Hey all, so TOPP may be able to send a great designer to Italy, to help
with the interaction and web design of a new web admin tool. I thought
this might be a good idea, to have him spec out and build html for the
new admin interface.
I had been thinking we'd just replace the backend UI technology during
the sprint, and do the actual UI rewrite later. But my thought on that
was that 1.7.0 would replace the UI technology and get stable, and then
2.0 would be the new UI. But since 1.7.0 is just going to be the config
stuff, and hopefully rest interfaces, this means that it might be
advantageous to do the UI tech replacement at the same time as the UI
rewrite. Because I think it'd just slow us down a lot to fully
stabilize as 1.8.0.
My other thought is that when replacing the UI with a new technology
we'll probably want to add in at least some of the little UI
improvements that Wicket offers. And then we'll probably be tempted to
fix the most egregious errors of the current UI, and UI improvements
will creep in, but won't be driven by a designer, and we'll end up
replicating work. I guess I'm also not convinced that it's going to
take 4 people 5 days to replace the UI tech. And then we'll either just
go to bug fixing, or do our own little ui improvements. And while we're
all together I'd prefer to more than just bug fixes. Also it'd be a lot
better to write tests, like functional tests perhaps with Selenium,
against what will be the UI.
So my thought was that the designer could work in parallel with the
development work, and get a bit of stability with the UI tech
replacement, but start to move on to the UI html and interaction design
replacement at the end of the week. And if we don't get all the way
there we'll at least be ready. And our designer can get some real good
exposure to geo stuff.
But these are just some ideas I've been thinking about. If we feel it's
going to be a waste to have him there then we don't have to send him -
like we should feel it's a desired thing, since it is going to cost TOPP
a good bit. So what do people think?
Oh, and behind all this is a desire of mine to get some sort of
'GeoServer 2.0' by foss4g, with feature freeze by mid-august at the
latest. But I don't want to set a super ambitious goal, so if we want
to cut things we should figure that out.
Chris
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