[Anubad] L10n Dashboard

[Sayak Sarkar]

Hi Sankarshan,

Thank your your feedback. I'll be keeping these points in mind while
chalking down a project documentation for the dashboard.

At the moment I'm planning to finish up a basic project documentation based
upon what I have already gathered, and then move on to creating project
milestones which can directly be implemented within the code base.

Will keep you updated as I go about implementing the next steps.

Regards,
Sayak


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Sayak Sarkar <sayak.bugsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Going through all your suggestions the most important thing that came to
> my
> > mind was that I was somehow missing out on the perspective of project
> > maintainers / organizations. I guess it's time I started chalking down a
> > formal project documentation and come up with an architectural model for
> > such a system, before going back to churning out code.
>
> A possible list of users/consumers of your dashboard framework are:
>
> [+] upstream Translation Content Management Systems (T-CMSs) like
> Transifex, Pootle, Zanata etc
> [+] upstream projects themselves like GNOME, KDE, Fedora etc
> [+] Language Team coordinators who would like to do project management
> based on real data
> [+] Language Team translators who can check how progress is happening
> ie. velocity
> [+] Language Team reviewers who can cherry pick content to review
>
> Consider for a moment the dashboard of a car. It provides an
> at-a-glance state of the system. While it is generally useful to the
> passengers, it is mostly useful to the driver and the navigator. In
> this case, one has to figure out which kinds of individuals form those
> roles. Now, a normal car dashboard provides information about how fast
> you are traveling. That is useful information. But, if it were to be
> able to tell you how fast you should travel - that is an excellent
> piece of data. My analogy is trivial, but I wanted to convey the need
> to look at information and present them meaningfully. If a particular
> team has been completing a certain number of strings by a specific
> number of calendar days, how can one make a prediction about when a
> particular release would be complete?
>
> > From what I have gathered so far here are some of the most important
> > high-level requirements that I can think of:-
> >
> >    1. The system should provide a consolidated view for l10n statistics
> >    across projects and provide easy access to individual projects.
> >    2. The system should be capable of data visualization for real time
> data
> >    gathered from multiple sources, to provide enhanced reporting
> capabilities.
> >    3. The dashboard should be a double ended one: i.e. have separate
> views
> >    for organizations/maintainers and individuals.
> >    4. It has to be modularized, so as to separate the view from the
> >    back-end stores.
> >    5. It needs to easily deploy-able to enable individual teams to
> directly
> >    plug it to their own repositories and use it.
>
> This is extremely important. It should be easy-to-install for anyone
> on a reasonably latest release of a distribution that is available on
> VPS/PaaS projects.
>
> >    6. The system has to be easily extendable to allow for easy
> >    modifications, as well as be light, efficient and user friendly.
> >
> > I would like to know about your thoughts on these as well as ask if you
> > think should be any more added requirements for such a system?
> >
> > In terms of development speed for the project, I agree that a project of
> > this scale needs more aggressive goals with quick iterations, however, at
> > the moment there aren't enough contributors to the development efforts
> for
> > the project and most of what is done is primarily by myself during my
> spare
> > time.
>
> I appreciate the fact that you have a basic concept up. This allows
> you to make various routes to what can be the end form.
>
>
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> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
> <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
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