On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 14:41:22 -0000, Aniketh Reddimi wrote:
Hello Alisha and Ankur,
Hi Aniketh,
Thank for looking into this.
I’ve recently joined the CommOps group for discussing about a potential GSoC project (you might have known me as paraxor on the Join SIG channel) and am redirected by JFlory (Justin W.Flory) to discuss the same with you.
My proposal is to Design and Redo/Renovate the current WCIDFF site. I’ve made some progress in listing out all the current objectives and obstacles, so that one can decide if this might seem too broad and out of scope for a GSoC project. If someone is interested and is kind enough to see this as a potential project (as I feel this must last at-least 5 years with continuous support and maintenance), please do reach out!
As for the deliverables, one can start out as:
- Revamp the UI to build the best possible experience users
- Building initial mockups and gather community feedback
- Automation of issuing tickets from related administrators etc (Just a start)
I’ve linked a PDF of what can be done, please look into this. PDF: https://drive.google.com/open?id=16tKvXUka09ivHvHVfpH73--jw3PVgdQ_
This is a good, but generic web-app plan. wcidff by design is plain HTML/CSS/JS, a static site without databases/openshift/docker or anything of that sort. The most important part: how are you improving wcidff seems to be missing from this document. We don't need it to be faster or flashier or use 5 different internet technologies, we simply need it to be more useful to newcomers. So if you want to investigate this as a potential project, maybe you should start with user-stories first (requirements?).
Anyway, as you'll see from my other replies to the list, I, unfortunately, don't think that wcidff is the best platform for newbies to start with. We're trying to work on a system where people join the Fedora community first---without thinking of contributing at all---and then as they hear more about how Fedora does things, they can find tasks that interest them and work on them.
So, with that in mind, I don't think revamping wcidff is worth the resources. It is OK in its current state, and there's some discussion to make it a little better with a little bit of effort: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/what-to-do-with-wcidff-warning/13302
Of course, others in the community may think differently. I won't be able to mentor projects this GSoC anyway, so I'm not the best person to discuss this with :)