Frontend Team Meeting Agenda

[ryanfchase]

Overview

Meeting agendas, useful links, and action items for the weekly Spacelab Frontend member meetings

Agenda template

Template for weekly meeting's comment

## YYYY-MM-DD - Spacelab Frontend Weekly Meeting

### Topic Requests
Topics that members want to address in this meeting.

### Action Items
Tasks that need to get done for upcoming meetings.

### Resources
Links and references to useful URLs, documents, resources, etc.

### Attendees

- [ ] FJ
- [ ] Alexei
- [ ] Ryan
- [ ] Kausar
- [ ] Brianne

[ryanfchase]

2024-10-11 Spacelab Frontend Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• [x] 1st time intros

Notes

• Website: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react
• Exoplanetarium app: https://github.com/spacelabdev/Exoplanetarium-3D
  • currently we are able to run locally, with lots of warnings

Action Items

Questions for Matt

• [x] Upcoming task: changing the about page for the spacelab-react page
  • [x] do we need to ask the design team for input?
  • [x] New team members?
  • [x] New history?
  • [x] Is something broken on the About Page's history component? Is something supposed to be sliding? Or is there a carousel
  • [x] We noticed the team listing (Roles) is not mobile-friendly
• [x] Where our ticketing system lives?
  • [x] potentially?: https://trello.com/b/56OkqE6f
  • [x] What should our priorities be? Is there another list we of tickets that we need to work through?
  • [x] Do we have a team board that we can use? Or should we come up with our own?
• [x] Does the frontend team responsible for renewing our SSL cert to get https on the website
• [x] Do contributors need special team permissions? E.g. perhaps our team lead can be given permissions to edit the Github issues, labels, etc

Questions for anyone familiar w/ Exoplanetarium3D

• [x] noticing we aren't pulling data from any source, just hardcoding the planets
  • [x] What is the plan for data pipeline? How should we begin facilitating this?
• [x] How do we visualize planets that are in different solar system? On the demo site, we only see a single solar system, and planets that live within that solar system
• [ ] Adding light (thus shadows) to make things more realistic
  • [ ] ambient light
  • [ ] center-point of light
  • [ ] we currently have hemisphere light
  • [ ] what is the strategy for coming up with our textures? What aspects are we looking to improve?
  • [ ] each planets are not easily distinguishable from each other
• [x] Where is React website deployed
  • [x] Github Pages

Next Meeting Goals

• [x] Familiarize with frontend website (About Page)
• [x] Find out how our data pipeline will look so we can get ready to receive actual data(?)

[fjstria]

2024-10-11 - Spacelab All-Team Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• Matt: Project introduction PPT
• All-team: Informal stand-up

Frontend Notes

• Overall project goals:
  • Improve Exoplanetarium
    • Data Science team working on database
  • Update the About page
    • Wait on new design from UX/UI
• New tasks will come from PM and UX/UI
  • Frontend PM incoming
• Sprint 1 Assignment: work through legacy tickets (GitHub issues)

Action Items

• Schedule a recurring Frontend meeting
• Divide legacy tickets to work on
• Discuss API needs with Backend team

[ryanfchase]

2024-10-18 - Spacelab Frontend Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• [ ] review issues
  • [ ] https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues/457
  • create .env file (and .example.env for 1st time repo setup)
  • will likely need to create a new client-id token since the existing one is checked into github
  • [ ] close this one? https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues
  • [ ] close this one: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues/454
  • [ ] need a list of active members and their info: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues/450
  • does Matt have a spreadsheet where members can provide any public info they'd like to share?
  • [ ] alex was sent documentation. blocked: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues/448
  • he needs permissions from AWS (see below)
  • needs credentials from godaddy, needs a key to provide to AWS
  • [ ] new ticket: need legacy members vs current members tab
  • [ ] we'll need UIUX to provide designs
  • [ ] ready for dev: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues/347
  • [ ] new ticket: backend call to blog posts is returning 503, no blog posts being retrieved
  • [ ] ready for dev: https://github.com/spacelabdev/spacelab-react/issues/328
  • This SearchBar component exists on the Glossary page / component
  • [ ] new dev ticket (need clarification from Matt): updating Terms and Conditions
• [ ] collaborate with backend on data pipeline
• [ ] Important: we need some way of viewing the live source code. The spacelab-react repo does not have a CI pipeline, therefore we'll need to go to AWS to view the source code.
  • [ ] maybe ask Benny since we know he has access to AWS
  • [ ] we know our instance IP is 35.82.90.21, do we need to SSH into this to view source code?
• [ ] Important: Regarding project board + issues
  • [ ] we ALL need to be added to the spacelab-react project. nobody can add themselves as assignees
• [ ] Important: schedule time with Matt and at least 1 rep from Frontend to resolve important issues

Action Items

Tasks that need to get done for upcoming meetings.

Resources

No Blog Posts


Attendees

• [x] FJ: fjstria
• [x] Alexei: Alex-dev7
• [x] Ryan: ryanfchase
• [x] Kausar: kakther (might be already set)
• [x] Brianne: freckledspider

[fjstria]

2024-10-18 - Spacelab All-Team Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• Stand-up
• Sprint 1 conclusion, Sprint 2 introduction

Frontend Notes

• Roadblock on SSL
• UI/UX recruitment ongoing
• AWS region is Oregon
• April (UX/UI) has made new mockup for About page (they're still polishing)

Action Items

• [x] Schedule Frontend sync-up meeting with Matt
• [ ] Continue assignment and work on legacy tickets
• [ ] Connect with Backend on API needs (no rush, they need more time)
• [ ] Update About Page (Create tickets, feature branch)
• [ ] Begin looking into Exoplanetarium – UX/UI is beginning work on designs

Resources

• Check in on UX/UI Slack channel for the latest Figma designs

[fjstria]

2024-10-25 - Spacelab Frontend Weekly Meeting

Topic Requests

• Recap of About Page tasks
• Recap of Exoplanetarium tasks

Notes

• Develop starting off of main! There are changes not yet pushed to release branch

Action Items

• [x] Permissions to GitHub Projects – our perms disappeared and we can't create tasks
• [ ] Once permissions fixed, clean up tickets

Attendees

• [x] FJ
• [x] Alexei
• [x] Gavin
• [x] Benny (Backend team)