Stockholm (Wikimania) 2019
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This page summarizes the action plan for the Kiwix Wikimania 2019 Hackathon.
Goals
Kiwix
Build
- Explain all the build system and its integration in the CI.
Lib
- Discuss (and hopefully decide) about tag/name management of zim file (https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-lib/issues/131 and associated issues)
- Discuss about the server integration (if not done since)
Tools
- Look the best tool to analyze activity of all kiwix's Github projects (try to use GrimoireLab) and deploy a first version to test this - Florent
Desktop
Android
- See about the wrapper about the Library/Server of kiwix-lib.
Hotspot
- Make Kiwix-Hotspot running in RPI0 - Renaud
- Prepare presentation - Kelson, Renaud
MWOffliner
WP1 Bot
- Make a Docker image of the update part - Kelson
- Try to convert Update -> Releases to Python - Travis
- Set up travis-ci for the bot's github project - Travis
- Develop scheduling infrastructure for update part - Travis
- Convert upload part to Python with tests - Travis
- Refactor/reorganize project code to maintain logical organization - Travis
- Develop plan for web app - Travis
Other scrapers
- Planning of FO requests - Kelson, Renaud, Joe
- Fixing many problems in zip2zim - Joe
- Revamping phets scraper - Joe
Other
- Cleaning of Kiwix wiki - Kelson
- Managing the logistic of the hackathon - Kelson
Achievements
Kiwix
Android
- Worked on integrating kiwix-lib changes to allow stack overflow ZIMs and others with redirects to work on Android. - Isaac
- Fixed various bugs relating to the bottom navigation bar. - Isaac
- Worked out a new way to build with local kiwix-lib. - Isaac
- Fixed various bugs with the home screen. - Siddharth
- Worked on integrating the wifi hotspot of kiwix-android with kiwix-serve. - Abdul and Siddharth
- Fixed bugs in the tab switcher. - Abdul
- Enabled Kiwix+LeakCanary to be tested using Android Robot (which already exposed some crashes in the app) - Julian
- Documented, tested and slightly improved the Custom Android App build process - Julian
- Started fixing some flaws in the app when it's run as a custom app. - Julian
- Found several bugs with the Notes feature - in custom apps it crashed, and on older devices the text is almost white on a white background - Julian
- Worked with Abdul to find the causes for 2 of the top crashes as reported in Android Vitals - Julian
- Did some testing using Android Monkey, too early to provide definitive analysis, I'm continuing to test using Monkey post hackathon and will report findings separately - Julian
- Prepare 2.5.3 release - Abdul
- Fixed duplicate zims on home screen and device tab - Abdul
- Fixed position of home screen download button for RTL layouts - Abdul
libkiwix
- Make a decision about how to test cutting-edge libkiwix against kiwix-android, here and here Kelson (talk)
- Introduce HTTP service in the libkiwix (from kiwix-serve) - Matthieu
Kiwix-hotspot
- Fixed homepage icon for some ZIMs (work around zimwriterfs bug) – renaud
- Released version 2.0.8
- Updated Support Files wiki (build instructions for pi0-4 on with newer kernel) - renaud
- Switched to latest raspbian image (buster) - renaud
- Added support for Pi4
Maintenance
- Fixing zimquarantine - Florent
Openzim
libzim
- Discuss a few possible paths of optimization of the libzim and open tickets: here and here. Kelson (talk)
- Introduce support of new Flavour Metadata Kelson (talk)
zim-tools
zimwriterfs
- Fix regression related to favicon redirect writing Kelson (talk), renaud
- Introduce flavour Medata writing Kelson (talk), renaud
- Introduced scraper parameter to set metadata - renaud
- Rewrite the Dockerfile to allowing copying the src code directly from the repository Kelson (talk), renaud
- New release 1.3.5 Kelson (talk)
- Fixed how relative URLs in CSS are rewritten
MWoffliner
- Fix problem with Wrong description Kelson (talk)
- Add support of new ZIM metadata Flavour Kelson (talk)
WP1 engine
- Many changes to make the project more newcomers friendly. Emmanuel
- Setup Docker & deploy it. Travis, Emmanuel
- Setup Codefactor & Codecoverage, Emmanuel
- Setup CI with automated testing, Travis
- Wrote upload tables code, with tests. Travis
- Setup rq job queueing/worker code for update/upload portion. Travis
- Implement update logs. Travis
- Setupe infrastructure for Web service (milestone 3). Travis
Gutenberg scraper
- Fixed scraper and make it zimfarm compatible
Zimfarm
- Added support for gutenberg scraper
- rescheduled everything with new aliased format
Others
- Make decision on Categories & Tags approach Renaud, Matthieu, Emmanuel
Organization
The hackathon took place at Stockholm University as part of Wikimania 2019.
Agenda
Arrival: Friday 9 August afternoon
Departure: Sunday 18 August.
Transportation
Hosting
We will be hosted at The Red Boat in Stockholm (map).
Room are reserved:
- Abdul + Siddharth: From Thursday 8th to Tuesday 20th
- Matthieu: From Friday 9th to Friday 16th
- Emmanuel + Renaud, Isaac + Joe, Florent: From Friday 9th to Sunday 18th
Julian and Travis have external accommodations.
Budget
- Hosting: CHF 3'651.74
- Transportation: CHF 4'749.23
- Food: CHF 1'987.56
- Varia (unplanned, incidentals, goodies, conference cost): CHF 2'254.-
- Total
- CHF 12'642.53