Quick update on Hubs development / roadmap

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi,

Sayan, Aurelien, Paul, and I had a quick chat in BlueJeans this morning. We talked about how we'll work on Hubs now that Flock is over and we need a new milestone.

Basically, we're setting a mid-October (looks like October 13) milestone to have something to show for the two upcoming FUDcons in October. For our October milestone, here's the features we've planned to work on:

1) Zanata support

Zanata is releasing a new version in November, but we've been in contact with Alex from that team and he said he will provide us with sample data to start developing against while they work on creating the webhooks we need to get that data. So we could do a release in October that has the support (and wait for the November Zanata release to turn it on.) Specifics of what widgets Zanata support would entail for the October release is TBD. (Paul is reaching out to find out if the webhooks we need are planned for the Nov release)

2) IRC integration

We'd like to have some IRC features available in the October release. There were some setbacks with material UI but Sayan is working through it.

3) Badge support

Sayan already has a PR ready for tahrir (I believe) to add paths to badges; once that gets merged he can start working on the widget for hubs.

4) Hyperkitty support

Hyperkitty needs some new API methods to provide full post content and metadata about replies / etc. Right now the migration off of Persona is top priority as Mozilla is shutting down Persona in September, but after that Aurelien can work on this. It shouldn't be super complicated. Once completed, Hyperkitty new thread posts will appear in the feed widget and if new replies are received to the thread, it'll bounce the thread to the top of the feed widget again.

5) Plusplus widget

Aurelien has the backend done but it needs testing and it needs the widget to be created.

This seems like a good set of features to me. :)

We're going to have a triage meeting in IRC tomorrow at 1300 UTC (EDT 0900) in #fedora-hubs for anyone who wants to attend (you are more than welcome, please come!) We'll go through our ticket queue with the above milestones in mind and prioritize / tag our tickets accordingly.

Cheers,
~m