Re: [kernelci-members] KernelCI working group: Web Dashboard

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> Last year's KernelCI Community Survey[1] showed the importance of
> having a good web dashboard.  About 70% of respondents would use
> one if it provided the information they needed efficiently.
> While other things are arguably even more important, such as
> testing patches from mailing lists, replying to stable reviews
> and sending email reports directly to contributors in a "natural"
> workflow, the web dashboard has been a sticking point for a
> while.
> 
> There have been several attempts at solving this problem, using
> Elastic Stack and Grafana among other things, but there isn't a
> single framework able to directly provide an off-the-shelf
> solution to the community's needs.  In fact, the first issue is
> the lack of understanding of these needs: who wants to use the
> web dashboard, and how?  Then, how does one translate those needs
> into a user interface?  Doing this requires skills that engineers
> who regularly contribute to KernelCI typically don't have.  As
> such, a dedicated working group is being created in order to fill
> this gap.
> 
> The aim is to coordinate efforts and try to follow best practices
> to make steady progress and avoid repeating the same mistakes.
> Most likely, we will need some help from proper web developers
> who aren't part of the usual KernelCI community.  This may be
> facilitated by the KernelCI LF project budget if approved by the
> governing board.
> 
> In order to get started, we would need to have maybe 3 to 5
> people available to focus on this.  It doesn't necessarily mean a
> lot of hours spent but actions to be carried out on a daily or
> weekly basis.  So far we have Gustavo Padovan as our new KernelCI
> Project Manager and a few people have expressed interest but we
> still need formal confirmation.
> 
> 
> Here's a GitHub project dedicated to the new web dashboard:
> 
>   https://github.com/orgs/kernelci/projects/4
> 
> I've created a couple of issues to get started about user
> stories, and some initial milestones as a basic skeleton:
> 
>   https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-project/milestones
> 
> 
> This is ultimately a community-driven effort to address the needs
> of the kernel community.  Please share any thoughts you may have
> on this, whether you want to add some user stories, share some
> expertise, be officially in the working group or take part in
> this effort in any other way.

How do we "join" the working group?  I'm willing to help out from the
"user who will use this a lot and complain about things that do not
work well" point of view :)

thanks,

greg k-h