Loomio
Mon 7 Jul 2014 3:19AM

Create a UI task force

PC Pablo Cúbico Public Seen by 172

Hi!

I'm seeing some UI proposals and discussions going on, and also, some new contributors (as myself) willing to dive deeply into UI stuff.

As a good user experience requires consistency, I think we could create a UI task force for the guys who are contributing with UI code (e.g.: Fla, Goob, Stefan, me, a new guy Blase on github), and potentially any UI newcomer.

What's a task force? Well, for now, just a logical grouping, an idea, but we can maybe start with a wiki page, and perhaps also a Loomio group for UI discussions. Just thinking out loud here.

I think we could use these kind of tools as a more focused common space to settle decisions and conventions as:

  • Coding conventions
  • Framework decisions (Bootstrap porting, etc)
  • Diaspora UI standards
  • Goals
  • UI coding help
  • Reporting current status (who is doing what)
  • Getting to know each other
  • Share our expertise with each other
  • Create findable documents and stuff regarding UI code
  • Review UI issues and track status of all the UI stuff on Github
  • Try to help the core contributors on reviewing and getting some work off their shoulders
  • Recruit potentially new contributors

And so on, to make all UI contributors be on the same page.

I would propose to do that using only current tools, as introducing (at least in my experience) new ones often lead to abandoned sharing places.

Of course, no task force should be a closed one, everything should be shared publicly with all members to discuss. But ultimately, having devoted coders/contributors on a more focused program will lead to stronger arguments and discussions.

I think this idea could be extended to other groups (security, etc) as long as the Diaspora contributor pool keeps growing, but as I'm a UI guy, I'm limiting this proposal to this one only.

Please comment and share your thoughts!

BP

Błażej Pankowiak Thu 7 Aug 2014 10:44AM

I miss the old list of contributors. The one with hackers and designers. It was around when I was learning Rails and now, when I'm ready to contribute it's impossible to find you guys. Separate IRC channel would be a great start, so we could at least chat there.

By the way I'm [email protected] and I want more friends ;) I'm also a huge fan of what's going on here!

F

Flaburgan Wed 17 Sep 2014 3:46PM

Okay #4466 is going well, let's focus on that first.

About the wiki page:

that the page is also to keep track of current UI development

That's not a good idea imo. Let's track progress and code on github, we can use meta issue for that. We can still create a wiki page to summarize best practices ;)

ED

Eric Dorman Fri 26 Sep 2014 10:26PM

Yeah I am just learning Rails and have only been doing it for about 4 weeks or so, but if you guys need help I could try to see if I can do the work well enough.