Convening teams + planning issues for Outreachy/Summer of Code

[jywarren]

Hi, all! We have some more guidance coming for folks in our summer programs #5667 -- but I also want to encourage people to begin getting to know one another, and looking at who will be working together this summer.

Some of you are pretty much on a team together on one project, like @alaxalves and @kaustubh-nair -- although how you share the work needs to be planned out -- and others will be working on parts that link up with each other, like @ananyaarun and @CleverFool77 and @gautamig54, for one example (@ananyaarun's work on maps will be featured on several of the pages on PublicLab.org the others will be working on!)

So, this kind of thing needs some discussion, planning, and coordination. Please consider starting to transfer your proposal tasks into "planning issues" with checklists, as outlined in the "Modularity" blog post on https://publiclab.org/software-outreach -- and people can start to organize tasks among team members in such planning issues.

Some working in parallel may be necessary and helpful! Someone could work on the front-end, while someone else works on the controllers. Or one person could develop re-usable templates that the other plugs into overall page designs! Our UI teams have some to digest in our new Style Guide draft!

@CleverFool77 @ananyaarun @IshaGupta18 @namangupta01 @sidntrivedi012 @divyabaid16 @Divy123 @MargaretAN9 @ViditChitkara @aashna27 @gautamig54 @kaustubh-nair @rexagod @alaxalves

Mentors - I've assigned people more projects, just because I hadn't heard from everyone. I'm happy to change, add, reduce your projects, so please feel free to contact me; we can use the 'reviewers' Gitter room to coordinate. I'm sorry if you got lots of notifications, i don't mean to imply you /have/ to take on more projects, just wanted to get the ball rolling, and we can readjust now. Thanks! 🙌

Mentors so far: @jainaman224 @ebarry @sagarpreet-chadha @Harshithpabbati @siaw23 @Souravirus @gauravano @Mridul97 @sashadev-sky @SidharthBansal

[jywarren]

And noting I've just added everyone above to @publiclab/soc - mentors and participants -- and will soon create the mentors list too!

Update: done -- for reviews, please see @publiclab/reviewers, but if you really need /just/ mentors, you can now use @publiclab/mentors. Thank you!

[SidharthBansal]

Thanks Jeff. Let's plan things out.

[SidharthBansal]

Hi @publiclab/soc team, all the participants are requested to open Planning issues like we did last summer. For one project we can open up one planning issue. Example for MK Rails Upgrade we will have one planning issue in the MK repository where @kaustubh-nair and @alaxalves will coordinate. We can follow this approach for all the projects. Like Naman and Gautami for Notification System Naman and Isha for the Sensor Data Project Vidit and @divyabaid16 for MK synchronous editing project and so on. We can use the assign feature at the planning issue for assigning all the mentors and all the participants on those issues. This will make us work highly managable and modular. In case we will create gitter rooms then there are people who uses other IRC channel which does not provide ability to save the previous messages. This can create problem. So i think best approach will be to create planning issues which we did each year.

[kaustubh-nair]

Sounds awesome. @alaxalves and I will have a discussion over the weekend and put up the schedule and division of work on the planning issue accordingly.

[SidharthBansal]

That will be simply awesome!!! You can discuss and interact at the planning issue. Update the header of the issue as you progress through out the project

[SidharthBansal]

@publiclab/soc also, we used the Milestones. Milestones are used to acertain the progress of the project. So, please add all your issues/prs/ftos into the milestone so that we can evaluate your progress by just reading the milestones. You can use gsoc or outreachy label on the issues and prs. Don't forget to break the planning issue into individual issues and link them to the main planning issue Thanks

[SidharthBansal]

https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2676 and https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2388 can help you folks for understanding how we do planning issues at pl. Thanks

[CleverFool77]

Hi @jywarren and @SidharthBansal I had a question. Me and @gautamig54 will be working on UI. So Should I open an issue containing all the division of works in checklists where we will look into the matter regarding coordination ?

[sagarpreet-chadha]

Hi @CleverFool77 , Yes please go ahead . I also did the same during my gsoc :) https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2671

[asquare14]

May I suggest using the Projects feature in GitHub. Issues directly move from Todo to done as soon as it is closed, and you can move them to work in progress too. I think it'll help to keep track of issues more efficiently. Let me know if you need help setting it up. :) Here's an example project that my mentors set up during RGSoC for me https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/projects/10

On Fri, May 10, 2019, 3:50 PM Sagarpreet Chadha notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @CleverFool77 https://github.com/CleverFool77 , Yes please go ahead . I also did the same during my gsoc :) #2671 https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2671

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[SidharthBansal]

@aSquare14 thanks for the suggestion. I think that feature requires things to be given by mentors. We need to give rights to create projects to the students if we want them to be listed under projects. @jywarren what you think is better option Milestones/Projects?

[asquare14]

If I'm not wrong I think anyone can create a project as long as they're added to the org :)

On Fri, May 10, 2019, 6:40 PM Sidharth Bansal notifications@github.com wrote:

@aSquare14 https://github.com/aSquare14 thanks for the suggestion. I think that feature requires things to be given by mentors. We need to give rights to create projects to the students if we want them to be listed under projects. @jywarren https://github.com/jywarren what you think is better option Milestones/Projects?

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[SidharthBansal]

What is difference between milestones and project? Can you please indicate advantages and disadvantages for both? Thanks

On Fri, May 10, 2019, 7:33 PM Atibhi Agrawal notifications@github.com wrote:

If I'm not wrong I think anyone can create a project as long as they're added to the org :)

On Fri, May 10, 2019, 6:40 PM Sidharth Bansal notifications@github.com wrote:

@aSquare14 https://github.com/aSquare14 thanks for the suggestion. I think that feature requires things to be given by mentors. We need to give rights to create projects to the students if we want them to be listed under projects. @jywarren https://github.com/jywarren what you think is better option Milestones/Projects?

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[asquare14]

@SidharthBansal Found this great answer on stackoverflow ! Do give it a read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39591795/what-is-the-difference-relationship-between-github-projects-and-milestones

[SidharthBansal]

Awesome!!! I think projects is a better option.

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@SidharthBansal https://github.com/SidharthBansal Found this great answer on stackoverflow ! Do give it a read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39591795/what-is-the-difference-relationship-between-github-projects-and-milestones

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[grvsachdeva]

Yeah, using GitHub projects is a better option. We already have many projects - https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/projects :smiley:.

[CleverFool77]

Hi everyone. So Should I create project under the name Outreachy 2019, In which I'll open various tasks like people section , questions section etc ?

[grvsachdeva]

Hi, please use name relevant to project like UI redesign , etc

Gaurav Sachdeva

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Hi everyone. So Should I create project under the name Outreachy 2019, In which I'll open various tasks like people section , questions section etc ?

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[gautamig54]

@CleverFool77 The idea sounds great. You can open issue saying "UI improvements - Summer 2019" or something like this and we can start the discussions and divide the work for different webpages. @namangupta01, I can open an issue for "Notification System" and start the discussion and divide the work accordingly. Thanks!

[SidharthBansal]

Go ahead Gautami

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@CleverFool77 https://github.com/CleverFool77 The idea sounds great. You can open issue saying "UI improvements - Summer 2019" or something like this and we can start the discussions and divide the work for different webpages. @namangupta01 https://github.com/namangupta01, we can open a project for "Notification System" and start the discussion and divide the work accordingly.

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[CleverFool77]

Hi @gautamig54 and everyone I just opened the project for UI improvements. Now all the new cards and checklists will be added there. @gautamig54 I guess we can start off with our checklists. Now all the issues for UI improvements in summer of code would added there. How do we divide them ? Should I divide the whole project into sections of people, question, dashboard , tags etc. And every section into further todos parts? It would be great to hear some suggestions regarding the protocol followed in projects as I never used one before. Thank You.

[SidharthBansal]

Best way to do things is without restriction in the way you wish to do. Once different teams are set up, teams can look in each others team and find good portions which they can adopt. This approach will give us a quick start with great future enhancements.

On Sat, May 11, 2019, 9:59 PM Lekhika Dugtal notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @gautamig54 https://github.com/gautamig54 and everyone I just opened the project for UI improvements. Now all the new cards and checklists will be added there. @gautamig54 https://github.com/gautamig54 I guess we can start off with our checklists. How do we divide them ? Should I divide the whole project into sections of people, question, dashboard , tags etc. And every section into further todos parts? It would be great to hear some suggestions regarding the protocol followed in projects as I never used one before. Thank You.

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[namangupta01]

Ya sure Gautami, Can we discuss after 16 may? I have my exams going on. Thanks!!

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@CleverFool77 https://github.com/CleverFool77 The idea sounds great. You can open issue saying "UI improvements - Summer 2019" or something like this and we can start the discussions and divide the work for different webpages. @namangupta01 https://github.com/namangupta01, we can open a project for "Notification System" and start the discussion and divide the work accordingly.

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[SidharthBansal]

Best Of Luck Naman.

[SidharthBansal]

Please link milestone/projects/planning issues here.

[SidharthBansal]

https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/305

[SidharthBansal]

https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/593 @divyabaid16 @vidit here is issue for you. You asked me to open for you. Please feel free to make it as per your project requirements. Best of luck

[sidntrivedi012]

@jywarren @SidharthBansal Opened the Planning issue in Spectral-workbench.js for the Spectral Workbench Capture project. Please review. https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js/issues/92

I will be adding more sub-tasks in a detailed format to the issue shortly. I am currently somewhat busy due to my university exams which will be ending on 22nd May. Though, I will try to keep up with the work to be done and going on here.

Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

[SidharthBansal]

Awesome!!! Best of luck to you all!!! I have my exams till 19th(on Sunday too!!!). My university wants us to study even at weekends.. lol...hahaha

[jywarren]

This is looking great, folks! I've been trying to go in and give deeper comments on each project's planning issues every couple days. I just did this here: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/168

Actually i'm noticing that there are a lot of projects this year which will be getting started in a separate repo outside plots2 but with the intention of re-integrating later. This is cool and it's a great approach. I've started trying to connect folks who are working in this way. I know @IshaGupta18 @namangupta01 have just gone through this process quite quickly! This may be relevant to @Rishabh570 as well, in terms of how to architect a stand-alone JS library.

Note that folks like @gautamig54 @CleverFool77 don't need to do this - your work will be right in plots2. But for those working on satellite libraries or general purpose libraries or like @sidntrivedi012 or @rexagod on a satellite library to another codebase, you can rely on each other a lot for guidance and ideas and helpful critique on how to structure your projects.

Awesome to see everyone getting organized and ready! 🎉 🎉 🎉

[gautamig54]

@CleverFool77 Thanks for opening a project for UI improvements. I think it is better to have a separate issue for each page which can be added in the to-do list for the project. Also, I will open up an issue which will list down the pages which we need to focus on or any other UI improvements and we can discuss our summer plan there. It will be helpful for an organised start to the project as our entire summer plan will be at a single place.

[jywarren]

Gautami this sounds super!

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@CleverFool77 https://github.com/CleverFool77 Thanks for opening a project for UI improvements. I think it is better to have a separate issue for each page which can be added in the to-do list for the project. Also, I will open up an issue which will list down the pages which we need to focus on or any other UI improvements and we can discuss our summer plan there. It will be helpful for an organised start to the project as our entire summer plan will be at a single place.

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[gautamig54]

I have opened a project for the Notification System. @namangupta01 Can you have a look at it and add if I missed something. Also, should I create an issue for the Notification System project for discussions?

[SidharthBansal]

We can have discussion in the planning issue itself. At the beginning of issue, you can have the editable checklist. Thanks

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I have opened a project for the Notification System. @namangupta01 https://github.com/namangupta01 Can you have a look at it and add if I missed something. Also, should I create an issue for the Notification System project for discussions?

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[Divy123]

@aashna27 , @publiclab/mentors I have added the project for Image Sequencer here: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/projects/2 Aashna you can add your set of issues as well by breaking them up as suitable for you. Also we can collaborate upon and keep on breaking some issues as suitable.

[CleverFool77]

@CleverFool77 Thanks for opening a project for UI improvements. I think it is better to have a separate issue for each page which can be added in the to-do list for the project. Also, I will open up an issue which will list down the pages which we need to focus on or any other UI improvements and we can discuss our summer plan there. It will be helpful for an organised start to the project as our entire summer plan will be at a single place.

Hi @gautamig54 . That's exactly what I followed. I tried keeping different issue for each section. And In each section , I added further checklists based on division of work. We'll be adding these issues in todos of projects. It would make the process convenient and easy Thanks !!!

[namangupta01]

Hi @gautamig54, I have added some tasks in the project and will add some soon.

[SidharthBansal]

Great

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Hi @gautamig54 https://github.com/gautamig54, I have added some tasks in the project and will add some soon.

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[asquare14]

@SidharthBansal Can you please add me to the reviewers chat on gitter so that I can discuss a few things with you all ! :)

[jywarren]

Just noting this, sorry for slow reply -- the reviewers room is at https://gitter.im/publiclab/reviewers ! I believe it's public!

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@SidharthBansal https://github.com/SidharthBansal Can you please add me to the reviewers chat on gitter so that I can discuss a few things with you all ! :)

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[grvsachdeva]

@jywarren actually the reviewers' group is an invite-only group. I just added you @aSquare14 to the group. Welcome :tada: !!

[asquare14]

Thanks.

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@jywarren https://github.com/jywarren actually the reviewers' group is an invite-only group. I just added you @aSquare14 https://github.com/aSquare14 to the group. Welcome 🎉 !!

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[jywarren]

Great work everyone!!!!