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Process Documentation

Wallets and new-cave
Explain (in the wallets process) how to view the surveys online so that
  (1) you can see an example of how to do your new one, and
  (2) so that you can check that you have done it properly when you have finished.
Explain how to link a new cave into the other caves in troggle filesystem
Explain how to add photos with the correct URL format to sub-HTML files attached to New Caves
svx check
explain command line to run on newly typed survex file to check for format errors '$cavern xxxx.svx'
explain when to use svxtrace.py current scripts
QMs check
explain when to use svx2qm.py -> qms.csv-> tablize-qms.pl current scripts
explain when to use find-dead-qms.py and qmreader.pl current scripts

Surveys data entry

QMs check
Collect together the old "to do" and "readme" notes and put them in a standard place: expoweb/[year]/TODO.html(with self-edit instructionslike this page)
Write code to automatically extract ref info about wallets from tunnel xml files
This will replace :drawings:chk-xml.txt as used by :drawings:check-xml.sh
Do similar for Therion files when people start using #REF comments
2019 surveyscans
edit all the content.json
try to autocomplete the content.json by parsing .svx files
Put personal names into canonical form
2014 contents.json
parse all the svx files to extract people, dates & svx references

Logbook fettling

2019 Logbook
transcribe the rest of those UKcaving blog entries into expoweb/years/2019/logbook.html
copy the photos from the UKCaving blog into expofiles/photos/2019// -- in fact many of those photos are already there
edit in the links to those photos in the right place in 2019/logbook.html
Garlic cave
edit logbook entries 2018, 2019 to link to extensive photos of Garlic cave area {Withnall 2018} , {Becka 2019}
Past logbooks - missing images?
Which previous years HTML logbooks are missing images extracted from scanned PDF copies of the logbooks?
imagemagick convert
Not working for PDFs on current version of xubuntu ! Fix & document. Also not working on WSL ubuntu. Needed to work with logbook images easily.
2018 Logbook
Check Natalie Uomini's typed entries and extensive photos are minimized and linked in properly to the HTML logbook
Add missing images to logbooks
2000, 2008, 2009, 2011
fix corrupted image in 2001 log
2011 logbook:
type up via-ferrate & bolt-testing writeups (In paper book, not in scan or HTML)
200? logbook:
Type up "list of GPS locations still to type"

Handbook

Desperately needs Navigation - Location Context, Situational Awareness
No overall view of what there is: need a user-friendly diagrammatic overview sitemap. There are 4,869 files in :expoweb:
Not fixed by menus - breadcrumbs needed?
Diagrams of major sections: survey handbook, rigging handbook, computing handbook, Areas, cave data..
Chase Airoa to help fix the menus for phones
Look at gov.uk guidelines for inspiration
When git migration done
Edit out all mercurial
Split the TortoiseHg/PuTTy documentationa nd retain only PuTTy
Wookey Overview presentation
extract content from Troggle which does not render properly and extract the HTML not in slide format - correcting things now outdated.

Photos

Fix the BINS package
set up git on the BINS software? Fix base url sautret.org
set up a cron / Makefile job to run BINS
why is 'updatephotos' script in expofiles?
Document the ~expo/webphotos/ directory and how it works
Why does expofiles/photos/xml/ get created containing all the generated xml files? Fix this.

System Documentation

Document how we generate the SMK overall lengths and stats
scripts and manual actions in cavern
Troggle architecture
Handbook: add more to the new troggle architecture documentation. For future system maintainers
Regenerate the diagram of the tables in the database & document
Describe the parsing/import procedures so non-nerds can do it
Copy [some of] the .wiki material into the documentation somewhere
Surveyscans
explain where the image files are referenced from: svx, tunnel/therion, and
why there are so many broken links
Apache & MySQL configuration
DOCUMENT How to set up a server
Explain why Docker containers can be a maintenance nightmare
non-troggle scripts
DOCUMENT them all - have we got a full list?

Troggle

Better import error messages
REPORT if import surveyscan file failure
Why are so many surveyscan foolder missing after import?
WHY are total lengths of surveyed cave different between expo server and WSL server for 2019 and a few other years only ?
NOEDIT flag
Describe how this is implemented using <meta name="keywords" content="NOEDIT">
Logbook data model: unfilled fields?
'cave' of location field missing on nearly all logbook entroies. Missing from logbook templates. Where is this used and how can we fill it it in? Is it useful?

Expo Server

document directory structure
as per Julian's GitHub list - then close that issue
permissions
do we need a cron job or has the group membership fix fixed it ? either way, document it.

Tackle Store Records

No authoritative list of where the expo paper records are!
NO expo paperwork at all prior to 2008 in Tackle Store - where is it ?
FIND where all the wallet binders are, and the logbooks. <
BUY A4 plastic boxes for filing cabinet for logbooks getting damp there.
2017, 2018, 2019 wallet binders are in Philip S.'s house.

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Status
Try the Experimental to-do list - no extra display capabilities yet.
Fix the "click twice" on startup. Make it only click once to change display state of the DT tag
Eventual aim
to replace GitHub CUCCexposurveyissues for non-tunnel, non-GIS issues.
We need two of these:
1.for expo systems work (troggle & scripts) - the current priority as we have nowhere currently that Wookey is willing to use
2.for survey data progress/issues (though troggle itself can be used for some of this if cleaned up a bit)
Try to automate simple functions in javascript
to control this document in-place (tick, delete) instead of using the tinymce HTML editor in Django
Maybe restructure whole page as JSON and use javascript editor to create (edit), re-order and demote items.
if using tinymcs, use the INLINE mode.
Implement comments on an issue, mimicking GitHub issues wiki
Use javascript to skip over the _edit page and submit changes direct to server when updating. Needs direct POST and include the javascript in the posted content.
checkboxes so that items can be ticked (which also does strike-through)
promotion/demotion options?
bin icon to delete an item? Better to have an archive process.
Local WSL server
Why is it using recuced-capability tinymce, a paths problem ?
Italics management
Hide ALL DD if any Heading clicked.
Put DL into italics when *any* DD is hidden

Cave Updating

1623/251
Put in tunnel plan instead of scan of drawn-up notes.
Draw up elevation (therion)
All copied verbatim from :expoweb:/1623/264/cavedescription2016
which has now been deleted.
tightyorkshireman

person size phreatic tube, left passage emerges at pitch head, right passage becomes too tight.

rabbitwarrens
Sandy crabwalk turning into a tube parallel to main passage connecting to ein und zwanzig

noserock2
Pitch dropped round the corner from the pitch in noserock. Lots of
break-down and pitch ended in a choked chamber floor.

northhole
;Small grotty hole in the floor of eis koek aven, which connects through to the nearby large hole down to a circular ice floor.

northhole2
; continuing north from northhole, there is a series of freeclimbable avens going upward, the final survey station is at an awkward but not impassable squeeze. A handline would be very helpful in coming back down. There are also two connections to the frozen north, one is a tube at head height and the other is a small crawl at the start of the choss slope leading to the first aven climb. 

icecockLC1
;linking icecock aven to the ice pit in north hole.

icecock3
;small sandy floored tube connecting the icecock bypass to the northhole passage

gosserwager2
linking the bottom of the pitch (name?) to the rift above gosser wager and the pitch down to it, continuing to a boulder choke.

gosserwager3
Rift passage heading South, with a 15m pitch at head. Clean walls, rubble floor. Leads to short down climb before more rift and another pitch series.

frozennorth
climb up between wall and block, aided by two bolts, to enter ice lake
chamber. Ahead is a large aven with snow slope entering. Just before
this is a small passage on the right. Climb up into this and follow
ice inlet until breaks out into large aven and trench area at station
12. To the south is/was unexplored, but later connected to rest of
cave. To left is small sanding tube to view into same trench system.

frozennorth4
left juction in frozennorth where there are sandy crawls, comes out on
a precarious ledge above a big hole. Traversing around this leads to a
medium sized sandy crawl sloping downwards to a huge chamber with a
pitch suspected to be the north end of lead 93B from the start of
expo2015 in turtlehead.

frozennorth3:
A rift passage that loops round and links 2 chambers, with possible leads at the end at station 5. 

darkartsiv:
continuing A lead at south end of dark arts, went in then surveyed out but didn't make it all the way to connect up the surveys.

cathedralLC2:
Linking avalancheexperience to cathedralchasm without having to use the dodgy data in chamber90b survey

cathedralchasm:
really fucking huge chamber with many good leads. turns out it was already surveyed as chamber90b be Julian.

catherdralchasm2
Coming fdrom Cathedral Kazam a wet traverse across a pitch David
dropped a setter down. Passage continues to chamber with a loop coming
off to the left up and emerging at top of chamber en route. from
cahmber a rift goes off up right with main passgae continueing
straight. Also a small lead to left leads round to two small 5m pitchs
containg crystal formations. A traverse continues on with another
pitch. Taking the main route from the chamber a sandy passage leads
past three bat skeletons before becoming a crawl, eventually reaching
a junction. the larger passge to the left links back to the passge
near trident junction/ gear dump. This bypass is now the recommended
wat to reach cathedral kazam.

bipedal:
heading south out of amalgamation you arrive at a large long hole in the floor. Partial completion of traverse over hole, plus exploratin of two small side leads. Left over small rock bridge ends in blind pot. Right hand small passage soon becomes too tight. 

bipedalpassage5
short pitch down to large aven chamber with vedose rift in floorway.

hiltigalactica
After dropping initial pitch (Deep Space 9) approx 25m in hilt-a-plenty.
Long rocky chamber from bottom of pitch to next unexplored pitch.
Slope near end up left ends after short distance. Small side passage near
start on right continues to small sandy chamber with several leads.
From here archway leads onto bouldery ledge in side of very large chamber
to be explored.

All copied verbatim from :expoweb:/1623/264/trident_to_little_boy.txt
which has now been deleted.
Cave: Balcony (Far Side to Deep Balcony)

Trident is a four way junction- take the left fork to an alcove on the left with an obscure mud floored crawl. This is followed for 10m, improving to walking height. Follow past two bat skeletons then right turn to another bat; continue ~20m. A mud floored junction, turn right to the head of a traverse then pitch after 10m. Straight on would have led you to a noteworthy drippy pitch (Kathedral Chasm). 

----Honeycomb----
The traverse to pitch is the beginning of Honeycomb (50m of pitches). This swings to a window, following the rope to a ledge 10m above the floor. From here there's a narrow popcorn-lined climb to the head of a 7m pitch. At the bottom, climb the slope and follow obvious continuation (draught) to the head of 12m pitch. This pitch lands at the top of Hangman (p30), on account of the huge hanging boulder. (The near side of the boulder descends to the way on to the top of Mongol Rally, whereas the far side of the boulder is rigged to swing into a window half way down, Myopia. This is a passage heading north, traversing around a large pit, leading to another pitch which could be traversed around, ?a.)

----Nature Calls----
At the bottom, follow the traverse round to a mudslope. At the top of the mudslope there is an awkward crawl for 10m, soon improves to walking. Follow this passage for 30m. There's a p5, follow the rope to the head of the Mongol Rally (p200). 

----Mongol Rally and Little Boy----
Descending this rope lands into a roomy boulder chamber. Walking down the slope between boulders (distinguished path in the mud), leads to a blind pit and big aven. A right turn takes you to stooping height passage, for 50m to the head of Little Boy pitch (20m). There is a significant draught here; follow this. The camp is currently at the base of the pitch (August 2018). 

----Water collection----
There are three exits to the chamber. 
1. a short crawl 
2. a climb down on the far side. 
Both lead to the same place and draught. 

Leave on the far side of the chamber, via a climb down and turn right, climbing down a boulder into pleasent walking passage, very straight and heading north. The floor is soft wet mud. After ~100m a stream trench enters on the right, followed round a corner into a drippy aven. Collect water here, scoop (mug) advisable. 




(Currently unconnected from Grand Prix)

----One direction----
A little further on from the right turn towards the water cllection, is a muddy ledge on the left hand side (1m from ground). Low crawl continues for 100m in straight line, over three puddles. Stal, but largely unnoteworthy. Ends at the Tsection into clean washed tall rift with sounds of water. Downhill leads to promising a lead, in clean washed rock, sketchy c6, requires rope, heads into rifty stuff. Uphill, includes split (meander) to scoopy loopy junction.

----Scoopy Loopy----
Scoop it until you loop it. Junction has small a lead on right hand wall, to sound of wet rift. Obvious way on cuts left, walking passage heading upwards until low crawl into breakdown chamber. A climb on the right links into Grand Prix.

----Nothing to do with you traverse---- (ntdwyt)
The passage towards the water collection is followed, beyond the turning for water. This leads to a pitch down (Indy Rally) or a traverse left. The traverse left goes ~10m, before muddy walking passage ~30m until it chokes.

----Little boy beneath the boulders----
A short 2m climb through a boulder choke leads to break down chamber directly below grand prix. Qmc at station 8, p10, probably drops level with station 6 (lbbeneaththeboulders).

----Little boy bolt climbs----
From the grand prix, left from little boy beneath the boulders is a large hanging boulder. Traverse along massive choked boulder on left hand side of grand prix. Not derigged. Climbs up steep mud slope into rift that shortly forks (station 4). P15 qmc down from here, leads probably to lbbeneaththeboulders. Sketchy rift climb qmc from here, dispute about seeing a human sized passage beyond here. 


Testing area..
Demonstation text as initially read from disc