Improving Discussion Threads and UI/UX of Apache Allura
- Mentors
- Heith, Dave Brondsema
- Organization
- Apache Software Foundation
Improving Discussion Threads and UI/UX of Apache Allura
Goals
- Improve Discussion Threads (ForgeDiscussion)
- Improve landing page on installation and general UI improvements and UX bug fixes (Allura)
- Implementing a Mobile Web View similar to GitHub
Brief Points
- Implement async loading of comments and allow them to be paginated.
- Improve emails sent out by the platform, look into how to integrate them with email clients like done by GitHub.
- Improve viewing attachments, allow embedding some types of attachments. Preview feature.
- Extend the models in the threads to allow voting(express +1, LGTM etc.) on individual comments. Add support for emoji.
- Improve the landing page of Forge.
- Implement a separate Mobile Web View, this involves extending the API and creating new views specifically for mobile web browsers.