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

[moses dsouza]

Hi Shauna

I would like to part of this.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Britta Gustafson <brittag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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