Upcoming Brainstorm improvements

Hi, all

We had a meeting today with Quim and Osku about Maemo Brainstorm, and
here are the notes about it.

Next we'll prioritize the various items and start hacking. Progress
can be monitored in
http://trac.midgard-project.org/browser/branches/ragnaroek/midcom/org.maemo.brainstorm
(yes, this is all happening in the open, so feel free to contribute :-)

We need to get normal Maemo users involved, not just hackers

Difficult to get an overview of what is going on
Activity log view: "there were three solutions, these ideas etc yesterday"
Also RSS feed
This should be the default Brainstorm view
Getting notifications on what is interesting to you:
Mail notifications about comments, votes, solutions to people
voting, proposing solutions etc
Checkbox for "watch this idea" / "unwatch"
Being able to watch a category
New ideas, solutions, status changes
My Brainstorm
Add ideas / solutions you've commented or watched to the My Brainstorm page
Promote the My Brainstorm page

Remove navigation column, use the whole page width
Add categories to the navigation

Clearer CSS for the Solutions
Cut solution text to shorter abstract in listing views (or maybe just
the title)

Allow entering a solution when entering an idea
More clearly label the Idea as a Problem, with separate Solution field

Short text explaining Brainstorm shown on every page (Quim will write it)

Talk integration
RSS feed of new ideas is pulled to t.m.o, Talk thread created for the
idea automatically
We get RSS feed for each Talk thread so we can link to the thread
from the idea (and show 5 latest posts or so)

Sandbox to Under consideration
Remove voting of Solutions from Sandbox
Add voting to ideas in Sandbox
If Idea passes certain checks (has solution, enough votes, etc) move
to Under Consideration automatically

Brainstorm on Community page
Additional box to content area showing something from Brainstorm
Brainstorm on maemo.org frontpage
Under News?

Karma from Brainstorm
You already get karma for voting and commenting
Karma needed for ideas and solutions
Bonus if the idea or solution is implemented

In Bugzilla:
Selected solutions should be marked in an idea
Test that attached images are shown properly
HTML titles to individual pages
New category view showing all ideas regardless of status and Maemo versions
Make Milestone, Category and Status filter pulldowns so you can mix-and-match
Broken RSS feeds?
Show the Idea when creating a Solution
HTML entitize reserved characters in titles

Note: update Brainstorms about Brainstorm

--
Henri Bergius
Nemein - Web Craftsmanship
http://nemein.com

Thank you! Thank you! Those all sound like excellent enhancements!

As usual, I wish these announcements were posted on Talk, but that's just
silly old forum-centric me.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius@nemein.com>wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> We had a meeting today with Quim and Osku about Maemo Brainstorm, and
> here are the notes about it.
>
> Next we'll prioritize the various items and start hacking. Progress
> can be monitored in
>
> http://trac.midgard-project.org/browser/branches/ragnaroek/midcom/org.maemo.brainstorm
> (yes, this is all happening in the open, so feel free to contribute :-)
>
> We need to get normal Maemo users involved, not just hackers
>
> Difficult to get an overview of what is going on
> Activity log view: "there were three solutions, these ideas etc
> yesterday"
> Also RSS feed
> This should be the default Brainstorm view
> Getting notifications on what is interesting to you:
> Mail notifications about comments, votes, solutions to
> people
> voting, proposing solutions etc
> Checkbox for "watch this idea" / "unwatch"
> Being able to watch a category
> New ideas, solutions, status changes
> My Brainstorm
> Add ideas / solutions you've commented or watched to the My
> Brainstorm page
> Promote the My Brainstorm page
>
> Remove navigation column, use the whole page width
> Add categories to the navigation
>
> Clearer CSS for the Solutions
> Cut solution text to shorter abstract in listing views (or maybe
> just
> the title)
>
> Allow entering a solution when entering an idea
> More clearly label the Idea as a Problem, with separate Solution
> field
>
> Short text explaining Brainstorm shown on every page (Quim will write it)
>
> Talk integration
> RSS feed of new ideas is pulled to t.m.o, Talk thread created for
> the
> idea automatically
> We get RSS feed for each Talk thread so we can link to the thread
> from the idea (and show 5 latest posts or so)
>
> Sandbox to Under consideration
> Remove voting of Solutions from Sandbox
> Add voting to ideas in Sandbox
> If Idea passes certain checks (has solution, enough votes, etc) move
> to Under Consideration automatically
>
> Brainstorm on Community page
> Additional box to content area showing something from Brainstorm
> Brainstorm on maemo.org frontpage
> Under News?
>
> Karma from Brainstorm
> You already get karma for voting and commenting
> Karma needed for ideas and solutions
> Bonus if the idea or solution is implemented
>
> In Bugzilla:
> Selected solutions should be marked in an idea
> Test that attached images are shown properly
> HTML titles to individual pages
> New category view showing all ideas regardless of status and Maemo
> versions
> Make Milestone, Category and Status filter pulldowns so you
> can mix-and-match
> Broken RSS feeds?
> Show the Idea when creating a Solution
> HTML entitize reserved characters in titles
>
> Note: update Brainstorms about Brainstorm
>
> --
> Henri Bergius
> Nemein - Web Craftsmanship
> http://nemein.com
>



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