Hi all, Hi TDF treasurers,
The Document Foundation has a grant request page for some time now:
http://www.documentfoundation.org/grant-request/
to allow members of the Docuemnt Foundation to actively make suggestions on
projects and efforts that should be funded to bring LibreOffice forward.
The Board of the Document Foundation did of course collect and approve projects
for LibreOffice before, but going ahead we will try to make public as much
proposals for funding as possible even before approval for transparency.
One of the older preexisting proposals still under consideration is a Dashboard
for the LibreOffice project that shows what is going on in all parts of the
project.
I have tried to fill this proposal with life by bringing it in the form
expected by the grant-proposals page. See below for the full text of the
proposal. Along with this mail, I have send this grant request to
treasu...@documentfoundation.org as suggested on the grant-request webpage.
If you are member of TDF supporting this project, think it should be funded and
most importantly want to help out in either overseeing the tender or otherwise
getting it executed, please make yourself heard: Your help will be appreciated.
Note as of now, this is just a _proposal_ and a draft: It hasnt been approved
by the Board to receive any funding yet. However, given the vast amount of
regular data going towards LibreOffice contributors (in development alone:
tinderbox status, gerrit submissions, cppcheck updates, coverity updates, lcov
updates to name a few) personally I think this is getting more important every
day. The Board of the Document Foundation will have to weight its impact
against a lot of other proposals -- many of them excellent -- in the next
'budgeting round'.
Best,
Bjoern
Grant request/proposal follows below:
== grant details ==
Grant Proposal:
Creating a LibreOffice community and developer dashboard (All about
LibreOffice)
a cost estimate has been shared with the Board of the Document Foundation
ini private for budget approval and reservation of funds
Grant objective:
Create a webpage showing latest activity, summaries and trends of the
LibreOffice project in all areas: development, qa, user-to-user support etc.
The webpage should be easily extensible for developers providing scripts
analysing current and historic data from various project infrastructure.
Grant size: to be tendered
Grant beneficiaries: tender contractor
Grant follow-up: Frameworks, languages and tools used should be popular and
widely used to allow the result to be community maintained and sustained after
initial development. Extensibility should allow developers to refine the
dashboard without deep insight in the used frameworks and tools. Blog posts
should advertize the dashboard to the LibreOffice community and invite
contributions.
=== User stories ===
As a LibreOffice community member, I want to be able to find out about the
latest events and actions happening in the project today presented on a
webpage. Updates do not need to be real-time, but delays should not be bigger
than 1-2 hours.
As a LibreOffice community member, I want to be able to find out about the
latest events and actions happening in the project since my last visit
presented as a newsfeed (RSS/Atom) for my reader.
As a LibreOffice community member, I want to be able to create a newsfeed that
filters for interest of specific interest for me.
As a LibreOffice community member, I want to be able to query filtered on if an
event creates or resolves an action item for a specific subproject. Here are
some examples based on Bugzilla: regression filed would be qa-task-created (need
confirmation/triage), regression triaged/moved to NEW (qa-task-resolved,
dev-task-created), regression fixed (dev-task-resolved).
As a designer, I want to be able to improve layout and looks of the dashboard
with just basic knowledge on coding.
As a designer, I want to be able to create subpages that present filtered
information of interest to a specific subproject e.g. events and actions of
interest for development, of interest for QA etc.
As a programmer, I want to be able to feed events and actions happening on any
system of the project to be displayed to the system simply by adding a script
generating a RSS/Atom newsfeed to an existing repository using only existing
credentials (gerrit account). At least all common *nix script languages
(Python, Perl, Ruby, PHO) should be supported, even C/C++/Haskell/Ocaml should
be possible unless there are overwhelming troubles.
As a programmer, I want to be able supply summaries and aggregate data by
querying for existing events in the system and simply parsing a RSS/Atom
newsfeed. I want to be able to send these summaries as an event just like
others.
As a programmer, I want to associate events send to the system with tags
because that allows to query for specific types of events either for summaries
or for presentation on subproject pages.
As a
