Week 384

Note that we’re writing these notes nearly 6 months late which is why they’re in summary form.

We were mostly focussed on Smart Answers during the week.

Smart Answers

• Add question 2a to transit visa branch to track Common Travel Areas (v2) #2554
• An attempt at fixing intermittent test failure #1816
• Convert calculate-statutory-sick-pay flow to class #1726
• Enable remaining disabled Rubocop rules and fix violations #2549
• Fix flow registration (indexable content for outcome nodes) #1955
• Move DateHelper into the SmartAnswer namespace #2546
• Refactor calculate-married-couples-allowance and fix 4 bugs (with feedback addressed) #2545
• Refactor landlord-immigration-check #2550
• Remove integration tests asserting against outcome nodes #1666
• Revert handling of template exceptions when generating indexable content #2548
• Update gds-api-adapters from v25.1.0 to v30.6.0 (the latest version) #2552
• Benefit cap calculator: Add a second flow to show upcoming autumn 2016 changes to the benefit cap #2547

GFR

• James listened to a rehearsal of Chris L’s upcoming conference talk.

• James hosted our monthly drinks on Wednesday. The original plan was to meet at The Singer Tavern but it was too busy/noisy and so they moved on to The Old King’s Head.

• We had ongoing email conversations about our plans to work at GDS.

• Received a replacement Certificate of Incorporation. We had an electronic copy of this but it hadn’t been accepted when we’d tried to use it to set-up business mail redirection in the past.

• Conversations with our accountant, Paul, as he worked on the annual accounts.

• Received our countersigned agreement for the Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework (DOSF).

• Created our MISO account to handle reporting requirements for DOSF.

• Agreed to a retrospective for the Benefit Cap Calculator changes discussed in week 379.

• James wrote to Aegon to instruct them to increase my pension payments.

• James investigated new GitHub plans and we agreed to stick with what we have.

• James investigated submitting our VAT return monthly. We wonder whether this’ll reduce the pain of submitting it monthly.

• James upgraded Rails in GFR Video and Hookline music library apps based on recent security vulnerability announcements.