Redesign 2012

For tracking deployment plans. In tracker see redesign product.

Summary of milestones

• Finish templates
  • Create mockups for ideas proposed weekend of 1 Sep 2012
  • Update JS and CSS
  • testing + IE support for any new pieces of templates.
  • See action items for other adjustments.
• Create a new wordpress theme
  • And smarty templates
• Test
  • Make content changes, fix bugs, track what content changes will be necessary at deployment.
  • Set up a test community group so people can join/leave/publish. Leave other groups in place but disable join for those groups.
  • Get community council review of test instance.
• Public review
  • TPAC 2012 and public announcement (along with other changes, policies proposals, metrics). Call for bugs.
• Deployment
  • Content adjustments
  • Announcement
• Performance improvements
  • improve loading of pages with lots of images (lazy loading).
• Mobile-friendly improvements

Calendar

September

• 6:
  • Sorin to upload known static templates
• 14:
  • Jean-Gui (with TomG?) to begin to code of filtering and sorting for reports, participants, groups (on static versions of pages).
• 21:
  • Sorin to upload new templates
  • Jean-Gui to confirm filtering and sorting working.

October

• 5:
  • Test new account creation work-flow (action 34)
  • Test and debug internally (including cross-browser)
  • Create a test CG
• 15:
  • Sorin to upload Wordpress theme (including login modal window), smarty templates, symfony templates
  • Solicit Community Council review of test CG (using scenarios we write up)
• 22
  • Dom reviews templates (css, html)
• 29:
  • During TPAC 2012 (to 2 Nov) announce plan for new styles, 4-week review and testing.
  • Conduct some user testing (e.g., Sorin in Montreal, Ian in Chicago)

November

• 29
  • Deployment
• 30
  • Testing

December

• 3
  • Announce publicly

Pages

System

• CG/BG home
• About
• FAQ
• tools
• comparison
• goals
• generic new page (example). Has comments.
• Individual blog pages (example)

Accounts

• get account
• forgot password
• change password

List of groups

• current groups
• proposed groups
• past groups

Group home

• home example group home
• participants example group participants
• join example join
• leave example leave

Policies

• process
• summary
• cla
• cla deed
• FSA
• FSA deed
• individual requests

BGs

• fees
• participation agreement

Reports

• Reports home
• Each group home page has a reports block
• Publish (available to chairs)
• List of FSA commitments (per spec)
• Make a commitment form (per spec)

Notes on template deployment

• Wordpress theme will be brand new, rather than overwriting the old one. It will be in WWW/community/src/templates/wordpress/cgbg2012.
• Smarty templates will also have their own directory: WWW/community/src/templates/smarty/cgbg2012.
• I haven't looked at Symfony templates yet, but I think we can do something similar and just change the symlink on cg server.
• Making Wordpress use new Smarty templates should be easy: it's only a matter of changing a configuration in wp-config.php.