Dom’s work log¶
Active¶
- Create and prioritize issue for writing tests for db creation/update/removal via API
- Discovered that there are no tests for this when trying to reproduce #3230
- Associated code is messy, fix it up as well
- Make sure #3230 (db reflection bug) is not reproducible anymore
- See #3245 (db bug fixes) reviewed and merged
- Open some good first issues
- Got a few ideas
- Do #2844 (api for bulk upserting of records)
- on pause; >75% done, but seems low priority
- frontend aspect can’t fit into 0.1.4
Backlog¶
- Consider automating finding 404 in our wiki
- Do #3076 (automate deploying internal mathesar)
- Process selected TODO comments into issues #2181
- Consider adding a make-like tool to main repo for common tasks
2023-10-23¶
- Sync with Brent
- Troubleshoot CI failing for #3245
- Found the (seemingly) last bug that kept tests from passing in CI
- Attempt to reproduce #3230 (db reflection bug) with #3245 merged
- Can’t, but I found the bug elusive to reproduce before
- Asked Rajat to try as well
2023-10-20¶
- Troubleshoot CI failing for #3245
- Found one of the problems, but ran into another
2023-10-19¶
- Troubleshoot CI failing for #3245
- Discuss using Zulip
2023-10-18¶
- Present GSoC proposal phase notes to team
- Finish preparing GSoC proposal phase note page in wiki
- Respond in Sean’s product vision follow-up email thread
2023-10-17¶
- Troubleshoot CI failing for #3245
- Respond in UX question about DB connections email thread
- Process notes from GSoC summit on proposal phase into a document
- https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar-wiki/pull/106
2023-10-16¶
- Traveling from Sunnyvale to Dominican Republic
2023-10-13¶
- Submit PR related to #3230 (db reflection bug)
2023-10-12¶
- Traveling to Sunnyvale for GSoC summit
2023-10-11¶
- Traveling to Sunnyvale for GSoC summit
2023-10-10¶
- Traveling to Sunnyvale for GSoC summit
2023-10-09¶
- Read GSoC summit updates
- Respond in CRM intro email thread
2023-10-06¶
- Respond in cycle 0.1.4 retrospective email thread
- Worked on #3230
- Continued working through the connection leak
- Significant progress, but there’s still a major leak somewhere
- Can’t yet merge
2023-10-05¶
- Worked on #3230
- Changes to reflection caused the connection leak bug to creep up again
- Have to fix that in order to merge
2023-10-05¶
- Conversation in frontend channel
- Team sync
2023-10-04¶
Had a very hard time being productive, effectively took most of day off.
- Sync with Sean
2023-10-03¶
- Started working on #3230 (db reflection bug)
- Respond in #3223 (Rajat’s db connection pr)
- Review #3201 and merge
- Review #3200
2023-10-02¶
- Respond in rsqla1 retrospective
- Sync with Brent
- Respond in ux design process for importing excel/json email thread
- See Anshumna’s final evaluation performed
2023-09-29¶
Away on sick leave.
2023-09-28¶
Away on sick leave.
2023-09-27¶
Away on sick leave.
2023-09-26¶
- Last sync with Anshuman
2023-09-25¶
- Do Supabase integration tests #3141
2023-09-22¶
- Submitted draft PR for Paste API
- Fix GSoC summit travel arrangements, broken due to a cancellation
2023-09-21¶
Feeling burnt out, trying to get work in, but starting late and energy levels are low.
- Respond to Anshuman in group chat
Ended up working mostly on my dev setup and other minimally-productive things that were easy to focus on.
2023-09-20¶
- Respond to Anish in Matrix
- Respond in GSoC group chat
2023-09-19¶
- Sync with Anshuman
- Sync with Anish
2023-09-18¶
- See #3186 reviewed and merged
- Sync with Brent
- Sync with Sean
Complete¶
2023-09-16 (Saturday)¶
Resumed work.
2023-09-15¶
Spent the day getting a VPS and setting it up for work; ended up being more work than I expected; important part of my configs didn’t survive the death of my previous dev box; but, by the end of the day I have a working development environment.
Decided that I’ll make this Saturday (09-16) a workday to make up for some of the lost time.
2023-09-14¶
Had technical difficulties with my development machine today: I bricked my motherboard during a component upgrade; was not able to work; spent the day troubleshooting my hardware and concluded that I cannot repair it within a practical timeframe: will look for alternatives;
2023-09-13¶
- Make requested changes in #3186 (support for column comments in backend)
2023-09-12¶
Had technical difficulties with the internet today, cut workday short.
- Respond in rsqla1 retrospective email thread
- hard deadline is Sept 15th
- but I said I’ll do it Sept 12th (Tuesday)
- so we can do more rounds of conversation
- Sync with Anshuman
- Did final RSVP for GSoC summit
2023-09-11¶
- Sync with Brent
- Post Monday’s weekly project update
- Review #3200 (contributor’s pr)
2023-09-08¶
I’ve been taking a long time to get into our SQL code; the learning curve is somewhat steep, I find. I do feel like I’m making good progress though.
- Review and merge #3195 (anshuman’s pr)
- Finish making requested changes to #3186 (support for column comments in backend)
- Sync with Brent
2023-09-07¶
- Make most of requested changes to #3186 (support for column comments in backend)
- Respond in #3195 (anshuman’s pr)
2023-09-06¶
- Start #2844 (api for bulk upserting of records)
- Team sync
- Catch up on emails
- Sync with Anshuman
- Review #3195 (anshuman’s pr)
2023-??-??¶
Unavailable due to family reasons
2023-08-29¶
Largely unavailable due to family trouble
- Setup a bi-weekly sync with Sean until the end of cycle
- Cancelled sync with Anshuman
- Started drafting a developer guide for working with our Postgres library
2023-08-28¶
- Sync with Brent
- Review and merge #3155 (anshuman’s pr)
- Add support for column comments in backend in #3186
2023-08-24¶
- Spent all day debugging support for column comments
2023-08-24¶
- See #3140 (test third party table with long identifiers) reviewed and merged
- See #3129 (fix db list in demo) reviewed and merged
- Respond in release email thread
2023-08-23¶
- Review and merge #3156 (brent’s test bug workaround pr)
- Respond in installation email thread
- Respond in appetite email thread
2023-08-22¶
- Sync with Anshuman
- Respond in stale bot issue thread
- Respond in niche research thread
- Respond in should we install on user db email thread
2023-08-21¶
- Start work on backend fixes
- Respond in installation email thread
- Respond in xy problem email thread
2023-08-18¶
- Published worklog
- Prepare for team meeting
- Respond in criteria for closing user issues email thread
- Update backend fixes project with outcome
- Read the newly posted and newly updated project documents
- Respond in investigate interop with preexisting dbs email thread
- Respond in appetite email thread
- Respond in release email thread
2023-08-17¶
- Make reservations for the GSoC mentor summit
- Catch up on email
- Respond in release email thread
- Respond in xy problem email thread
- Respond in package version management email thread
- Respond in should we install on user db email thread
- Respond in summarizations for json email thread
2023-08-16¶
- Make progress in cleaning up a backend issues created during last few months
- Prioritize tasks for backend fixes of next cycle #3144
- Figure out when and who will do Supabase research #3144
- Sync with Sean on prioritization of issues
2023-08-14¶
- Respond in should we install on user db email thread
- Respond in todo list for cooldown email thread
2023-08-11¶
Home life interfered, had to push most of today’s work to Monday.
- Create issue #3141 (investigate supabase integration)
2023-08-10¶
- Sync with Sean and Kriti over backlog prioritization
- Respond in Criteria for closing user-reported tickets email thread
- Team sync
- Submit PR with test case for long identifiers in preexisting database #3140
2023-08-09¶
- Review #3133 (pavish’s pr)
- Review #3127 (pavish’s pr)
- Attend weekly meeting
- Prepare for weekly meeting
- Reread last Wednesday’s weekly meeting notes
- Sync with Brent
2023-08-08¶
- Report #3135 (column endpoint is slow when columns are many)
- Review #3050 (sean’s column inference pr)
- Sync with Anshuman
- See #3083 (anshuman’s excel tests pr) reviewed
- Respond in backend fixes weekly update email thread
2023-08-07¶
- Post weekly project update
- Got a database dump from Sean to see if I can reproduce
- Sync with Sean about imports and weird HTTP/reflection problems he’s facing
- Push changes to #3113 to fix connection leak
- Organize keeping more detailed meeting notes for Anshuman’s project
- Push changes to #3113 to make it clearer
- Sync with Pavish over #3113
2023-08-04¶
- Prepare/organize Friday’s core team event
- Finish #3129 (fix db list in demo mode)
- Fix demo README.md instructions to include
python manage.py setup_demo_template_db - Update #3128 with meeting notes
- Review #3113 (pavish’s pr)
- Sync with Brent over #3128 (allow whitelisted dynamic defaults)
- Notify developer email list of breaking changes in dev db container
2023-08-03¶
- Review #3113 (pavish’s pr)
- Pushed draft pr #3129 (fix db list in demo mode)
- Review and merge #3059 (anshuman’s pr)
- Create and update #3128 (allow whitelisted dynamic defaults)
- Respond in the release email thread
- Respond in Varsha’s API endpoint email thread
2023-08-02¶
- Sync with Anshuman
- Review #3059 (anshuman’s pr)
- Read conversation about fdws in backend channel
- Read conversation with plan2 in general channel
2023-07-27¶
- Review #3107 (brent’s PR)
- Made part of reservations for the GSoC summit
2023-07-27¶
- Sync with Mukesh
- Notify of my break this week starting one day later than planned (and ending as planned)
2023-07-26¶
- Sync with Brent over #3097 (brent’s pr)
- Respond in #3078 (dynamic defaults via function lists)
- Update #3095 (improve support for unknown types) based on Brent’s comment
- Prepare for team meeting
- Do Anshuman’s midterm evaluation
- Finish reviewing #3097 (brent’s pr)
2023-07-25¶
- Review around half of #3097 (brent’s pr)
- Review #3092 (pavish’s backend pr)
- Created #3095 (improve support for unknown types)
- Update #3007 (support for point type)
- Update #2959 (support for citext type)
- Close as fixed #2709 (unknown types breaking Mathesar bug report)
- See #3040 (rudimentary support for unknown types) reviewed and merged
- Respond in #3040
- See #3025 reviewed and merged
- Respond in Varsha’s API endpoint uid email thread
2023-07-24¶
- Do Friday’s project update
- Respond in #3083 (anshuman’s excel tests pr)
- Review #3059 (anshuman’s excel import pr)
- Respond in #2751 (update readme with troubleshooting instructions)
- See #3029 merged
- Read projects’ friday updates
- Respond in Varsha’s API endpoint uid email thread
2023-07-21¶
- On sick leave
2023-07-20¶
Feeling under the weather, having trouble focusing
- Create #3078 (dynamic defaults via function lists)
2023-07-19¶
- Read weekly meeting agenda
- Review #3029 (gunicorn user instructions PR)
- Report adding unique constraint failing on point types #3067
- Report being able to sort by unsortable types #3066
- Respond in #3040
2023-07-18¶
- Do #3024 (support for unknown types) in #3040
- Add email thread links to backend fixes project wiki page
- Respond in #3050 (make column type inference optional)
2023-07-17¶
2023-07-14¶
- Offload #3039 (Anshuman’s max_level PR) to Anish
- Post friday’s backend fixes project update
- Handover a frontend bandaid-workaround for #2995 (fix big csv imports timing out) to Sean
- He said he’ll create an issue for it
- He also said he’ll start a conversation about UX work for a more wholesome solution to #2995
- Sync with Sean about #2995 (fix big csv imports timing out)
- Start conversation with Sam and Kriti about the GSoC tax form whose deadline is tomorrow
- Put all backend fixes project tickets in 0.1.3 milestone
- Respond in 2023-07 installation improvements project email thread
- Review projects
2023-07-13¶
- Seek advice on matrix backend channel about #3024 (support for unknown types)
- Message link
- Ask Sean to take up #2346, which is a mostly-frontend fix for #2995 (fix big csv imports timing out)
- Review and merge #3008
- Tidied up comments in #2346
2023-07-12¶
- Update backend fixes project
- Update backend fixes project to say that #3024 is an alternative approach to #2959 and #3007
- Investigate #3024 (graceful handling of unsupported types)
- Reproduce #2709 (unknown types breaking Mathesar bug report)
- Respond in querydown email thread
- Respond in #3024 (graceful handling of unsupported types)
- Respond in #2161
- Update backend fixes project
- Respond in backend fixes email thread
- Respond in #2995 (type inference timeout bug report)
- Make sure Aritra’s midterm evaluation is submitted in time
2023-07-11¶
- Sync with Anshuman
- Do #2245 (multi-column unique and pk constraints) in #3025
- Make metaticket for backend fixes project #3022
- Start work on backend fixes
- Review and merge #3016
2023-07-10¶
- Triage #3009
- Review #3008
- Respond to Anshuman’s DM
- Finish backend fixes project’s timeline
- Review #3016
- Try doing querydown in lispy syntax for discussion with Sean
2023-07-07¶
- Write up backend fixes project
- Review and merge #2993 (remove lazydict)
- Split reviewing Anshuman’s PRs with Anish
- Open #3007
- Respond in backend+frontend fixes email thread