October 2019 Planning

[jnm2377]

Timeline

• September 2nd, 2019: Start release cycle
• September 27th, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
• September 30th - October 4th, 2019: Release Candidate cuts and smoke tests
• October 8th, 2019: Release, Endgame done

Projects

1. Community Contribution

Squad

• @chrisconnors-ibm (lead), @jeanservaas , @aledavila , @jnm2377, @joshblack

Primary goals

• Nick Hahn's Summit (late September)
• Alignment, validation, technical point of view, but no design action
• Operational CLA (Code of conduct?) needs to go up on the site (Need content review)

Stretch goals

• TBD

Deferred goals

• High fidelity designs for community contribution experience on Carbon site

2. Support

Squad

• @tw15egan, @alisonjoseph, @mattrosno, @shinytoyrobots

3. Theming

Squad

• @joshblack (lead), @emyarod

Primary goals

• Enable theming through CSS Custom Properties behind a feature flag
• Code up rules and constraints for how tokens are used together, for example icon size with type
• Consolidate all theme-able properties into one map

Stretch goals

• Pull out styles into a styles package

Deferred goals

4. Accessibility

Squad

• @dakahn (lead), @aledavila, @abbeyhrt, @asudoh

Primary goals

• clear high and medium priority issues in a11y project backlog
• general a11y team advocacy and training throughout the project

Stretch goals

• per component accessibility documentation
• system to track/monitor turnaround time on a11y issues

Deferred goals

• TBD

5. Brand/website

Squad

• @vpicone (lead), @jnm2377

Primary goals

• Native, client side search (theme)
• Improved table component (theme)
• Vertical rythem/spacing normalization (theme)
• No Vimeo video?

Stretch goals

• Gated/protected paths (need design/ux)
• Enhanced Image Gallery #237

Deferred goals

• Alternative data source

6. Website

Squad

• @janchild (lead), @jeanservaas (lead) @alisonjoseph, @aagonzales, @connor-leech, @laurenmrice, @shixiedesign, @designertyler, @jillianhowarth

Primary goals

Content:

• Content website content audit and strategy (Jan)
  -- navigation explorations
  -- design systems high-level audits of content covered and content approaches
  -- write up the plan
• Support audit
  -- create data table of support questions and answers
  -- look for trends and identify areas requiring future work
  -- identify areas where existing content in answers can be re-used to supplement existing guidance
• Charts page content support (Connor) Content support for new Charts section carbon-website#346
• Axure tool page up on site (Connor)

Patterns:

• Triage Patterns by quality and importance (Tyler, Jan, Jeannie) Pattern audit and prioritization carbon-website#189
• Patterns status on Overview page (cupcake with no icing version) (Connor) experimental(patterns): Create cupcake status overview carbon-website#344
• Patterns contribution guidance enhancements plus MDX template for contribution content (Connor and Jan) [contribution] Create patterns contribution guidance plus MDX template carbon-website#345
• Cloud Integrations Patterns up on site [contribution] Edit and review pattern contribution PRs carbon-website#87 (Connor)

Layout:

• Layout page code tab; reorganize and skin Josh's grid demo and incorporate layout guidance (Jeannie, dev resource TBD)

Components:

• Explore theme / variant switcher component display window (Anna)
• Comparative component usage guidance audits (Jillian)
  -- create a template for component guidance
  -- map current content against template to find shortcomings

Charts:

• Charts pages scope [Data viz] Scope work and draft IA for website carbon-website#208
• Charts pages work tracking [Data vis] Work tracking carbon-website#239

Stretch goals

• Replace CarbonDocs with mardkown/mdx
• Elements docs on website
• Sass docs on website
• MVP of integrated component page using Jillian's template (Anna)
• Wires and prototyping tertiary / on-page nav for Carbon site to better accommodate contribution vs. placing everything in 'Experimental' (Jan and Scott)

Deferred goals

• Use react instead of Vanilla in code examples
• Production guidelines to accompany mdx guidance

7. Tooling

Squad

• @shixiedesign (lead), @aagonzales, @laurenmrice

Primary goals

• shipping color palette V2 (Shixie) See [Colors] V2 palette October delivery work tracking #3904 for details

• IDL kit

  • Completion / clean-up of any bugs from plugin (Lauren)
  • Add pictograms when ready from dev (Lauren)

• Carbon kit get library swap from the new IDL and library kits (Lauren leads, Anna support)(Jillian to learn structure of kits)

Stretch goals

• TBD

Deferred goals

• TBD

8. Components

Squad

• @laurenmrice (lead), @asudoh

Primary goals

• Feature enhancements (Lauren leads)
  • Determine priority

Stretch goals

• Spec'ing

Deferred goals

• TBD

[joshblack]

Do we not have any designers on theming @chrisconnors-ibm @shinytoyrobots ?

[shixiedesign]

And we need a developer on website! Someone help me put Charts on pages please 🙏 @chrisconnors-ibm @shinytoyrobots

[alisonjoseph]

I'm on website this cycle @shixiedesign!