Tuesday, July 06, 2021 in 2021
This past iteration, we split our focus between PPA and CDH web. On PPA, we worked on adding support for importing Gale/ECCO content. For CDH web, we worked on the first charter for CDH web, to articulate the roles and responsibilities and prioritize …
Monday, June 07, 2021 in 2021
Our focus this iteration was on Geniza work as we finished out the second phase of work and created our first production release: we successfully migrated the Princeton Geniza Project metadata from a Google Sheets spreadsheet into the new relational …
Monday, May 24, 2021 in 2021
This iteration we completed 18 development points on Geniza as we work towards a first release and migrating the metadata from the spreadsheet to the new relational database. We also completed a smattering of bugfixes and chores as part of planned …
Monday, May 10, 2021 in 2021
This iteration we closed 10 development points for a rolling velocity of 8. Our primary focus was on Princeton Geniza Project, but we did a small amount of planned work on the CDH website, ansible deploy scripts, and a very small amount of unplanned …
Monday, April 26, 2021 in 2021
This iteration we closed 11 development points for a rolling velocity of 19, still coming down from the massive number of points closed three iterations ago. Princeton Geniza Project We made more improvements to the data import, fixing …
Monday, April 12, 2021 in 2021
The development points for this iteration were quite low (only 4 points), but our rolling velocity continues to be unnusually high (26 points) based on the last two iterations, which were included an enormous amount of work. Based on the design …
Monday, March 29, 2021 in 2021
The points and total number of issues closed for the last iteration is quite high — 42 points total, 25 for cdhweb and 17 for geniza, which results in a rolling velocity of 27. I’d like to think this is a sign that we’re gaining momentum …
Monday, March 15, 2021 in 2021
Rolling velocity for this iteration increased from about 10 points to about 15 points, largely due to a substantial chunk of CDH website user stories that completed the testing process together after multiple iterations. CDH Website This iteration we …
Monday, March 01, 2021 in 2021
This iteration we continued to make progress on building out the new relational database for the Geniza project and importing existing data from spreadsheets. Database structure, admin interface, and data import for languages & scripts are …
Monday, February 15, 2021 in 2021
This iteration we closed a significant number of issues for the Geniza project; the completed development work was all related to prototypes from the first phase (IIIF images with transcription, experimenting with eScriptorium, and two stories for a …