does not bring you any joy, I'm sorry. Consider being a bigger geek? ;) Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-04-30 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 01 May '21

01 May '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-04-30. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Progress on adding unit tests to vue frontend * Object level permissions management There is a colloquial analogy about hidden work that goes something like "A swan moves gracefully and seemingly without effort on top of the water, but underneath the water its feet are continuously working". This feels appropriate for our progress on Toolhub in April 2021. We were able to complete last bits of our direct tool registration goal from the prior quarter early in April, but have not crossed any other major features off since. We have however been making slow but steady progress on our content moderation support goal. Work in this area should start becoming more visible as we start work on user interface components for this in the coming weeks. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-04-30 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-04-23 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-04-23. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * API for filtering /api/auditlogs results implemented Not a lot of visible progress was made this week. The auditlog filtering addition took longer than originally planned due to some difficulties working with the backend filtering library. Ultimately Bryan gave up on adding the filters the "right" way as the upstream filter code is not properly integrated with the separate but related upstream API code. The main learning from this was really a re-learning: timebox debugging 3rd party libraries or risk falling into the "I will just try one more time with this slightly different usage" tar pit. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-04-23 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-04-16 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-04-16. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Fixes to reduce "dirty" diffs * Diff display enhancements * Backend validation of language codes * Many small code cleanups and ui tweaks Lots and lots of code cleanup and annoyance fixing fun happened this week! Now it is time to get back to building more core features from our roadmap. Bryan expects to be working on backend enhancements related to our content moderation goals in the coming week. Srishti will keep working on improving test coverage and small bug fixes in the frontend until there is new backend functionality to expose. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-04-16 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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2021-04-09 weekly Toolhub update
by Bryan Davis 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-04-09. See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links. == TL;DR == * Edit history, diff, undo and rollback completed * April-June 2021 project goals published Completing our January-March goals feels really good. Astute readers will notice that it is now April and not March, but the one week schedule overrun is not too damaging to our other planned work. We have decided to work towards feature completion in the April-June quarter rather than reducing the feature set to hit a June release date. We are adjusting our expected production deployment to August 2021. We expect to receive a security readiness review in July 2021. We will also be using July work on things like end user documentation and any remaining deployment tooling integrations that will be needed prior to launch. We hope that these changes will make things less stressful for our team and the other teams that will be helping complete the necessary reviews and non-coding work required for the initial deployment of our new service. [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-04-089 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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