Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:20:31 -0300 | Subject | Re: [kernelci-members] KernelCI working group: Web Dashboard | From | Gustavo Padovan <> |
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On 7/27/21 13:34, Gustavo Padovan wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:58 -03, "Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: >>> Last year's KernelCI Community Survey[1] showed the importance of >>> having a good web dashboard. About 70% of respondents would use >>> one if it provided the information they needed efficiently. >>> While other things are arguably even more important, such as >>> testing patches from mailing lists, replying to stable reviews >>> and sending email reports directly to contributors in a "natural" >>> workflow, the web dashboard has been a sticking point for a >>> while. >>> >>> There have been several attempts at solving this problem, using >>> Elastic Stack and Grafana among other things, but there isn't a >>> single framework able to directly provide an off-the-shelf >>> solution to the community's needs. In fact, the first issue is >>> the lack of understanding of these needs: who wants to use the >>> web dashboard, and how? Then, how does one translate those needs >>> into a user interface? Doing this requires skills that engineers >>> who regularly contribute to KernelCI typically don't have. As >>> such, a dedicated working group is being created in order to fill >>> this gap. >>> >>> The aim is to coordinate efforts and try to follow best practices >>> to make steady progress and avoid repeating the same mistakes. >>> Most likely, we will need some help from proper web developers >>> who aren't part of the usual KernelCI community. This may be >>> facilitated by the KernelCI LF project budget if approved by the >>> governing board. >>> >>> In order to get started, we would need to have maybe 3 to 5 >>> people available to focus on this. It doesn't necessarily mean a >>> lot of hours spent but actions to be carried out on a daily or >>> weekly basis. So far we have Gustavo Padovan as our new KernelCI >>> Project Manager and a few people have expressed interest but we >>> still need formal confirmation. >>> >>> >>> Here's a GitHub project dedicated to the new web dashboard: >>> >>> https://github.com/orgs/kernelci/projects/4 >>> >>> I've created a couple of issues to get started about user >>> stories, and some initial milestones as a basic skeleton: >>> >>> https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-project/milestones >>> >>> >>> This is ultimately a community-driven effort to address the needs >>> of the kernel community. Please share any thoughts you may have >>> on this, whether you want to add some user stories, share some >>> expertise, be officially in the working group or take part in >>> this effort in any other way. >> How do we "join" the working group? I'm willing to help out from the >> "user who will use this a lot and complain about things that do not >> work well" point of view :) > Congratulations! You are now part of the working group. :) For now, anyone that is interested can step up, and maybe in a few weeks we can formalize with those who wants to take on the journey together with us in this working group. > > Based on the replies to this thread I can put together an initial agenda and follow up with the potential times for a kick-off meeting.
Here's a poll with some proposed times for us to schedule the first meeting next week: https://doodle.com/poll/pbhpeu5cbxp49ghz
Please reply to it ASAP.
Regards,
Gustavo
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