Project Description: Improve the Polling System

[jportela]

Here's the Project Description section of my proposal. You are very welcome to share your thoughts on this:

Project Description: Improving the Poll System

The goal of this project is to improve the Poll System, a paid-user enhancement in Dreamwidth. The improvements should focus on the User Controls/Experience, by doing a usability study and requirements specification for new features, and then implement the fixes/features needed. Some issues are already discussed in Bugzilla, and should be implemented in the early stages of GSOC, while doing the usability study and requirements specification.

 

The usability study should be a simple study, made with the help of the community. I will try to get some friends/relatives of mine to do some tasks on the Poll system (with no previous knowledge how it works) and have them tell what they are thinking and observe what they are trying to do. Maybe we can get the community to do this, by delivering some guide scripts and have them record the conversation.

 

The requirement specification of new features should be an informal specification of features existing poll users want to have. Some of them are already documented in Bugzilla, but if the project advances, then I think we can ask people for more features and help to document them.

 

So, during the whole GSOC I should be solving issues as they appear in the Bugzilla Polls section.

 

In parallel, a usability study and requirement specification of new features should be done to "enrich" the Bugzilla. This issues can be solved on parallel during GSOC, or may be documented for reference to solve post GSOC. 

 

Some issues that are already documented that are good candidates for me to solve since day 1:

 

 

• Bug 791 - Polls have poor semantic styling (and are ugly)
• Bug 28 - Download CSV of poll results
• Bug 1694 - More control for polls
• Bug 1756 - "Tick N boxes" poll question option
• Bug 1590 - AJAXify polls
• Bug 1397 - Add option to collapse poll display
• Bug 1106 - Ajaxify poll creator
• Bug 703 - English strip /tools/fck_poll.bml
• Bug 1861 - Poll answer redirection in the same style
• Bug 2191 - Manage Polls page

 

 

Notice of Dreamhack downtime!

[sophie]

[edit 2010-04-07, 8:12pm: Okay, things should be good to go now. I haven't yet upgraded the RAM, but we're going to see how things are in a week or so.]

Hi all,

SliceHost will be performing some maintenance on the host server where the Dreamhack box resides at 11pm CDT today, April 6. (that's 4:00am on April 7 for GMT)

It shouldn't take more than half an hour, but as with any maintenance they don't know precisely.

I'm going to see if I can take the opportunity to up the memory on the box shortly afterwards, when I wake up. So there'll probably be a period of 3-5 hours in between where the box will be up again before it goes back down for the RAM upgrade. I'll edit this post when it's all clear to use again :D

GSoC 2010: Desktop client Project (Part 2)

[toonsuperlove]

Hello, everyone

Sorry for my invisible so long~~~

In this time I have got a lot thing to do with ( final exam, take flight , laptop broke) and also

I and my team have pass in Imagine Cup 2010: in Embedded Development to round 2 !

So, this 2 job (Imagine Cup + GSoC) will take me this whole summer~~

but dont worry, I can manage it !

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Oops! I almost forgot an important thing

I have finish (almost) final GSoC proposal and I have list my feature in my blog you can go and see here!

toonsuperlove.dreamwidth.org

If anybody has a doubt or want some more, dont wait ! you can throw to me ! (and I will dodge)

Thanks