Re: [Xen-devel] Outreachy project - Xen Code Review Dashboard

["Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <jgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 00:47 -0700, Heather Booker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submitted an application for this code review dashboard and
> would love to keep working on the microtask once I get some
> more info. :)

Great! I answered your message, could you progress with the task?

> I also came up with a general idea of how the project might be
> split up - any feedback on this would be welcome! I wrote:
> 
> "As said by Jesus, the big picture of this project will be porting
> everything behind the current code review dashboard to use
> Grimoire Lab tools, from the current state of using
> MetricsGrimoire and custom scripts. I expect this would involve
> Perceval for analyzing data, and Grimoire Elk may be useful in
> further stages, or may be too general - this is something I would
> wish to explore.
> This project will also involve a migration from SQL to Elasticsearch
> - because I believe the relevant data is mostly / all available in
> places online, I am unsure whether this would need to be a direct
> migration. However, looking at the current SQL setup would be
> beneficial to understanding the desired format of the Elasticsearch
> indexes.
> I would love to dive into this project and have 3 main parts -
> getting
> data into ES, turning it into dashboard displays, and then fine
> tuning
> and perhaps augmenting the dashboard to improve its usefulness.
> Getting data into ES may seem simple but I believe that once it
> needs to be used for the dashboard, many realizations will pop up
> - thus I’d like to leave maybe 2-3 weeks for that first step, 6-7
> weeks
> for the visualizations (which will include querying the data), and
> the
> final 3 weeks for touch ups and improvements."

The plan could be sound, but would need some tweaks, once your skills
in Python are clear, which could be the main blocker for the first
stages.

> Does this sound like an accurate summary and reasonable timeline? 
> And I am guessing that from Jesus's involvement with the threads
> that Jesus would be the mentor, is that correct? :)

Yes, I would be ;-)

        Jesus.

> Thanks!
> 
> Heather
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Heather Booker <heather.j.booker@gmai
> l.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jesus,
> > 
> > While using the Elasticsearch python library
> > (https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/) to add mbox
> > messages to an index, I would get a UnicodeEncodeError:
> > "'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udca0' in position 767:
> > surrogates not allowed".
> > 
> > Investigating in Grimoire elk https://github.com/grim
> > oirelab/GrimoireELK/blob/96b00bc682485976104a6825ca63ae0
> > 8639deacc/grimoire_elk/elk/mbox.py#L200 seems to show that 
> > perhaps that tool instead uses Latin-1 encoding, but I found that
> > to then produce a serialization error (their custom error message:
> > "Unable to serialize %r (type: %s)"). I suppose this is because
> > now it's bytes; of course, converting back to string after encoding
> > just cycles back to the first error.
> > 
> > As somewhat of a Python newbie I don't really know how to tackle
> > this! My thought atm is to splice the offending character out
> > of the message. 
> > 
> > And to clarify, my understanding is that the final result of this
> > task
> > is an index of Xen data, with two types: commits and messages.
> > Each commit document should contain its original information
> > from git, plus the name of the branch it was developed in. And
> > should only the mbox messages which appear to be associated
> > with a specific commit exist in the final index? Is there some
> > key information in messages that is supposed to indicate the
> > association of a given commit with a git branch? I would be
> > grateful if you could specify the end goal a little more. :D
> > 
> > Thanks so much!
> > 
> > Heather
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona <jgb@bi
> > tergia.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 15:49 -0700, Heather Booker wrote:
> > > > Hi Jesus, 
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your reply!
> > > >
> > > > So about the task, instructions say after analyzing mboxes with
> > > > Perceval to
> > > > "store the resulting raw index in ElasticSearch" - what does
> > > raw
> > > > index mean?
> > > 
> > > In this context, I mean "storing the JSON documents produced by
> > > Perceval in an ElasticSearch index, as such". ElasticSearch
> > > stores JSON
> > > documents, so it is just uploading the output of Perceval to it.
> > > 
> > > > In terms of figuring out the elasticsearch structure, do I want
> > > an
> > > > index
> > > > (xen-devel mbox) with a type (message) and each object from the
> > > > perceval
> > > > output to be one document? Or should it be more fine-grained?
> > > 
> > > Exactly.
> > > 
> > > Saludos,
> > > 
> > >         Jesus.
> > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Heather
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona <jgb
> > > @biter
> > > > gia.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 16:43 -0700, Heather Booker wrote:
> > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd love to work on the Code Review Dashboard project for
> > > this
> > > > > round
> > > > > > of Outreachy.
> > > > >
> > > > > Great!!
> > > > >
> > > > > > Are the steps outlined
> > > > > > here http://markmail.org/message/7adkmords3imkswd still the
> > > first
> > > > > > contribution you'd like to see?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes.
> > > > >
> > > > > > So is this a project that has been worked on in previous
> > > rounds
> > > > > of
> > > > > > GSOC/Outreachy also?
> > > > > > If so is there a place to find links to the previous
> > > participants
> > > > > > blogs? :)
> > > > >
> > > > > No. We had one participation at some point, but couldn't even
> > > start
> > > > > for
> > > > > personal reasons. There are some people considering working
> > > on this
> > > > > for
> > > > > this next round of Outreachy, however. You'll see their
> > > messages in
> > > > > this mailing list.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Should questions about how the specifications/completion of
> > > the
> > > > > > microtask be addressed to
> > > > > > IRC or this list? If IRC, which channel - #xen-opw or
> > > #metrics-
> > > > > > grimoire? On that note, I'm 
> > > > > > curious why #metrics-grimoire is the listed channel on the
> > > > > project
> > > > > > page - are main contributors
> > > > > > involved in both projects? Or is it just because the Xen
> > > > > dashboard
> > > > > > doesn't have a channel?
> > > > >
> > > > > The code review is for the Xen project, but it is done with
> > > (I
> > > > > mean,
> > > > > the ssoftware used for it is) GrimoireLab, which for
> > > historical
> > > > > reasons
> > > > > uses the #metrics-grimoire channel. That's why it is likely
> > > that
> > > > > you
> > > > > find somebody from the project there.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you have questions, and find me around in IRC, please ping
> > > me.
> > > > > If
> > > > > I'm not available, please send an email message.
> > > > >
> > > > > Saludos,
> > > > >
> > > > >         Jesus.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Heather
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