Sprint 3 scrum log

[CianLR]

Format:

Meeting on day/month/year.

General notes about meeting.

Cian
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Done:
- Item a
- Item b

Doing:
- 1
- 2
- 3

Blockers:
- blocker I
- blocker II

Noah
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Done:
- Item a
- Item b

Doing:
- 1
- 2
- 3

Blockers:
- blocker I
- blocker II

Aaron
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Done:
- Item a
- Item b

Doing:
- 1
- 2
- 3

Blockers:
- blocker I
- blocker II

Ross
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Done:
- Item a
- Item b

Doing:
- 1
- 2
- 3

Blockers:
- blocker I
- blocker II

[CianLR]

November 19th - Met to work out the general direction of sprint 3

[CianLR]

November 20th - Met to create presentation and breaking tasks into individual issues

[CianLR]

Meeting on 21/11/18.

Decided on what we are going to start with and how we were going to "deliver" the research.
Also how to split the Likes Activity code up

Cian

Done:

• Cleanup bits Add docker-compose down to startup scripts #240, Fix extra follows proto indentation #241, Allow Ctrl-C of build #245

Doing:

• Modify proto package and base dir to allow imports #243 Allowing protobuf imports
• Add service for sending like activity #217 Sending Like activity

Blockers:

• None

Noah

Done:

• "Fuck all"

Doing:

• PR to add follow button Add button next to user bios in UI to allow user to follow them #30 (Add follow button in user bios #207)
• Next Research recommender systems #233 starting research and Find dataset(s) for building a user-to-follow recommender system #232 finding datasets

Blockers:

• Deciding deliverable on research (Presentation? Presentation next week on findings.)

Aaron

Done:

• PR open for Create "switchboard" to decide how to parse different s2s activities coming into a user's inbox #179 (Route actor inbox from one URL #244)

Doing:

• Moving on to Too many newlines in a post #215 and Send ACCEPT Activity in response to any follow received #177

Blockers:

• None

Ross

Done:

• "Nada"

Doing:

• Allow user to make their blog private #223 Research for recommender
• Create RSS scraper #227 RSS Scraper

Blockers:

• None

[CianLR]

Meeting on 27/11/18.

Cian & Noah were in Eindhoven at NWERC the last 5 days, slow progress as such.
Picking time/place for research presentation. 28th at 6PM.

Feature freeze Thurs 6th of Dec.

Cian

Done:

• Modify proto package and base dir to allow imports #243 Protobuf imports

Doing:

• Add service for sending like activity #217 Sending Like activity

Blockers:

• None

Noah

Done:

• Fuck all (in Eindhoven)

Doing:

• PR to add follow button Add button next to user bios in UI to allow user to follow them #30 (Add follow button in user bios #207)
• Research recommender systems #233 Started research on the recommender system (presso tomorrow)

Blockers:

• None

Aaron

Done:

• Route actor inbox from one URL #244 Was done for last sprint

Doing:

• Working on Receive ACCEPT & REJECT activities #178 receive accept and reject
• PR to support Receive ACCEPT & REJECT activities #178 open

Blockers:

• None

Ross

Done:

• Nada

Doing:

• Allow user to make their blog private #223 Research for recommender (Making presentation)
• Create RSS scraper #227 RSS Scraper (Semi-working, quite close)
• RSS-to-ActivityPub converter #4 RSS to Activity Pub

Blockers:

• Jack Nicholson

[CianLR]

Meeting on 02/12/18.

General updates, talked about how much the recommender should be intergrated into Rabble for the demo. Thinking of Jupyter Notebook.

Also talked about how to identify articles across the network. Going to do a URL.

Talked about if we will meet Thursday feature freeze, consensus is yes.

Cian

Done:

• PR Move some activities functions to a shared library #249 Move some shared activity functions (as part of Add service for sending like activity #217)

Doing:

• PR Add Like activity and ability to send a like #254 Adds ability to send a like (part of Add service for sending like activity #217)
• Add service for sending like activity #217 as a whole

Blockers:

• No unique way of identifying foreign articles

Noah

Done:

• Finished Research recommender systems #233 Research recommended systems (with Ross)

Doing:

• Find dataset(s) for building a user-to-follow recommender system #232 Finding datasets (have a workable dataset, just not perfect)
• Add button next to user bios in UI to allow user to follow them #30 Follow button in UI (Issue Add follow button in user bios #207)

Blockers:

• Nope

Aaron

Done:

• Fix newlines in posts Too many newlines in a post #215 (PR Fix newlines and change title to be generated statically  #253)
• Add intermediate value to follows db Add intermediate value to follow database #247 (related to Receive ACCEPT & REJECT activities #178)

Doing:

• Accepting and rejecting follows Receive ACCEPT & REJECT activities #178 Send ACCEPT Activity in response to any follow received #177 (PR open Add initial approver service #250)

Blockers:

• Not really

Ross

Done:

• Research recommender systems #233 Research recommneder (with Noah)
• Create RSS scraper #227 RSS scraper service (PR Copy feedlark to rabble repo #248)

Doing:

• Add a rss feed as a follow #252 Adding an RSS feed to a follow (relates to RSS-to-ActivityPub converter #4)
• RSS-to-ActivityPub converter #4 RSS To AP
• Working on Add RSS/Atom feed for a user #5 next, RSS feed for user

Blockers:

• Nope

[CianLR]

Meeting on 04/12/2018.

Talked about DB limitations, possibly tracing next sprint.
Had a good chat.

Cian

Done:

• Add service for sending like activity #217 Sending a like activity (PR Move some activities functions to a shared library #249, Add Like activity and ability to send a like #254)

Doing:

• Add ability to receive Like activity #218 Receiving like
• Add Likes endpoint to skinny server #257 Adding endpoint to skinny
• Implement ID propagation for federated articles  #262 Shares article ID/URL across network

Blockers:

• None

Noah

Done:

• Find dataset(s) for building a user-to-follow recommender system #232 Find data-set (LiveJournal sparse thing)

Doing:

• Implement basic user-based collaborative filtering system #231 Implement user recommendation (been prototyping)

Blockers:

• Loading into DB is slow

Aaron

Done:

• Add initial approver service #250 Add initial approval

Doing:

• Send ACCEPT Activity in response to any follow received #177 Send ACCEPT response to follow.
• Receive ACCEPT & REJECT activities #178 Receive accept and reject

Blockers:

• Possible broken master with create/follow activities

Ross

Done:

• RSS-to-ActivityPub converter #4 RSS-To-AP (PRs Add a rss feed as a follow #252 Finish scraper #258)

Doing:

• UI changes for RSS follows and users #229 UI for follows (PR Add UI and client side code for rss follow #259)
• Add RSS/Atom feed for a user #5 RSS feed for user

Blockers:

• None

[CianLR]

Meeting on 06/12/2018.

Talked about extending feature freeze by a day. Tried to work out if we should merge the recommender system with Rabble or keep iterating with it outside the project.

Cian

Done:

• PR Add Likes endpoint to skinny server #257 Adding Likes endpoint to skinny
• PR Implement ID propagation for federated articles  #262 ID Prop for articles (relates to Add ability to receive Like activity #218)
• PR Add AP ID to database in Create Service #270 Adding the activity pub ID to database (relates to Add ability to receive Like activity #218)
• PR Normalise hostname in users util #274 Normalise hostnames

Doing:

• PR Add (most of) Receiving Like service #271 Receiving Likes (part 1) (relates to Add ability to receive Like activity #218)
• PR Add ability for author's server to distribute likes to followers #276 Receiving Likes (part 2) (relates to Add ability to receive Like activity #218)
• PR Add Likes and Liked collections to database #277 Likes collection (closes Create concept of Like collection #219)

Blockers:

• None

Noah

Done:

• Filter foreign posts from index page #213 Filter foreign posts
• No pagination/limit on number of posts on homefeed causes request timeout #263 Pagination limits
• "Unsatisfactory" collaborative filtering

Doing:

• Implement evaluation/testing of recommender system #230 Evaluation of colab filtering
• Implement basic user-based collaborative filtering system #231 Colab filtering
• Create homepage explaining Rabble #44 Homepage for Rabble

Blockers:

• Likes would be nice and helpful

Aaron

Done:

• Send ACCEPT Activity in response to any follow received #177 Sending accept to any follow
• Receive ACCEPT & REJECT activities #178 Receiving Accept and Reject activities

Doing:

• Allow users to edit accounts #216 Allow users to edit accounts (PR Add initial user update features #272, second PR incoming)
• Allow user to make their blog private #223 Allow user to make their blogs private.
• Allow private blogs to manually reply to follows requests #225 Replying to follow requests

Blockers:

• Not being able to count to 2 (PR Fix weird approver issue #279).
• Some growth pains within the project's code.

Ross

Done:

• UI changes for RSS follows and users #229 UI for follows (Add UI and client side code for rss follow #259)
• Add RSS/Atom feed for a user #5 RSS feed per user (PR Add a rss feed for rabble users #269)

Doing:

• ReSearch local and federated search #234 Research federated search

Blockers:

• None

[CianLR]

Meeting on 10/12/2018.

Ross presented his research on federated search.
Chatted about various approaches. Aaron had interesting idea about a search server.

Cian

Done:

• Add ability to receive Like activity #218 Ability to receive likes
• Create concept of Like collection #219 Create concept of Like collection
• Add Likes to frontend #220 Add likes to frontend
• Create JSON-LD normaliser #221 Create JSON-LD Normaliser

Doing:

• Bugfixes

Blockers:

• None

Noah

Done:

• Create homepage explaining Rabble #44 Create homepage explaining Rabble
• Implement basic user-based collaborative filtering system #231 Implement Collab filtering
• Implement evaluation/testing of recommender system #230 Evaluation for Collab filtering
• Add follow button in user bios #207 Add follow buttons

Doing:

• Some more collab filtering work, maybe some nice UI polishing.
• Add endpoint serving activitypub actors #236 Activity pub endpoint

Blockers:

• None

Aaron

Done:

• Allow users to edit accounts #216 Allow users to edit account (PRs Allow user to fully modify their account #280)
• Allow user to make their blog private #223 Allow users to make their blog private (PRs Add private users #284 Add private user follow requests and the ability to accept em #286)
• Allow private blogs to manually reply to follows requests #225 Replying to follow requests (PRs Add private user follow requests and the ability to accept em #286)

Doing:

• None ("playing overwatch")

Blockers:

• None

Ross

Done:

• ReSearch local and federated search #234 Research federated search

Doing:

• "Nothing!"

Blockers:

• None