[Planning] Improving Education Related Usability and Functionality Project (Outreachy)

[TildaDares]

This issue lists a breakdown of my project tasks. There's still a lot to be added but I'll start with these first.

My Outreachy proposal

• Discussion and Q&A of Outreachy + GSoC ideas 2021 #9257

Tasks

• Write unit test for method that finds user's drafts (Add drafts link to profile page #9837)
• Add listing of drafts posts on profile page (Add drafts link to profile page #9837)
• Display drafts tab in author's page ([Discussion] Add Listing of Draft Posts to Profile Pages #9660)
• Create FTO issue to replace 'with' with comma in co-authored posts (Separate co-author names with comma #9682)
• Write unit test for method that checks if a tag is a location tag ([Discussion] Add Bootstrap Tooltips to Location Tags #9732)
• Add bootstrap tooltips explaining longitude and latitude tags ([Discussion] Add Bootstrap Tooltips to Location Tags #9732)
• Implement design for co-authored posts page ([Discussion] Refine design of co-authored posts on profile pages #9798)
• Create FTOs for moving the new v2 dashboard redesign to be the new dashboard (New Dashboard Transition Tasks #9277)
• Add table of contents on wiki/markdown pages (Add table of contents under an icon for wiki/Markdown pages, like GitHub does now! #9512)
• Cache prefetched names for mentions either daily or weekly ([Discussion] Autocompletion in comment boxes #9755)
• Intermix prefetched usernames and API responses, de-duplicating and client side filtering for alphanumeric match (intermix prefetched usernames and API responses, de-duplicating and c… #9820)

FTOs

• Separate co-author names with comma #9682
• Alert box overlapping table of contents menu in wikis #9727
• Format _tags.html.erb #9754
• Add translation to _tags.html.erb #9767
• Change limit and cache expiration date on recently active users query #9796
• Hide arrow in wiki menu button #9928

I won't be including the design discussions in my planning.
Also more tasks will be included from this milestone

[jywarren]

Nice! i linked the milestone and see this issue in its description. Great work!

[Tlazypanda]

@TildaDares Awesome first draft 🎊 And I see the FTOs 👀 amazing!

[TildaDares]

• figure out how to intermix prefetched usernames and API responses, de-duplicating and client-side filtering for alphanumeric match

@RuthNjeri Can you break this down for me? It's mentioned in the project description.

[jywarren]

Hi @TildaDares -- i think i wrote this line 😅

What i was thinking was, if we fetch some recently used (we'll call them "prioritized") usernames and we want them to float to the top of the results list for convenience, we don't want them to later show up a 2nd time further down the list. So this has a few parts:

1. figure out how to blend the two lists, both as a matter of API (do we do this on the client side or the server side? pros/cons of each?)
2. Do we filter out the prioritized results based on the user input? i.e. how and where do we filter out prioritized usernames which don't match the currently typed-in string. Like if I type in "warr" it should only really show my own username warren not cess, for example, even if she's in the prioritized list.
3. how do we display them? I believe Bootstrap has a divider element we can use, but we'll have to look a little closer at the docs. Do we show a little "recently active" label somehow? Are we currently using a Bootstrap style? For typeaheads in search boxes, we use: https://github.com/bassjobsen/Bootstrap-3-Typeahead -- maybe we should try to match the style? Not sure, but anyways we could start very simple so this one could be broken out and worked on later.
4. how do we deduplicate -- i.e. remove later duplicate appearances of one of our prioritized usernames?

[jywarren]

Hope that helps!!!

[jywarren]

Hi, Tilda - noticing that you are almost done with your list, here, would you be interested in some additional tasks? Just whatever may interest you -- i'm happy to dig for some and you can tell me what you like?

#956 is one that has to do with refactoring out old code. But maybe it doesn't seem very interesting to you. Let me think on it a bit but do tell me if you're interested in some additional ones!

[jywarren]

I ended up taking care of the new dashboard issues myself, just to do them all in one PR! Updated this list to show. Thank you!!!