Sprint 4 Sprint Log

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Meeting on day/month/year.

General notes about meeting.

Cian

Done:

• Item a
• Item b

Doing:

• 1
• 2
• 3

Blockers:

• blocker I
• blocker II

Noah

Done:

• Item a
• Item b

Doing:

• 1
• 2
• 3

Blockers:

• blocker I
• blocker II

Aaron

Done:

• Item a
• Item b

Doing:

• 1
• 2
• 3

Blockers:

• blocker I
• blocker II

Ross

Done:

• Item a
• Item b

Doing:

• 1
• 2
• 3

Blockers:

• blocker I
• blocker II

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Meeting on 28/01/2019

Happy New Year!

Sprint Planning Notes

• "Whats the plan?"
• Figuring out templating
  • Weirder than we thought
  • Split into two categories
• Discussing specifics of search
  • tf-idf might not be super similar
  • Create a simple boolean search service we can expand on
• Federated search & reccomendation have similar concepts
• Docker Compose
  • Using different files for sport & profit - thanks @clr.
  • Create a magic config file that does magic.
• Make a specific ActivityPub bit work with an outside service

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Meeting on 30/1/2019.

General Stuff

• Open a bug for need to login after register.
• Going to have to make a seperate directory for each version of the search service, and any other module that we duplicate.
• Text only meeting during the weekend.
• Prep some questions for the activitypub meeting.

Cian

Done:

• Prevent blank username login, Remove ability to try to log in as a blank username #265
• Register over user prevented, Registering over an existing user is allowed #268

Doing:

• Giving a user feedback for already liked articles, Give user feedback for already liked article #302
  Ugly and awkward to implement.
• Found a solution for Users database should have host = null and not host = "" for local users #278

Noah

Doing:

• Researching how others are applying node similarly metrics to directed graphs. Found this, which has the following, which sounds good maybe: The common neighbors predictor is the number of neighbors, or out-degree
  neighbors in our directed network, that are shared by nodes vi and vj .

• Unfollow buttons. Did some frontend work (show Unfollow button if already followed boolean = true), but the c2s functionality isn't there yet.

Aaron

Done:

• Search microservice boilerplate Add initial search service #323

Doing:

• Working on fixing Viewing the user page of a user who does not exist results in a pop-up error #301, found a nil pointer deference

Ross

Doing:

• PR out (Send dates & bio from server to client and update ui #324) for propagating dates and bios and images Propagate dates of articles & bios to frontend #298
• Search UI - Create search UI #310

Going to move on to simple search and the plumbing after that.

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Meeting on 04/02/2019.

Cian

Done

• Done two PRs related to already liked articles(Give user feedback for already liked article #302): Add is_liked result to DB posts requests #325, Fix bug with FIND in posts DB #326
• Went to FOSDEM. Rating 6/9

Doing:

• Continuing on Give user feedback for already liked article #302

Noah

Done

• Learning SQL JOINS for Change Follow button to Unfollow button when a user already follows someone #317

Doing

• Change Follow button to Unfollow button when a user already follows someone #317: Almost done, trying to make frontend lineup with the backend
• Create new c2s endpoint for unfollows #318
• Went to FOSDEM, Rating 23/26. Room for improvement.

Ross

Done

• Propagate dates Propagate dates of articles & bios to frontend #298
• Couple of bug fixes
• Went to FOSDEM. Rating 1/0. Undefined.

Doing

• PR Add search bar and clean up header #329, finishing half of UI research, half of issue Create search UI #310
• Text search Implement a simple text search #309

Aaron

Done

• Viewing the user page of a user who does not exist results in a pop-up error #301, fixed in Add better error handling to per user feed #327

Doing

• Implement a simple text search #309 not visable fron front end, exploring backend
• Annoying Services crashing because they start before logger #275 (changed a lot of code), PR Fix grpc timeouts and standard grpc connections #330
• Moving on to search (index and actual search)

The gang goes to FOSDEM

ActivityPub

• Spam and gaming-the-system are serious issues.
  Mastadon tried to implement trending hashtags and got backlash.
  Look into securing recommendations.
• No reason why we shouldn't use a standard federated search method.
  Research it this sprint, find a paper to read and talk about in review.
• Discoverability: CJ (author of gofed) discussed with @iandioch.
  Interested in servers discovery & AP extensions.
  Webfinger based ways to talk about topics across ActivityPub.

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Status Update on 08/02/2019

Aaron

Done

• Services crashing because they start before logger #275
• Initial search stuff

Doing

• Hoping to have search stuff done by the end of the weekend, want to add stemming, evaluation and a benchmark
• Will dive straight into Mastadon -> Rabble or w/e
• Will remove bad_order from Fix grpc timeouts and standard grpc connections #330

Ross O'Sullivan

Doing:

• Simple Text Search Implement a simple text search #309
• Integrate Search UI Integrate search UI with the search microservices #311

Done:

• Add search bar and clean up header #329

Noah

Doing:

• Working on similarity metric Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'common neighbours' similarity metric #304 in a Jupyter notebook

Cian

Done:

• Unliking (Give user feedback for already liked article #302, PR Add Unlike button to frontend #332)
• Local Sessions issue (Save logged in state to local storage #242, PR Save logged in user to local storage #334)

Doing:

• Working on the templating issue (Template support #15)

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Status Update on 11/02/2019

General Stuff

• Noah found a nice link that mastadon has with all the extra specs (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/development/activitypub/)

Cian

Doing:

• Templating issues (Template support #15)
• Started work on config file for docker compose (Create config file for instance hosts #45)

Done:

• PR open, adds a config file for react, for changing constants (Add JSON config file for chump #339)

Noah

Doing:

• Unfollow buttons on the frontend (Change Follow button to Unfollow button when a user already follows someone #317)
• Add a common neighbor similarity metric (Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'common neighbours' similarity metric #304)

Ross

Done:

• Simple Text Search (Implement a simple text search #309)
• Done some refactor (Move all skinny handlers to a seperate file from main #337)
• Integrate search UI (Integrate search UI with the search microservices #311, PR Add client model for search #338)

Doing:

• Adding a bit more search UI, like creating a user thingy. (Create search UI #310)

Aaron

Done:

• Search Indexing and actually using the index (Integrate search UI with the search microservices #311, Index content #316)
• Merged Fix grpc timeouts and standard grpc connections #330

Doing:

• Will investigate mastadon integration, Be able to follow a blog from Mastodon #9.
• Fix bugs from Sprint 3 feedback.
• Maybe do more on more on search, or help somebody else with their issues.

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Meeting 14-02-2019

Cian

Done

• PR Add docker-compose generation from template #345

Doing

• Been working on Allow Ctrl-C of build #245, instance host config file.
• Finish off Template support #15, Create config file for instance hosts #45
• Will work on initial version of per-user CSS.
• Bug needs more investigation

Noah

Done

• Finished unfollow button Change Follow button to Unfollow button when a user already follows someone #317
• Merged Add jupyter notebook with common neighbours metric on football dataset #342 (Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'common neighbours' similarity metric #304), Ross followed up

Doing

• Would like to close Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'common neighbours' similarity metric #304, Create new c2s endpoint for unfollows #318, Allow link predictor to choose method of prediction based on an env var. #315
  Some work done in Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'common neighbours' similarity metric #304 and Create search index #308
• Working on Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'graph distance' similarity metric #306 first
• Register "this user viewed this blogpost" in database #312 and Add system to recommend users to follow based on 'graph distance' similarity metric #306 in todo, maybe a lot of work

Blocked By

• Allow link predictor to choose method of prediction based on an env var. #315 requires the config stuff that I don't know if Cian's done yet

Ross

Done

• Read Noah's Paper (one discussed in Recommend users to follow based on paper 'OWA operator based link prediction ensemble for social network' #313)
• Got older (Happy Birthday)

Doing

• A bit of work Create search UI #310
• Share search indexes w/ Recommender #320 is not possible probably
• Will work on some issues brought up in feedback

Maybe take an issue from Noah, maybe #302, #306

Aaron

Done

• Closing Implement best match search #331 (Added because it felt like this was needed)
• Added cancel button No cancel button for edit profile page #343

Doing

• Mastodon integration
• Filling edit profile - Jennifer's feedback

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Meeting 18/02/2019

• Created overview of slides
• Testing & bugfixing session