Searchable Linkable Open Public Indexed (SLOPI) communication ("sloppy") for design teams

[pdurbin (Philip Durbin)]

How do design teams for open source projects communicate what’s going on this week or this month?

The Dataverse design team has a Trello board for to communicate what’s “in flight” at https://trello.com/b/ySoeAeCc/dataverse-ui-ux-design

As of this writing, cards advance across this board in the following order:

1. Backlog
2. Discovery
3. UX & UI Design
4. Design Development and QA
5. Done

Here’s a screenshot to give you an idea of what I’m talking about:

Do other projects have something similar?

I’m holding up the Dataverse Trello board as an example of Searchable Linkable Open Public Indexed (SLOPI) communication. I pronounce it “sloppy” and in a spreadsheet linked from https://github.com/good-labs/slopi-communication/issues/2 I’m attempting to gather other examples.

XWiki has a page at http://design.xwiki.org and if you click “Status” you can filter by “Active” which is sort of what I mean. What’s active? What is the design team working on right now? Or will be working on next week? That’s what I’m wondering. Here’s a screenshot.

Nextcloud has a page at https://nextcloud.com/design/ and suggests checking out the design label on GitHub.

Again, I’m particularly interested in communication, about how various teams for an open source project communicates what they’re working on that month and how it’s going. I hope this makes sense! Please check out my spreadsheet and that new repo for the SLOPI idea in general! Thanks!

[jdittrich (Jdittrich (he|they))]

The closet my team has is the research section in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness

But since we do not always have ongoing projects, the “Current” section is also often empty.

Since we embedded our designers recently into product teams, their mode of reporting is now the same as the different product teams, mainly via phabricator (which is sadly rather dev-focussed)