[JEP-14] - Public Jenkins Roadmap

[oleg-nenashev]

See the JEP for motivation and specification: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/14

Current draft:

[fqueiruga]

I suggest refactoring the JS to follow some good practices. Something like:

(function () {
    function createRoadmapCategory(...) {...}
    function fetchRoadmap(...) {...}

    // Better to use jQuery this way. using the $(function) is unreliable.
    $(document).ready(function );
})()

[oleg-nenashev]

@fqueiruga I am not a JavaScript expert, and TBH I do not know best JavaScript practices. If you are willing to submit a pull request against my branch, I will be happy to integrate the suggested changes

[fqueiruga]

I'll try to do it later today

[zbynek]

I know the old roadmap was done this way:
7267dd2#diff-4d70295e9d7e65e3fac755da4e92f23c

and I don't want to discourage @fqueiruga from writing nicer JS for this, but why is it JS in the first place? Couldn't we build the page using haml at build time? It would be definitely better for SEO. / page loading speed.

[oleg-nenashev]

I updated the layout to use HAML instead of Javascript, YAML is now also used as a data storage. Feedback is welcome!

P.S: I know that the UI looks worse now, to be improved

[tracymiranda]

cool!

[MarkEWaite]

Could we consider using the background color from the "Future" for the "Current" cells so that the higher contrast background is on the current projects? I find it much more difficult to read the "Current" column than the "Future" column because of the lower contrast difference between "Current" text and "Current" background.

The background color behind the "Future" column makes the text very easy for me to read.

[oleg-nenashev]

I am not sure colors add much benefits at all. Maybe we could reserve them for a second-level categorization instead of highlighting statuses

[markjacksonfishing]

This is excellent and awesome @oleg-nenashev. Thank you for this

[oleg-nenashev]

@MarkEWaite

Could we consider using the background color from the "Future" for the "Current" cells so that the higher contrast background is on the current projects? I find it much more difficult to read the "Current" column than the "Future" column because of the lower contrast difference between "Current" text and "Current" background. The background color behind the "Future" column makes the text very easy for me to read.

I agree with you, but I suggest to do it in a follow-up pull request. This roadmap is not final anyway, but I would like to get something posted to work on that incrementally