Messages in this thread | | | From | "Gustavo Padovan" <> | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:34:06 +0100 | Subject | Re: [kernelci-members] KernelCI working group: Web Dashboard |
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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.
Regards,
Gustavo
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