Scrum Report 6

[MattWanJH]

Include your INITIALS (that match your Canvas name) in your post (so we can give you a grade!) Answer 3 questions:

• What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
• What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
• What you would do next if you were continuing with the project work?

Other

• These are individual, so you are tracking your OWN work
• Can use this as a resource when you’re writing about your project on your resume or LinkedIn -> look back and remember details about implementation
• We are having this due AFTER each workshop so that you are better able to understand the technology you’re going to be using. The real effort comes from talking to your group and planning your next steps!
• Keep it short, succinct, and summarize the key points

[MattWanJH]

Matthew Wan - MW

1. What did you work on this past iteration? I worked on designing and creating the home page and tutorial pages. I recorded videos for both the home and tutorial pages and focused on making both pages fully reactive. I also went through each file of the entire project to remove or refactor any unnecessary comments, fix bugs, and make the code nicer.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? A major issue we ran into was how to display our animated logo on the main page. We recorded a video of our logo since rendering it live would cause performance issues if you wanted to scroll on the web page, but the background colour of the video and web page wouldn't work on different machines. We ended up applying a mask with a gradient to make the styling nicer to maintain performance while making the colour difference less noticable.

3. What you would do next if you were continuing with the project work? In the future, I would like to work on making the editor have an updated UI. Right now the canvas is quite small and doesn't feel as user friendly as it could be. This would not be a simple problem to fix however because resizing the canvas can cause major performance issues so we we would need to find a way around this. Something else that might be nice is having an interactive tutorial that would walk you through the different parts of the editor page as you play around with it.

[AidenKerr]

Aiden Kerr AK

• What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)? I created a new shape type. I also made an animated logo for the webpage and wrote a lot of the README. Additionally, I worked on the user login flow from the editor with Jacob, ensuring that the scene is correctly saved to local storage and retrieved on redirect. I also made some minor tweaks to other pages such as the editor.
• What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? User login flow was difficult. There was a lot of bugs and edge cases that needed to be worked out. Specifically with serialization and deserialization and weird stuff happening w/ state updates being batched and asynchronous.
• What you would do next if you were continuing with the project work? There's so much to do! check out the readme! I think the main thing right now is to work on our login authentication and security, and build out the social aspects of the website.

[jlacsamana]

Jacob Lacsamana JL

• What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)? I worked on implementing local editor saving and integrated that with the user login flow from the editor. I also worked on repairing and cleaning up the redux store implementation, restoring user information management capability. I also worked to implement the visual cues for signifying when a scene is successfully saved or not.

• What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? Major bugs that happened primarily as a result of certain 3rd party libraries we used behaving very strangely. They were also rather difficult to fix because of the lack of adequate documentation.

• What you would do next if you were continuing with the project work? I would work on expanding the functionality of the users page and improving the editor with even more controls and graphical interface reworks. Beyond that, I would continue working on the goals defined in the readme.

[sl-81]

Shiyu Li - SL

1. I worked on refactoring some of the editor code, including the bottom buttons because it made more sense to have them available on both shapes editor and scene editor. I also worked on final styling changes of the editor (eg highlighting tabs when selected).
2. The most challenging issue for me is to maintain certain CSS attributes we want while refactoring frontend code. It was also tough to get things to look exactly the way we wanted after a component has been moved out of its parent component and we wanted to add additional styling to it
3. We have a lot of things planned. For me the priority would be to fix the bugs regarding our login authentication and ensure that our login in fully secure, afterwards we might introduce a thumbs up function and have the top works show up in our hall of fame!