SSB Maintenance Dev Diary - cel

@mixmix invited me to do some paid work with the SSB Maintenance Open Collective fiscally hosted by Protozoa Coop [%YaXcrzj...]. He suggested working on documentation in particular.

I would like to use this thread as a dev diary for my work in this area.

I will take input on what I should document or work on - in this thread or separately.

I am considering maintenance work as mainly that which just keeps existing things running, rather than developing new features and applications. So the scope includes:

• fixing bugs and security issues
• fixing breakage caused by changes in the SSB stack or network conditions
• writing or improving documentation
• performing updates and releases
• keeping public servers online, e.g. @ssb.celehner.com and *.scuttlebot.io.

Most of my code contributions to SSB are applications built on ssb-server/ssb-client. I will focus on maintaining those, as I am primarily responsible for them. I am also willing to help maintain other SSB things.

2019-08-16 Mitigated a ssb-server connection issue, for ssb-npm and sbotc [%csntvhX...]. 4hrs

2019-08-19 Invoiced for the above. 1hr

2019-08-21 Started publishing dev diary [%nnWvFSS...]. 1hr

@cel you're awesome <3

Thanks @mixmix :)

2019-08-22 I started going through git-ssb issues and addressing some of them. 3hrs

• fixed a git-ssb-web issue. published v2.11.6. %E1sRJ70... %AjzWeTn....
• fixed two patchfoo issues. %v0ebkYu...
• submitted a fix for ssb-clingy. %AoF+qnM...
• updated a scuttlebot.io documentation page in response to issues by @JoeyHess. %t7RIzL7... %A2JxofE... %whYzI9p...
• closed or followed up on various other issues. %2IaQB/t... %61tDmXR... %wuehFK+... %uqLa+kJ... %I58lGZJ... %c0pu62/... %hn/jNsr...

2019-08-24, 2019-08-25 git-ssb-web maintenance. 3hrs

• git-ssb-web: fixed some issues and released v2.11.7 %HQR/uM1...
• git-ssb-web: followed up on and/or closed some issues. %crbf1OM... %WBQIu4b... %DkSJl0Q... %R7382yW... %Lz6XX/p... %hKy8xWa... %8+vKenB... %ncInZuf...
• git.scuttlebot.io: fixed caching problem. %SFE1RV7...

2019-08-26 Invoiced

2019-08-27 ssb-npm, git-ssb: responding to issues, debugging. 1hr

• %YcVAB+V... %S0xM7BY... %FvMjvQV... %6RV/Qq3...

2019-08-28 maintenance of git-ssb and various modules. 1hr

• git-ssb: fix fetching some repos. %mnZ5WbA...
• Add muxrpc help to ssb-publishguard and ssb-repl. %bUPdU5a... %QPJMEnh...

I lost some momentum on this lately, through travelling and stuff. I would like to do more maintenance work and could use some feedback on how to proceed. Thread: %UTC4QRp...

Resuming regular programming. I acknowledge the feedback in %UTC4QRp... about making git-ssb/ssb-npm/patchfoo easy to install. That will take some design work and I am not yet settled on how to do it. I have also been working on a new project, not yet announced.

#dev-diary

2019-11-05, 2019-11-06 Wiki editing. 1 hour. %N6Be9B4... %AYWdyBA...
2019-11-08 ssb-npm testing. ½ hour. %WvMpkox...
2019-11-10 Invoiced
2019-11-14 Activity graph static rewrite. 4 hours. %8h3q1NO...
2019-11-15 Activity graph colorization. 1 hour. %oFONYF7...

2019-11-17 Activity graph partial interactivity. 1.7 hours.
2019-11-18 Activity graph interactivity. 3.3 hours. %jaXF+XB.... Invoiced

For SSBC rather than Maintenance:

2019-11-18 Drafted session submission for LibrePlanet 2020. 1¼ hours. %7m3HAIT...
2019-11-19 Further drafting LibrePlanet submission and session outline. 2½ hours. %IH0pVq1...

2019-11-20
Maintenance: ssb-npm design and debugging. 1¾ hours. %j+H0xnN... %FexWpM9...
SSBC: Completed Libreplanet session submission. ¼ hour. %uOekTnv...

Not billed:
2019-11-21, 2019-11-22
Implemented SSB-Wikimedia bridge. %Hv2kznL...

SSBC: Invoiced

2019-11-29 ssb-npm maintenance. 3 hours. %fbkx5pY...

2019-12-02
installers/permissions design draft. ¾ hours.

2019-12-08
ssb-npm maintenance. ¾ hours. %bNM85ef... %B9s0pl1...
installers/permissions design published. 1½ hours. %07VekPq...

Invoiced

2019-12-16 git-ssb installation script. 1¾ hours. %uVdBiIE...

2019-12-20 ssbc.github.io maintenance. 4½ hours.

Fixed broken links and updated stale content. Added redirects for migrated pages and modules. Incorporated changes made in gh-pages to files generated using ssbc-sitegen.

• Updated ssbc-sitegen. %WsFEFnh...
• Updated ssbc/docs. %orerxNY...
• Updated ssb-server/gh-pages. %kUjs1fV...
• Initiated inquiry about ssb-blobs documentation. %gxnr7Cg...
• Migrated repos to git-ssb:
  • https://github.com/ssbc/docs → %DcALX8h...
  • https://github.com/ssbc/ssbc-sitegen → %DZlKKOL...

Previously: %8bm2BEZ... %2UMi2xv... %tEHog9/...

Invoiced %bihRPbp...

Preparing git-ssb pkg packaging, for binary releases.
2019-12-29 4 hours. %ZRgr/d+...
2019-12-30 3 hours. %vA9yADj...

Invoiced %TTSGhv0...

2020-01-03 Continued git-ssb packaging. 4¼ hours.

pkg'd binaries for git-ssb are ready. Next is to make a shell script to pick the appropriate one and install it.

Also, I found and fixed a bug in ssb-npm-registry which has been causing ssb-npm installations to fail.

Packages updated:

git-ssb binary release:
2020-01-04 Testing. %4PcwHhP... %yjDEOXc… 2¾ hours.
2020-01-06 License and copyright detection, report [%LL6rKfi...], and updates [%E+BWdBw... %aS4ryli... %GnzXAR2... %CjFcW//... %Rea/QD4... %QweVxHE... %HfuRAo7... %oeTZ9rY...]. Release [%9/2M5lU...]. 5 hours.
2020-01-07 IPFS mirror [%36dNnze...]. Alternative installer [%rlz3gdn...]. ½ hour.

For SSBC-OC (non-maintenance):

LibrePlanet session preparation. 15 hours. %2ZCvorg... %ypHLMuR...

2020-02-24 ¾h
2020-02-25 1⅔h
2020-02-26 1⅓h
2020-02-28 1h
2020-03-02 ¾h
2020-03-03 6h
2020-03-04 3½h

LP2020 slides submission. 8 hours. %73twWq+...
2020-03-05 2⅔h
2020-03-06 5⅓h

LP2020 presentation completed. 1¾ hours.
2020-03-09 Updated slides. ¼h. %caTR+U/...
2020-03-12 Practiced talk. ¾h
2020-03-15 Delivered talk. ¾h. %GuD07rh...

2020-03-29 Invoiced SSBC %rpWR2ZH...

2020-05-15 Maintenance: released git-ssb v2.8.0. 5 hours. %bvibiX3...

2020-06-11 Added source footer to ssb-viewer. 1 hour. %sVBrUe0...

2020-07-11 Debugged RangeError in aligned-block-file. 1 hour. %m4NgGGF...

2020-07-05 Drafting security notice. 1 hour.
2020-08-12 Published security notice. 1 hour. %KjTMSIY...
2020-08-17 Testing permission issue. 1 hour. %B1cuRQb...

2020-08-20 Updated chloride module. 1 hour. %omttl96...

• Assisted migration of repo to SSBC organization
• Merged outstanding PRs and published minor version

2020-10-06 Fixed crash in ssb-links module, and published advisory about it (2020-10-09). 1 hour. %5JJIwku...

2020-11-05 Added JS plugins to dev.scuttlebutt.nz. ¾ hour.

2020-12-15 Invoiced