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Monday, 17 August in Dunedin

Masterton has to be finished and signed off before I sit down with Adam on Monday, and everything else this week bends around that.

What I am on this week

Masterton finished and signed off

NowIn progress

I am in front of Adam twice on Monday and the site needs to be done, signed off and behaving itself before I get there. His BugHerd pass is answered and the 12/08 round went in, but the te reo request he raised on 11/08 is still sitting there untouched, four EXO-L questions are back with him unanswered, and the whole thing is still living on mfc.ube.ph rather than his own domain, so none of this is finished yet.

Ben

Carrying it
Ben is carrying this
Due
Due today

Team updates on Masterton finished and signed off

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AwareHub is not fit to launch yet

NowIn progress

The parity gate ran against AwareHub on 12/08 and found a list I would rather it had not. The rebuild has no privacy policy, no terms and no cookies policy while the old site publishes all three, there is no sitemap and no robots file, and forty four posts including Lisa's Sky News and Today Show interviews currently have nowhere to land. Three of the fixes I promised in the 10/08 letter are still not on staging either, so that part is on me. A psychiatry practice cannot go live like that, and I would much rather we found it than Gordana did.

Ben

Carrying it
Ben is carrying this

Team updates on AwareHub is not fit to launch yet

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This page, live and used daily

NowIn progress

The point of this page is that I send one link and everybody can see where my head is, without me writing the same message five times and without three people asking me the same question on Slack an hour apart. It only works if you actually put your updates in it, so I would far rather it was a bit rough and used than polished and ignored.

Ben

Carrying it
Ben is carrying this
Due
Was due Friday, 14 August, 3 days ago

Team updates on This page, live and used daily

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Get the last Joomla sites off Joomla

SoonIn progress

We still have client sites sitting on Joomla that we inherited rather than chose, and every one of them is a support cost and a security problem, which KSHE proved in June when SiteGround flagged malicious code on it and Jep spent two days working out it was nothing. The list underneath is what I can actually name today and I want it ordered and dated rather than left as a general intention, so if you know of a site I have missed, add it here rather than assuming I already have it.

Ben

Carrying it
Jep is carrying this

Team updates on Get the last Joomla sites off Joomla

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The Mint platform decision

SoonWaiting

Shayne is shrinking Mint from around six hundred clients down to a premium core of a hundred, and the three or four hundred sites that fall out of that are the ones we would run behind the Mint Essentials name, which makes it the biggest thing in front of us by a long way. It comes down to a room in Christchurch with Nick and Mint's developers, who have built their whole careers on SilverStripe and are not going to be talked out of it by me turning up enthusiastic, so what I owe them is evidence rather than opinion. Nothing migrates until that session has happened.

Ben

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Ben is carrying this

Team updates on The Mint platform decision

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Booked wired into a real clinic

BackgroundWaiting

Booked is built as far as M11 and the entire lot is now sitting in one pull request waiting for me to approve it, which is a fairly silly place for six weeks of work to be parked. What I actually want is it pointed at a real clinic's Cliniko with a live Supabase behind it, because until it has run against real data none of us knows what it does. Not urgent this week, but it gets less useful the longer it sits.

Ben

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Ben is carrying this

Team updates on Booked wired into a real clinic

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Goals, and what we get when they land

Every one of these has a reward attached. If it lands by the date on it, the reward happens.

Masterton finished before Monday

Adam's list closed out, the te reo question actually answered rather than politely acknowledged, the site on mastertonfootclinic.co.nz instead of mfc.ube.ph, and nothing left for me to talk my way around in the room.

When this lands: Merienda for the whole Balanga floor on Monday afternoon, and I will have mine here in the Dunedin rain and be openly jealous about it.

due today

Target

The last three Joomla sites gone

KSHE, Speedy Floor Sanding and Capelli all live on Astro, and the Joomla logins deleted rather than left sitting in a password manager for somebody to find in two years. This date is one I have picked rather than one a client has given us, so it moves if a client needs it to.

When this lands: Friday afternoon off for everybody who touched one of them, and lunch delivered to the office the day the last one goes live.

due in 44 days

Target

AwareHub fit to launch

Privacy policy, terms and cookies back on the site, a sitemap and a robots file in place, the forty four orphaned posts given somewhere to live, and the three fixes I promised on 10/08 genuinely on staging where Lisa and Gordana can see them.

When this lands: Lunch delivered to the Balanga office the day it clears, and nobody has to sit in a meeting explaining to Gordana why her privacy policy went missing.

due in 10 days

Target

Booked running against a real clinic

One clinic's Cliniko key, a live Supabase behind it, and a full week of real data, so we find out what the thing actually does rather than what the tests say it does. Manual dispatch mode means the only thing we need to onboard a clinic is that key, so there is no good excuse left.

When this lands: Friday afternoon off for the build team, and dinner out in Balanga for whoever sits with the first clinic through that first week, because it will be the messy one.

due in 44 days

Target

Sites we still have to move

Old platforms we inherited rather than chose. Each one costs us support time until it is gone.

ClientOn todayGoing toWhere it is up to
KSHEThe build is finished and all 7,414 of the old URLs resolve on the preview with no 404s, so the hard part is behind us. What is left is commercial rather than technical: the Shopify store is still a development store and cannot take a real payment until it moves onto a paid plan, and then the DNS switches. Ian's availability has paced this the whole way and that has not changed.Joomla with J2Store, and Webflow doing the product filteringShopify for commerce, Astro for the front end, Sanity for the blogbuilding
Speedy Floor SandingDave's site, seven pages, captured in full on 30/05 with the original images pulled at full resolution rather than the cached ones. Jep has the repo. Two things need five minutes with Dave before anything goes live: the business hours in the footer disagree with the hours on the contact page, and the contact page promises an enquiry form that has never existed.Joomla 4 with the YOOtheme Pro builderAstro and Sanitybuilding
Capelli Hair GalleryThe straight rebuild is on main and the showpiece version is sitting on a branch waiting for me to pick one, which is my call and nobody else's, so this one is blocked on me rather than on the salon. No domain attached yet either, so everything is still a vercel.app URL.Joomla, dormant enough that we rebuilt from a Wayback snapshotAstrobuilding
Mint Essentials, with Shayne at MintThree or four hundred legacy sites falling out of Mint's premium core, plus around twenty accommodation sites off Webflow that Shayne has already green lit. The platform is genuinely not decided. Nick takes the SilverStripe side and we take ours against Shayne's list of non negotiables, which is the right way to settle it even though it is slower than me just asserting I am correct.SilverStripeAstro and Sanity, if the Christchurch session goes that wayscoped
BuildSmartRebuilt and all 73 documents are in Sanity, and it is waiting on me to deploy the Studio and call the go live. The one thing I do not want to discover after cutover is that 199 gallery images are still being served off the old Turboweb CDN, because they are, and the day we switch is the day that breaks.TurbowebAstro and Sanitybuilding
Nutritech InternationalCame in through Paxton and prices at roughly $16,000 NZD against a competing quote of $60,000 NZD, which is a gap wide enough that I want to be sure we have understood the same job they have. Nobody has scoped it properly, so treat this as a lead rather than a project until somebody has been through the two thousand products properly.WordPress, around two thousand productsNot decided yetidea