Ticket/Issue Tracker

[Collin Anderson]

A few years ago I realized I really liked the UI of Trello.com, so I tried creating a trello-style view of django tickets:

https://djello.collinand.org/ (beware, I'm not a designer :)

It's basically just 100 lines of JS and a little CSS. It's still my go to for finding tickets.

I thought I'd share that as an idea for how to improve find-ability.

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From: Tom Forbes
Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Widening participation (Thoughts from DjangoCon)

How much of this would you attribute to the current ticketing system itself, rather than tickets being tagged appropriately?

I know when I started contributing I found trac to be pretty intimidating in terms of complexity, especially the search. I still prefer to use the 'Search Trac' field in the root code.djangoproject.com page than fiddle with the myriad of options and drop downs in the browse tickets section.

If we think of getting new people onboard as a conversion funnel we need to stop dropoff as much as possible, and that extends to the UI of the ticket tracker as well I believe.

Tom

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, 22:43 Ian Foote wrote:

Hi Carlton,

I've had similar thoughts sitting in the back of my mind for at least a couple of months, so thank you for sharing this. I agree that finding tickets is one of the big problems here, both for new contributors and for sprint leaders. At Pycon UK I took on the role of sprint leader along with Adam Johnson and directing people to appropriate tickets was a definite difficulty. I was also unaware of the django core mentorship list and will be joining that soon. I'm willing to spend some time mentoring a small number of people, life permitting.

Ian

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 14:44, Carlton Gibson wrote:

Hi All. 

OK, so last week I was at DjangoCon US in San Diego. (Thank you if you organised that! Hi! if we met and chatted.) 
I gave a talk ("Your web framework needs you!") inspired by the discussion on the DSF list and the proposal to dissolve Django Core. (Can’t see the DSF list? Join the DSF.)
I was asking for more participation in general, and participation that is more representative of the wider Django community in particular.

There was lots of good input from many people, including (but not, at all, limited to) representatives of groups such Pyladies, DjangoGirls, and so on. 

The recurring themes seem to me to fit into three categories:

1. The importance of mentoring.
2. The difficulty of finding tickets.
3. The importance of sprints.

The rest here is a summary of that. Hopefully it’s useful. 

Finding Tickets

The next thing was that there’s not enough guidance on what to work on. 

The guidance is to look for Easy Pickings. There are ≈1300 accepted open tickets in TRAC. 13 of these are marked Easy Pickings. 

That’s not enough. I think we’re too tight with it (or need another grade). 

There are many tickets which aren’t super hard: I put it that, most of our community solve harder problems every day using Django than most tickets require. 

Yes, they still require time, love, energy, etc — and maybe some mentoring — but it’s not primary research, in the main.

I talked to people who had (at the conference) got the test suite running and such, but been overawed by the (for want of a better phrase) sheer face of issue tracker. 

We would do well to invite people better here. (I don’t have instant solutions.) 

[Dan Davis]

Collin, 

Are you using an inverted index (search engine) behind that for relevance ranking, better word segmentation/stemming/synonyms, and peirformance?

I think that something like that is really needed when the problem is finding stuff.

[Adam Johnson]

Djello is nice, bookmarked!

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