Maximizing Sustainable Yields – One Community Weekly Progress Update #536

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week, helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Edwin dedicated his efforts to reviewing pull requests (PRs) and advancing the development of the HGN application as a member of the Dev Team, primarily focusing on Frontend functionality. Alongside reviewing multiple PRs, Edwin fixed a bug related to email authentication, ensuring that users can only authenticate with an exact email match. To achieve this, Edwin modified the regex expression passed in the findOne() function in the backend to enforce exact email matching for authentication. Additionally, Edwin implemented a new functionality that allows tracking of deadline updates for tasks. This involved introducing a new property called “deadlineCount” in the backend task model, which keeps track of the number of times the estimated hours for a task have been updated. Whenever the estimated hours change and differ from the previous value, the deadlineCount is incremented. This information is then fetched in the TeamMemberTask component and displayed in the top right of the progress time bar. This week Edwin reviewed a total of 6 PR’s: #412, #920, #926, #927, #928, #934 Images showing this progress are below.

Papia Sharmin (Full Stack Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Papia Sharmin made several notable contributions to our project. Firstly, she implemented a new feature that displays a message to users if they don’t have any other team members in their team. This enhancement was added to the “Add My Team” filter task. Additionally, Papia introduced a “View Suggestions” button on the Task Edit Suggestion page for the new task. This button allows users to easily access and review suggested edits. Furthermore, she incorporated the functionality to approve tasks within the Task Edit Modal by implementing the “Approved” button. Furthermore, Papia made important modifications to the system, enabling administrators to view the notification count on the dashboard upon logging in. This change provides administrators with quick access to essential notifications. Lastly, she diligently reviewed Pull Request #864 and provided her approval. Her attention to detail and thorough review process greatly contribute to the project’s progress. Below are some images related to this work.

Xiao Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao focused on various tasks and demonstrated her commitment to addressing project priorities. She devoted her attention to resolving the issue identified by Jae, which involved creating Shadow Consistency for the Dashboard (PR878). She diligently worked on the code, ensuring that all tests were successfully passed to meet the desired outcome. Additionally, Xiao dedicated time to enhance the user experience by making styling modifications to the search name feature on the Badge Management page. She promptly pushed these changes to the same PR for further review and collaboration. In another task, she successfully implemented the rounding of hour numbers to two digits by incorporating the “toFixed(2)” function into both the timeEntryController.js file for the hoursLogged variable and the userHelper.js file for the timeSpent variable. She proactively followed the link provided by Aishwarya to access the required environment variables for enabling Gmail API, which was essential for conducting thorough testing. Lastly, Xiao actively contributed to the team by reviewing PR898, PR890, and PR899, providing valuable feedback to her peers. See images supporting this below.

Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiao improved the loading speed of WBS pages by focusing on several key tasks. Firstly, he addressed a freeze problem caused by the <ReactTooltip> component, which resulted in browser freezing. To resolve this issue, he implemented a solution in which ReactTooltip.rebuild() is executed on the parent component (<WBSTasks>) to consolidate all tooltips of the child component (<Task>) into a single <div>. This significantly reduced the number of <div> elements created. Secondly, Xiao optimized the logic in the allTasksReducer.js file. Previously, the application sent multiple requests for different levels of tasks, leading to inconsistent response ordering. Additionally, when a level 0 request was made, the app would inadvertently remove tasks of other levels if their responses arrived earlier. Xiao addressed this problem by introducing a fetchedData buffer in the state. The response data now occupies a fixed position in the buffer based on its level, and a sortByNum function combines and sorts all the response data into taskItems. Furthermore, he simplified the code by allowing the sortByNum function to handle the sorting for all tasks, eliminating the need to find the index of the mother task and insert at a specific position for certain cases. He also temporarily fixed an issue where the addTask functionality failed to update the hasChild property of the parent task. In the future, this issue needs to be resolved in a subsequent pull request. XiaoW also made modifications to the allTasksReducer.test.js test file to accommodate the newly added property in the allTasksReducer.js state. He disabled certain test cases and made necessary adjustments, considering that some code in the previous version of allTasksReducer.js was solely intended to pass the test file without offering functional value. Lastly, Xiao removed redundant sorting logic in the <WBSTasks> component. See supporting images below.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report. Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842. Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation. He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents. Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. While some work remains in terms of writing permissions and conducting tests, Nathan’s progress demonstrates his dedication and meticulous approach to permissions management. The pictures below show some of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nida made several updates to the codebase. She added min and max attributes to the endDate and startDate components in order to ensure that the End Date is always later than the Start Date when using the datepicker. Nida also dedicated time to researching validation techniques that would allow the end date to be later than the start date while still allowing manual input. She made efforts to incorporate a suggestion provided by KurtisIvey on the pull request for this task. To visually indicate validation errors, she applied CSS styling to make the border of both fields red. Lastly, she conducted research and successfully implemented sorting for Members, with a focus on giving higher priority to names starting with the inputted letter, followed by other names that include the letter. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Xiaoyu Chen (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xiaoyu diligently worked on refining the software interface. Her initial plan involved the introduction of a clear button and a dropdown menu, but she soon realized the consequential heavy reliance on the ‘reactstrap’ API. To circumvent this, she intelligently altered her approach and substituted the button with radio options, thus enhancing user-friendliness while simultaneously reducing API dependency. This constructive change further facilitated the ‘handleMoveOptions’ function to reset content based on the selected value, improving the system’s interaction with the past four weeks’ summaries. Throughout this process, Xiaoyu appreciated the insightful feedback from her colleagues. Leon Zhuang contributed by identifying typographical and capitalization inconsistencies, while Xiao Tan and OAkinbode suggested repositioning the Tab feature for a superior user experience. Taking their advice onboard, Xiaoyu adjusted the location of the Tab toggle within the handleMove functions, leading to improved user interaction. After implementing these improvements, she turned her focus on resolving bugs associated with media and Dropbox links. Xiaoyu’s initial step involved changing the weekly summary name within the create user profile function. She then developed an efficient solution to substitute the ‘mediaUrl’ in the summary submissions by incorporating a ‘GoogleDocLink’ into the ‘getWeeklySummaries’ function, a modification she intends to execute in the immediate future. Nevertheless, a minor hiccup occurred when she failed to switch between the software branches, resulting in a slight mix-up. Showing resilience, Xiaoyu successfully resolved this by segregating the issues into two separate branches, thereby maintaining the functionality and integrity of the codebase. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Sneha M Madle (Software Engineer) completed their 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sneha began by examining the HGN Bug list and subsequently undertook the task of addressing a medium priority bug, specifically focusing on rectifying the assign badge functionality within the user profile. Sneha performed a thorough investigation into the workings of the assign badge functionality, resulting in the identification of areas requiring code modifications. Following this discovery, Sneha made the necessary code changes. However, the initial attempts proved unsuccessful, prompting Sneha to perform another in-depth analysis of the code. As a result, it became apparent that a considerable amount of additional code alterations were still necessary, and Sneha worked diligently on implementing them. Moreover, Sneha also dedicated time to reviewing several pull requests during the course of the week. The pictures below show this work.

“Sola” Olusola Akinbode (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sola assumed responsibility for the development of a project aimed at implementing a feature that enables administrators and team leaders to receive team weekly summary reports via email from their respective groups. Sola addressed a bug encountered while adding new group members or users and initiated the implementation of CRUD operations using Redux as the initial approach. Additionally, Axios calls were utilized to synchronize data between Redux and MongoDB, resulting in improvements in loading times. These tasks are currently in progress within Pull Request 838. Look below for pictures of this work.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Lawrence diligently pursued the investigation of an issue involving rare occurrences within the blue square system. Specifically, the system exhibited behavior where deleted blue squares would occasionally be reassigned hours after deletion and trigger multiple email notifications. To address this, Lawrence extensively studied the blue square system’s mailer system, aiming to comprehend its inner workings. He meticulously logged and tested numerous blue squares in an effort to reproduce the issue. Despite thorough efforts, Lawrence was unable to pinpoint the root cause as all system components appeared to be functioning as intended. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed her 2nd week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Alyx worked to grasp all the nuances of the team, meticulously reviewing their tasks to ensure they had completed everything as required. She also helped with data entry by learning and beginning the process of importing the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan recipes into the Master spreadsheet. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Olawunmi Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support) completed her 2nd week helping with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project. This week, Ola acquired new skills including data entry, uploading website pictures into spreadsheets, and inputting data for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and “Transition Kitchen Recipe build Out from the Master Recipes and 3-Day Menu Blocks” documents. Additionally, Ola diligently organized folders for HGN, NON-HGN, and PR team members in the designated location for the collage and HGN Website Blog. Ola also actively participated by providing comments and responses on team members’ Google Docs. Pictures of some of this work are below.