[OH-Dev] project-finder documentation/refactoring/redesign/improvement effort

[Britta Gustafson]

I like this idea! I think there's room for improvement in fun and useful
ways. I could probably help with things like identifying common
goals/experiences of the maintainers I've talked to who were curious about
whether OpenHatch could help them, and helping figure out ideas for being
more useful to them.

Here's a recent post from a project contributor I talked to a bit, which I
think is an interesting example:
http://pioneerspacesim.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=290

Britta

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> So as anyone who's been watching me collect issues in the project finder
> milestone
> <https://github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/milestones/Project%20Finder%20Update>
> can probably tell, I think the project finder could really use some love.
> I'd be thrilled if reviewing, redesigning, refactoring (and *documenting*)
> the project finder and related parts of the site/django models could be a
> community effort.
>
> Is anyone on this list interested in participating in such a thing?
> Anyone interested in leading or co-leading it?
>
> Some ideas I have w/r/t process/structure:
>
> - I think there's a lot of implicit knowledge about how oh-mainline works
> in the heads of a few people.  It would be great to, early on in this
> process, have those people go through the codebase and explain as much of
> it as they can.  This could be done in a one-to-many way, via something
> like a google hangout, or a one-to-one way via pairing.  We could do
> documentation updates as part of this process.
>
> - It would be great to get some feedback from projects who use the finder
> on what's working for them and what isn't.  We can then use that to guide
> the redesign.  I feel comfortable with surveying methodology and could take
> the lead on this aspect.  I'm also happy to pair with someone less
> experienced with this kind of task, or to support someone more experienced.
>  :)
>
> - Once we know what we want to change, I am heartily in favor of sprints
> to make the changes.  :D
>
> Please let me know what you think!
> best
> Shauna
>
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