2017-02-18 Dev meeting

Time 19:00

Agenda

A lot of changes merged, Release 2 upcoming.

Everybody's happy?

Tilmann: I am

Lars: YES!
chandi: me too 

Using the established hierarchy (mostly group).

Some dependencies were missing, would be cool to have template tests to find missing dependencies (missing components)

Ideas?

• Nick: Ask Kristijan if he would like to help us

• Lars: Introduction page to the tool, showing off its features

• Nick: video on the introduction page, ask around in yunity

• Tilmann: team page to gain users' trust

• Nick: add a dev blog, with translation feature (blog.foodsaving.world, with a link on the main page)

Groups that we are in contact with: Existing initiatives

Nick wrote a proposal: https://slack-files.com/T0B6WCFM5-F481PUPC7-7bf55ef119

Lars: Like the idea of a buddy system a lot for newcomers

Nick: having a regular check-in could be useful

Tilmann: we could use the responsibilities to make them public in the planned team page

Medium and long-term planning: what features do we want in future? How do we add them?

• place for long discussion

• place for realtime discussion

• decision making

• knowledge base

• publications

• data archive

• member management

Method 1: code everything ourselves, aided by libraries: unified look, tailored to our needs

Method 2: use existing tools, add connections/integrations: quick results, bigger ecosystem

Discussion?

→ needs a lot more research

Upcoming additions/changes: User Requirements

• Setup separate deployment branch for the frontend repository

• Modify pickup dates/series (frontend-only)

• Public map of all groups (frontend-only)

• Show historic pickup dates (frontend-only, but could be made better in backend)

• Accepting a legal agreement

• Comment field for pickup dates (for duration, distribution point, mode of transportation for pickup ...)

• Feedback for historic pickup dates (e.g. amount of saved food)

• Track changes and show history (revisions) of user-defined fields to prevent abuse & accidents

• Conversations between users and groups

• Enable login via Facebook account (postponed)

• Food sharing: food baskets, share points

• Sharing of things: text+image with a tag system

• Statistics (amount of saved food, number of pickups)

• Trustworthiness rating for users

• Undo functionality for changes

• Introduction/trial pickups

• Mail notifications

• Facebook notifications

• Discussion forum for groups

• Group admins

• Work teams for groups

• more login options (Google, GitHub, Slack, ...)

• Native App for Android and iOS

• Deploying Pull-Request branches to some subdomain

Smaller(-ish) changes

• search-options for storeList / memberList / joinGroup

• not capitalizing name & password fields