Reminder for the upcoming call: 12 March 16:00 UTC: https://everytimezone.com/s/a80c98c6 Video link: https://meet.jit.si/apache-annotator
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:41 PM Gerben <ger...@treora.com.invalid> wrote: > If it indeed works for everyone, we could follow Nick’s suggestion and > default to run regularly on Thursdays 16:00 London time (= 16:00 UTC > this month, 17:00 UTC from April onwards). > > So unless there are requests for an alternative, the next meeting would > be 12 March 16:00 UTC. <https://everytimezone.com/s/a80c98c6> > > Note that in at least the USA, clocks jump this weekend already, so e.g. > in California it will be at 9am this month, then 8am. In India, no clock > jumps (great idea), so it will be 21:30 this month, then 20:30. If I am > not making errors, that is — check with your local clockarian. > > Below are a few notes from last week’s call (apologies for the delay) > and today’s call. > > ====== > > Notes of last week’s call, 27 Feb 2020 21:00 UTC > > Present: Jake, Randall, Christoph, Gerben > > - Jake started writing API documentation for the project’s current code > (for exported functions), plans to submit a pull request soon. > > - Randall intends to open a vote tonight for the initial release. > > - Christoph is interested in contributing to project aspects like its > documentation and website. > > - Gerben made a pull request to add a text highlighter package to the repo > > - The Chrome browser just shipped a feature to scroll to and highlight a > text fragment given in the address bar: > <https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment>. It could be worthwile to > implement this spec as a polyfill (see issue #60 > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/issues/60>), create a > test suite around it, and/or create a browser extension that adds > support in other browsers (which could be based on Gerben’s Precise > Links extension: <https://github.com/Treora/precise-links>). > > - Question: How far is annotator from being ready for outside developer > implementation? > Responses: Some modules can already be used, but notably this system > is not a complete package such as Annotator.js. The current approach is > rather to build small modules for converting between JSON annotation > objects/‘descriptors’ and Range objects in a DOM (in both directions: > ‘anchoring’ & ‘describing’). > - Downsides for using it right now: the feature set is limited (the > focus is only on TextQuoteSelectors, and it does not do fuzzy matching), > the quality is still mediocre (it may fail to anchor in various > situations), and the API may well change in the future. > - Upsides that may already make it valuable: it returns multiple > matches and its design is asynchronous, which could be important when > dealing with large documents. > > ======= > > Notes of today’s call, 5 March 2020 21:00 UTC > > Present: Gerben, Randall > > - The vote process was started but done incorrectly (it should first > have been only on the dev-list); moreover due to bad timing less than > three PPMC members managed to respond their required +1s. > > - Randall will open a new vote today. > > - Two PRs were merged; as we will run a vote again anyway these can > directly be included in the release. > > - Gerben will tweak the demo code to use the newly added highlighter > package. > > ====== > > > On 05/03/2020 16:42, Randall Leeds wrote: > > 4pm London right now is 8am here in California, 11am on the east coast of > > the US. > > > > That would work well for me in the future! > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 04:38 TB Dinesh <din...@servelots.com> wrote: > > > >> That's 3am or 5am in the dev hots in the valley. Benjamin is likely up > and > >> wide eyed by 7am. > >> > >> On Thu, 5 Mar, 2020, 17:40 Nick Kew, <n...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>> On 5 Mar 2020, at 09:39, TB Dinesh <din...@servelots.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> If we do weekly calls, we can alternate week time that suits > india/east > >>> and > >>>> other the west. > >>> When I worked in a team that spanned Silicon Valley and Bangalore, > >>> we had weekly meetings mostly at 4pm UK time - which is either > >>> 15:00 or 16:00 GMT according to Daylight Saving Time. > >>> Nice for us in Europe, and also worked for the US and India. > >>> > >>> Maybe that would fix things for you and me, if not for any prospective > >>> participants in Far East timezones? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Nick Kew > >>> >
