[Anubad] L10n Dashboard

[priyanka nag]

Hey Sayak,
If you need help documenting the project, I will be more than willing to
help you. I won't say I can do it entirely alone, but I can surely help you
in drafting it.


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Sayak Sarkar <sayak.bugsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > sankarshan mukhopadhyay
> > <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
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