Trouble in a workshop


There was some confusion at a workshop I attended where the presenter thought the meeting was resheduled, but the original time was still being used on the calendar, which caused many students including myself to be confused.


This week, as a mentor, I did attendance and slides as usual. I also went to a workshop where the original presenter didn’t show up, so I took charge to make sure everyone that showed up got what they wanted with attendance credit. I was the only mentor there so it would’ve been a massive headache to get all of them what they deserved if they were just pinging the help channel to no avail until the end of the workshop. As a student, I worked on shubble by testing and proving that my pull request works as intended. I did this by loading a test suite and filling it with data. Then, I stopped the worker and backend components independently, quickly starting each back up again, and upon looking at the log files, I could confirm that the cache was cleared based on messages I left in extra debugging lines of code I made. As for EzASM, I started on another issue, but the formatter is being really weird and the pull request involves so many files being deleted and added again, despite the fact that nothing changes, but it still creates an error.

Next week, as a mentor, I will do attendance and slides as usual. I will also follow up on any student that attended the Label Studio workshop and didn’t get the expected attendance, since I know that rainbow grades is quite delayed so they might not know they didn’t get credit for a while. I will also continue to push students to get better grades in the status updates, something that’s improved drastically since the mid-semester commit summaries, but still has room for higher grades. As a student, I will work to figure out why github and maven are being so strange. I suspected that there was a dependency issue since the imports weren’t happy about not finding what they wanted, but I’m still not sure why its deleted and adding so many files when it didn’t do that before. I will also find a new issue to work on for shubble.