[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 ideas list

[Máirín Duffy]

On 02/06/2014 09:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Hi, Máirín!  Good to see you here!

Thanks :) Long time lurker :)

> I'm not sure what you mean by "design".  Something like graphic design
> via CSS alone doesn't fly.  It has to come with an implementation that
> is aimed to be of high enough quality to be integrated.

By UX design I don't mean simply surface aesthetics, but designing the 
interactions and workflows for new features and cleaning up what's 
there, scoping out new features (e.g., right now Karen and I are working 
out whether or not users should be able to follow categories in 
Hyperkitty like they can follow tags, walking through what a user might 
want to do based on how mailing lists may be set up, and the mechanisms 
we could add to allow the feature.)

So I was actually envisioning an internship similar to what my current 
Hyperkitty OPW program intern is doing some UX design work (as described 
above) but also creating static HTML pages of the new pages, modifying 
existing screens to mobile friendly / responsive by upgrading it to the 
latest Bootstrap and making it more Bootstrap-compliant (it was a little 
messy before she fixed it up.)

So she is doing some CSS yeah, but also javascript and she's modifying 
stuff in django too for the Bootstrap upgrade. Testing how well it works 
across various mobile formats. In addition to creating UX mockups, etc.

> If what you mean is the kind of stuff that is involved in Postorius
> and Shanu Salunke's "Mailman Interface" (a GSoC project for Systers
> last year), yes, that passes muster.

While I've used Postorius and am familiar with it, I'm not familiar with 
Shanu's internship work. How do you think what I'm proposing above compares?

~m