Hello folks,
I am Rammanoj, a Google Summer of Code 2019 student for Wikimedia. As part of the program, I am developing a tool to track developer activity on three different platforms: Gerrit, Phabricator and Github. Potential users of this tool will be event organizers, especially scholarship committee reviewers who need developer contribution statistics while reviewing applications for Wikimedia events and juggle between different platforms like Github, Gerrit, Phabricator to view developer activity for deciding on an applicant.
As a first step, I’ve developed some mockups that explain the proposed workflow of the tool: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contraband#Mockups. It would be helpful if you could provide me with feedback to continue further and develop the tool. Please leave your feedback/comments/questions on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Contraband.
You can also keep an eye on the technical updates on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220254.
Thanks & Regards,
Rammanoj
Hi Rammanoj, This looks like a cool project. It will be great to see activity across the various platforms. The interface designs you have look very clean and functional.
Could you explain the meaning of the name, Contraband? That word has a generally negative connotation in US English so I'm curious how it fits the project.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 3:21 PM Rammanoj Potla rammanojpotla1608@gmail.com wrote:
Hello folks,
I am Rammanoj, a Google Summer of Code 2019 student for Wikimedia. As part of the program, I am developing a tool to track developer activity on three different platforms: Gerrit, Phabricator and Github. Potential users of this tool will be event organizers, especially scholarship committee reviewers who need developer contribution statistics while reviewing applications for Wikimedia events and juggle between different platforms like Github, Gerrit, Phabricator to view developer activity for deciding on an applicant.
As a first step, I’ve developed some mockups that explain the proposed workflow of the tool: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contraband#Mockups. It would be helpful if you could provide me with feedback to continue further and develop the tool. Please leave your feedback/comments/questions on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Contraband.
You can also keep an eye on the technical updates on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220254.
Thanks & Regards,
Rammanoj _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hey Alex,
Thanks for going through the project, mockups and providing feedback to us. Coming to the name of the tool "Contraband". My mentor suchakra Sharma helped me in choosing the name. So he can be able to make some more comments about it.
Thanks & Regards, Rammanoj
On Thu 13 Jun, 2019, 9:10 PM Alex Ezell, aezell@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Rammanoj, This looks like a cool project. It will be great to see activity across the various platforms. The interface designs you have look very clean and functional.
Could you explain the meaning of the name, Contraband? That word has a generally negative connotation in US English so I'm curious how it fits the project.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 3:21 PM Rammanoj Potla < rammanojpotla1608@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello folks,
I am Rammanoj, a Google Summer of Code 2019 student for Wikimedia. As
part
of the program, I am developing a tool to track developer activity on
three
different platforms: Gerrit, Phabricator and Github. Potential users of this tool will be event organizers, especially scholarship committee reviewers who need developer contribution statistics while reviewing applications for Wikimedia events and juggle between different platforms like Github, Gerrit, Phabricator to view developer activity for deciding
on
an applicant.
As a first step, I’ve developed some mockups that explain the proposed workflow of the tool: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contraband#Mockups
.
It would be helpful if you could provide me with feedback to continue further and develop the tool. Please leave your
feedback/comments/questions
on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Contraband.
You can also keep an eye on the technical updates on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220254.
Thanks & Regards,
Rammanoj _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Alex Ezell Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hi Folks,
Thanks for your feedback and questions!
Could you explain the meaning of the name, Contraband? That word has a
generally negative connotation in US English so I'm curious how it fits the project.
Alex, the naming was not given much thought frankly. I just tossed an idea around the words Contributor + Analysis and came up with "Contraband" as a playful term. It was more like a working title during initial discussions and it seems it stuck. I understand the negative connotation, but I though since other open source tools have such bold names, maybe this won't be so bad (for example Riot IM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot.im) ;-) We are open to name changes and suggestions. Some new suggestions: Contraption, Contriverse (Contributor universe), WikiDrop (each contribution is a drop in Wikimedia ocean), ContraScope (Scope to view contributions) WikiGauge ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_(instrument)) etc. Keep the ideas flowing. I will let Rammanoj drive this from here!
-- Suchakra Staff Scientist, ShiftLeft Inc.
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