Toolhub/Progress reports/2022-04-01
Report on activities in the Toolhub project for the week ending 2022-04-01.
Annotations
editRaymond uploaded a patch to add support for viewing and editing the new annotation layer of a toolinfo record. This patch includes support for the community to add data for a number of toolinfo.json fields that have been added by Toolhub which are not widely used yet in externally hosted toolinfo.json files:
- deprecated: If true, the use of this tool is officially discouraged.
- replaced_by: If this tool is deprecated, this parameter should be used to link to the replacement tool.
- experimental: If true, this tool is unstable and can change or go offline at any time.
- for_wikis: The wiki(s) this tool can be used on.
- icon: A link to a Wikimedia Commons file description page for an icon that depicts the tool.
- available_ui_languages: The language(s) the tool's interface has been translated into.
- tool_type: web app, desktop app, bot, gadget, user script, command line tool, coding framework, lua module, template, other
- api_url: A link to the tool's API, if available.
- developer_docs_url: A link to the tool's developer documentation, if available.
- user_docs_url: A link to the tool's user documentation, if available.
- feedback_url: A link to location where the tool's user can leave feedback.
- privacy_policy_url: A link to the tool's privacy policy, if available.
- translate_url: A link to the tool's translation interface.
- bugtracker_url: A link to the tool's bug tracker on GitHub, Bitbucket, Phabricator, etc.
January-March 2022 accomplishments
editThis week saw the completion of the January-March 2022 quarter (FY21/22 Q3 in Foundation jargon). The team took some time to reflect on the last 3 months and came up with this list of accomplishments:
- New features for creating and viewing lists
- A "recent changes" feed that can be used for patrolling
- Backend features for "annotations" that the community can add to toolinfo records
- Search improvements including English stemming and N-gram based search as you type lookups for both tools and lists
- Node v10 -> Node v14 upgrade
- 2 production deployments
April-June 2022 project goals
editThe team met with several external collaborators to discuss our goals for Toolhub in the April-June quarter (FY21/22 Q4 in Foundation jargon). We expect to have a number of distractions this quarter (Wikimedia Hackathon 2022, a Technical Engagement team offsite, folks taking vacation time) which in turn influences the amount of work we will commit to performing. Our preliminary plan is to focus on these areas:
- Finish initial annotations support
- Address technical debt by upgrading to a newer long-term stable release of Django and ensuring that we are able to work with newer versions of Elasticsearch
- Create a straw-dog proposal for a controlled vocabulary for use cases and discuss with the Wikimedia community with help from Tricia Burmeister
- Increase community awareness of Toolhub with outreach promoting new features and soliciting help in adding tools to the catalog and improving information about existing tools with help from Komla Sapaty