October 2021 meeting notes

2021-10-26

Please see 2021-10-26 weekly discussion on GitHub Discussions.

2021-10-19

Please see 2021-10-19 weekly discussion on GitHub Discussions.

2021-10-15

Topic: Views prototype design review Attendeees: Brent, Ghislaine, Kriti, Pavish, Sean

Action items:

• Need to add full create view flow to the prototype
• Add setting lookup columns to the prototype
• Make sure to add all Figma flows to the prototype from other issues as well
• We need different flows for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in views
  • Perhaps ask the user what type they want
    • They should also be able to modify this later
  • Don’t automatically make mapping tables for one-to-many relationships
• Separate relationships from views
  • When user wants to create a relationship, ask if you want to:
    • link to one record: create a FK in the current table
    • link to multiple records: create a FK in the other (related) tables
    • many to many: create a mapping table
  • Then we can suggest creating a view to show the summary view
  • Views can have summary columns
• Create new design issues and update existing issues for Views
• We’ll close existing design discussions and open new ones
• Set up calls for reviewing future designs as needed (review async first)

Feedback:

• Views should be about specific columns, not a whole table
  • (for some use cases)
• Saving filters, sorts, etc. is also views, so that involves a whole table
• Don’t constrain view creation to just one flow since they serve so many purposes

Improvements to process:

• Be on the same page about the schema we’re working with
  • e.g. we were all modeling track-album-artist differently in our heads, made talking about it difficult
• Define design tickets in terms of user scenarios
  • Also specify functionality and technical constraints

2021-10-12

Please see 2021-10-12 weekly discussion on GitHub Discussions.

2021-10-08

• Kriti’s availability
  • Kriti’s workload has been too heavy, leaving little time for focused work.
  • Initiatives like ‘Comms Assignee’ useful to make workload more manageable.
  • More PR reviews to be delegated to team members. – using the ‘assign’ functionality
• Milestone deadlines
  • All deadlines moved to end of December to reduce bureaucracy, deadlines are mostly for priority.
• Weekly planning
  • Weeks will not be planned in advance, people should just move tasks to active when they need work
• New project walkthrough
  • New GitHub project to start being used internally, public availability pending.
  • New project to eventually replace current projects view.
• UCB design project
  • We’re working with UCB student design class on a project
  • image view plugin design
    • let users view images linked to within Mathesar
• Hiring update and plan
  • Backend interviews ongoing
  • Interviews will happen in parallel with code tasks

2021-10-05

Please see 2021-10-05 weekly planning on GitHub Discussions.