Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:58:45 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [kernelci-members] KernelCI working group: Web Dashboard |
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > Last year's KernelCI Community Survey[1] showed the importance of > having a good web dashboard. About 70% of respondents would use > one if it provided the information they needed efficiently. > While other things are arguably even more important, such as > testing patches from mailing lists, replying to stable reviews > and sending email reports directly to contributors in a "natural" > workflow, the web dashboard has been a sticking point for a > while. > > There have been several attempts at solving this problem, using > Elastic Stack and Grafana among other things, but there isn't a > single framework able to directly provide an off-the-shelf > solution to the community's needs. In fact, the first issue is > the lack of understanding of these needs: who wants to use the > web dashboard, and how? Then, how does one translate those needs > into a user interface? Doing this requires skills that engineers > who regularly contribute to KernelCI typically don't have. As > such, a dedicated working group is being created in order to fill > this gap. > > The aim is to coordinate efforts and try to follow best practices > to make steady progress and avoid repeating the same mistakes. > Most likely, we will need some help from proper web developers > who aren't part of the usual KernelCI community. This may be > facilitated by the KernelCI LF project budget if approved by the > governing board. > > In order to get started, we would need to have maybe 3 to 5 > people available to focus on this. It doesn't necessarily mean a > lot of hours spent but actions to be carried out on a daily or > weekly basis. So far we have Gustavo Padovan as our new KernelCI > Project Manager and a few people have expressed interest but we > still need formal confirmation. > > > Here's a GitHub project dedicated to the new web dashboard: > > https://github.com/orgs/kernelci/projects/4 > > I've created a couple of issues to get started about user > stories, and some initial milestones as a basic skeleton: > > https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-project/milestones > > > This is ultimately a community-driven effort to address the needs > of the kernel community. Please share any thoughts you may have > on this, whether you want to add some user stories, share some > expertise, be officially in the working group or take part in > this effort in any other way.
How do we "join" the working group? I'm willing to help out from the "user who will use this a lot and complain about things that do not work well" point of view :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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