Kriti’s work log archive: 2023-07¶
2023-07-31 (Mon)¶
Partial day, sick
- Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / Matrix / email + related action items
- Rescheduled / scheduled a couple of meetings
- Matrix discussion about Foreign Data Wrappers and people who don’t want to install our schemas
- Fundraising
- Completed new version of script + associated slides for this week’s meeting
- Preparatory call for Friday’s fundraising meeting
2023-07-28 (Fri)¶
- Product
- Installation planning meeting
- Reviewed i18n UI
- Reviewed superuser creation design question
- Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / Matrix / email
- Responded to Sean’s email about user reported issues workflow
- Team management
- Reviewed work logs, sent reminder about missing logs
- Fundraising
- How to Raise Money workshop session (8/11, 90 min)
- User help
- Responded to installation feedback discussion
- Added
user reported
label to #3076 - Triaged a bunch of new user reported issues
2023-07-27 (Thu)¶
- Team management
- 1:1 with Mukesh
- Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / Matrix / email
- Responded to Sean’s email about user reported issues
- User help
- Followed up on user’s request for a
develop
build in
- Followed up on user’s request for a
- Product
- Worked through installation docs outline and meeting agenda with Mukesh
- Fundraising
- Did some work on the script for the upcoming meeting
2023-07-26 (Wed)¶
- Team management
- Weekly meeting
- Fundraising
- Prep for today’s workshop session (podcast)
- How to Raise Money workshop session (7/11)
- Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / email / Matrix correspondence
- Followed up on release management & product strategy email threads
- Call with Sam
2023-07-25 (Tue)¶
- Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / email / Matrix correspondence
- Team management
- 1:1 with Rajat
- Quick Matrix checkins with team members
- Sent out email for tomorrow’s meeting
- Product
- Did a bunch more work on product strategy
- Followed up with Mukesh about installation work
- Call with Mukesh where we worked through the installation outline and plan for the next meeting
- Call with Ghislaine to go over product strategy work and discuss tomorrow’s call
2023-07-24 (Mon)¶
- Comms
- Caught up on GitHub / email / Matrix correspondence
- Read project updates
- Read through worklogs and followed up with team members about out of date worklogs
- Product
- Thought a bunch about product strategy
- Product strategy discussion and next steps call with Ghislaine
- Worked on product strategy draft
- Tooling
- Followed up on 1Password Open Source program approval
- Re-enabled accounts now that our team has more seats
2023-07-21 (Fri)¶
- Did a big internal reorganization of my work and priorities
- Brief discussion with Ghislaine (on chat) about product strategy work
- Responded to Transifex rep – we’re all set for the open source plan now.
- Attended community team event
- Caught up on GitHub, Matrix, email
- How to Raise Money workshop session (6/11)
2023-07-20 (Thu)¶
Partial day, sick
- Product
- Call with Ghislaine: product-strategy check in & next steps
- Project management
- Marked installation improvements project as approved
- Responded to Aritra’s project thread.
- Release management
- Followed up on a few GitHub issues
- Tools
- Spent some time trying to debug wiki syncing issues
- Did some manual fixes, sent an email to the team with next steps
- Comms
- Caught up with email, GitHub, Matrix inboxes
2023-07-19 (Wed)¶
- Team management
- Ran the weekly meeting
- Posted meeting notes on the wiki
- Project management
- Discussion with Mukesh about:
- changes to the installation project to address Pavish’s feedback
- Next steps before scheduling an installation related meeting
- Followed up on Aritra’s project idea
- Discussion about deploying internal server automatically
- Discussion with Mukesh about:
- Tools
- Spent some time trying to debug wiki syncing issues
- Release management
- Followed up on Rajat’s thread with next steps to managing the release
- Responded to and followed up on a few new tickets created by users
- Does not work on windows (followed up with Brent)
- Support for column descriptions/comments (commented)
- Not really possible to override settings (commented)
- The requirement of superuser postgresql access is problematic #2990 (followed up with Mukesh)
- Put a couple of bugs opened by Dom into the “next release milestone”
- Fundraising
- How to Raise Money workshop session (5/11)
- Comms
- Various discussions on Matrix
- Caught up on email and GitHub
2023-07-18 (Tue)¶
- Project management
- Reviewed and marked the following projects as approved:
- 2023-07 frontend fixes
- Shareable links
- Move DDL operations to SQL functions
- 2023-07 backend fixes
- Internationalization
- Product strategy
- Reviewed and marked the following projects as approved:
- Reviewed and followed up on installation project
- Updated projects page with a bit more detail on our workflow.
- Simplified project template to be more in line with the new workflow.
- Followed up on Shrey’s project.
- Reviewed and followed up on Aritra’s project idea.
- Followed up on Varsha’s email.
- Regular comms
- Followed up on various GitHub issues
- Caught up with email
- Team management
- Cleaned up and expanded agenda for tomorrow’s weekly meeting.
- Updated meeting agenda item template.
- Fundraising
- 1:1 with Geoffrey to get advice on the upcoming meeting
2023-07-17 (Mon)¶
- Management & administration
- Confirmed 1Password renewal, signed up for open source program
- Followed up with Transifex support
- Triaged GitHub and email
- Followed up on UCB Product Design Studio collaboration request
- Reviewed work logs and sent reminder to team members who haven’t been keeping them updated
- Product
- Call with Mukesh to iron out details of the installation improvements project.
- Product strategy check in with Ghislaine, decided next steps.
- Reviewed skipping inference UI proposal with Ghislaine.
- Fundraising
- Scheduled prep call with Geoffrey
- Scheduled practice call with Ian
2023-07-14 (Fri)¶
Partial day, sick
- Management & administration
- Caught up on email and chat, some follow ups
- 1Password cleanup and followup
- Fundraising
- How to Raise Money workshop session (4/11)
2023-07-13 (Thu)¶
Partial day, sick
- Management & administration
- Rescheduled 1:1s to be more manageable
- Cancelled team meeting
- Checked in on Matrix with: Sean, Ghislaine, Pavish, Brent, Anish, Rajat, Mukesh, Dom
- Posted installation meeting notes
- Followed up on some meeting scheduling and accounting stuff.
- Followed up with Transifex support re: open source status
- Created a new Transifex project and invited Mukesh and Rajat
- Followed up on 1Password renewal
- Product
- Kicked off project approval discussions
- Reviewed projects:
- 2023-07 frontend fixes
- Shareable links
- Move DDL operations to SQL functions
- 2023-07 backend fixes
- Internationalization
- Installation improvements
- Product strategy project check in with Ghislaine
2023-07-12 (Wed)¶
- Management & administration
- Caught up on email, GitHub, Matrix
- Re-organized projects and responsibilities pages.
- Product
- Wrote up 2023-07 product strategy project
- Fundraising
- How to Raise Money workshop session (3/11)
- Other
- External meeting for networking/advice + pre-prep
2023-07-11 (Tue)¶
- Management & administration
- Caught up on email
- Reviewed worklogs
- Reviewed 1Password options and decided on next steps; followed up with Ondrej
- Product
- Installation related meeting and follow up discussion
- Caught up on GitHub issues and followed up on a few of them
- Discussion with Ghislaine about next steps for strategy / user research project
- Contacted Transifex about open source plan
- Fundraising
- 1:1 with Geoffrey
2023-07-10 (Mon)¶
Day off.
2023-07-07 (Fri)¶
- Management & administration
- Caught up with email, Matrix, and GitHub (various responses and follow ups)
- Product
- Planning meeting with Ghislaine for strategy / user research work
- Reviewed the spec for shareable links and sent some feedback via email
- Read through and responded to forms research
- Looked through Aritra’s blog post and associated PR
- Fundraising
- Attended How to Raise Money workshop session (2/11)
- Team building & community
- Attended core team event
- Nominated a couple of people for a GSoC-related leadership program
2023-07-06 (Thu)¶
- Management & administration
- Caught up with email and GitHub
- Prepped for and ran the team planning meeting
- Scheduled next team, installation, and user research planning meetings
- 1:1s with Sean and Pavish
- Set up worklog pages on wiki
- Followed up on async planning emails
- Posted a bunch of meeting notes from this week’s meetings on the wiki
- Product
- Prepped for and ran the installation planning meeting
- Prioritized issues for Sean and Dom and sent an email