Feature Request: Collaborative Discussions for Argus Views

[soyacz]

Feature Request: Collaborative Discussions for Argus Views

Summary:

When working with Argus Views, users often need to discuss and annotate findings during meetings. The proposed feature introduces a widget with two sections to help users highlight important messages and track action items. This will streamline collaboration, especially when analyzing the latest Argus View.

Feature Details:

The widget consists of two sections:

1. Highlights
   A place to add important messages and questions for discussion. Each entry may include:

   • Textual entries for general messages or questions. Examples:
     • “New gradual throughput test added”
     • “An issue was fixed/added”
     • “Shall we test tablets with test X?”
   • Links to issues from the tracking system. These should display the issue number, title, status, and assignee.

2. Action Items
   A to-do list for tasks that need action. Each action item will contain:

   • A checkbox to mark completion.
   • A textual description of the task.
   • An assigned person responsible for the task.
     Example:
     [ ] | Schedule tablets test execution every 3 weeks | soyacz

Key Features:

• Entry Creator
  Each entry (both in Highlights and Action Items) will display the creator's avatar to the left of the entry. Hovering over the avatar will show the creator's name in a tooltip. When an entry is edited, the avatar and name will update to reflect the current editor.

• Archiving
  Each highlight or action item can be archived using a button next to the entry. Archived entries will be hidden from the default view but can be shown again via a "Show Archived" button. This button will display only the 30 most recently archived items, with the possibility to unarchive them.

• Comments
  Each entry (both in Highlights and Action Items) can have multiple comments. Comments will be:

  • Collapsible and collapsed by default. The number of comments will be visible, and an expand button will allow users to see them.
  • Editable and deletable only by the original comment creator.
  • No nested comments (i.e., comments on comments) for now.

• Editing
  All users can create and edit own entries.

• Sorting
  Action items will be ordered by their creation time. There are no due dates or priority levels at this time.

Refs: https://github.com/scylladb/qa-tasks/issues/1784

[soyacz]

@roydahan @fruch please review if this makes sense and is targeting our needs for discussions (results summary, graphing will be in separate widgets).

[soyacz]

Draft widget (no backend logic still, just to show how I imagined it more-or-less): Clicking comment button expands comments (one expanded as an example), also clicking show archived will show archived ones with gray background.

@fruch @roydahan @k0machi WDYT?

[k0machi]

You can probably reuse the comment editor component for creating comments, other than that, looks good

[soyacz]

cc @kwiato

[fruch]

Draft widget (no backend logic still, just to show how I imagined it more-or-less): Clicking comment button expands comments (one expanded as an example), also clicking show archived will show archived ones with gray background.

@fruch @roydahan @k0machi WDYT?

Looks good Frank :)

We should have a way to clear item from highlight

Maybe we want comment and action items separated ? or have a way to convert a comment to action item ?

[soyacz]

Looks good Frank :)

:)

We should have a way to clear item from highlight

there's "archive" button - it hides away given item (can be shown back with "show archived")

Maybe we want comment and action items separated ? or have a way to convert a comment to action item ?

Comments are meant for specific highlight/action item to have discussion about them. I'm not sure how comments out of context would be useful. Converting is a thing to consider, but later, when we see it's really needed (I'm afraid that comment form is not fitting to action item/highlight).